Comments on: Most stupid function in WordPress? http://www.burobjorn.nl/blog/2010/01/12/most-stupid-function-in-wordpress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-stupid-function-in-wordpress Burobjorn houdt zich bezig met open source software en online media. Van advies tot concept. Van prototype tot implementatie. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BjornW http://www.burobjorn.nl/blog/2010/01/12/most-stupid-function-in-wordpress/#comment-249045 BjornW Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:25:14 +0000 http://www.burobjorn.nl/?p=699#comment-249045 Hi Arnoud, Indeed remotely useful, therefor I would opt for having a function to work out-of-the-box for most cases and allow to change this behavior in those situations as the one you described. There are probably pieces of code in the nooks and crannies of Wordpress that are even worse, but this one really caught my eye. Luckily it is FLOSS so I can change it and suggest my solution to the core Wordpress committers to patch it. Hi Arnoud,

Indeed remotely useful, therefor I would opt for having a function to work out-of-the-box for most cases and allow to change this behavior in those situations as the one you described. There are probably pieces of code in the nooks and crannies of WordPress that are even worse, but this one really caught my eye. Luckily it is FLOSS so I can change it and suggest my solution to the core WordPress committers to patch it.

]]> By: Arnoud Engelfriet http://www.burobjorn.nl/blog/2010/01/12/most-stupid-function-in-wordpress/#comment-249044 Arnoud Engelfriet Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:19:19 +0000 http://www.burobjorn.nl/?p=699#comment-249044 Remotely useful application: to generate "All posts of $date" overview pages. On such pages you don't want each post to have its date appear in the template. So if you use the_date() in the template you only get it printed once. Remotely useful application: to generate “All posts of $date” overview pages. On such pages you don’t want each post to have its date appear in the template. So if you use the_date() in the template you only get it printed once.

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