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You can use the undocumented all_plugins filter to control what plugins will show up on the “Plugins” page. WordPress applies this filter to the list of all installed plugins just before sorting it into “active”, “inactive”, “update available” and other categories and displaying it to the user. The list of plugins is an array indexed […]

WordPress Console Adds an interactive PHP console (REPL) to the WordPress admin. You can run arbitrary PHP code and access any function, class or variable defined by WordPress or active plugins. Amazing for debugging and exploration. Note: At the time of this writing, the plugin directory listing says this plugin is only “compatible up to […]

Add your hook before or after another hook Sometimes you need to ensure your function will get executed before or after another function that’s attached to the same hook (e.g. to fix a plugin conflict). The most reliable way to do this is to use has_action() to get the priority of the other hook and […]

I had some free time this weekend, so I built an automatically updated list of Top 100 WordPress plugin developers. The rankings are based on the number of times each developers’ plugins have been downloaded from the WordPress.org plugin directory. A short PHP script updates the list several times per day. Check it out. Bonus: Compare […]

If you’re at all familiar with WordPress development, you already know how to remove a normal hook: just call remove_action or remove_filter and pass it the hook name, the name of the hook callback you want to remove and the priority. But what if the callback has no fixed name because it’s an anonymous function […]