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Chances are, you’ve run into this WordPress error at one time or another: That’s a pretty unhelpful error message, isn’t it? Not only does it tell you nothing about what the exact problem is or how it occurred, but it’s also sometimes just plain wrong. Pretty often, it has nothing to do with insufficient permissions. […]

For all your theme testing and plugin development needs, here’s a huge list of WordPress sample content collections and dummy content generators. Export Files See How to import WordPress export files for instructions on how to import the files listed in this section on your site. Theme Unit Test Data from WordPress.org 22 Posts Sticky post […]

If you’re a WordPress developer, this will probably sound familiar: you make a change to  one of your scripts or style sheets, reload the page you’re working on to see the result, and… everything stays the same. Of course, after a moment of confusion, you realise that you didn’t update the $version argument in your […]

As you probably know, you can use the add_menu_page() function to create a top level admin menu for your WordPress plugin or theme. This function allows you to specify a menu icon by passing an image URL as the $icon_url argument. But what if you want to use one of the default admin icons – […]

For plugin developers desiring an easier way to perform common tasks, a little more structure in their code, or perhaps even a dash of MVC goodness, here is a list of WordPress plugin frameworks. This list is intended to be comprehensive. If you find an actively maintained plugin framework that’s not listed here, let me […]