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m is a Wordpress query string variable which can be used to request posts posted at a certain time. It is parsed in the method get_posts() of wp_query. m allows specifying the time upto the second. [Continue]

Wordpress supports Localization using the gettext framework. l10n global variable is used to store all the readers corresponding to the different languages supported. It is set in the function load_textdomain($domain, $mofile) defined in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/wp-l10n.p [Continue]

Wordpress supports internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n). A locale is indicated by the combination of the language and the region (usually the country). It is represented with ISO codes of the language and countries, e.g., en_US for US Enligsh, en_GB for British English and so on. [Continue]

Like is_apache, is_IIS is part of the web server detection. It is set in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/vars.php in the following manner: $is_IIS=strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') ? [Continue]

is_apache global variable can be used to detect which webserver Wordpress is running on. It is set in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/vars.php as part of the server detection code. [Continue]

post_meta_cache is one more global variable used for caching as Wordpress. It is a multi-dimensional array which stores the custom fields for a post. The custom fields are stored by the post ID and then by the custom field key. [Continue]

Wordpress provides a facility of hooks. They can be used by plugin and theme developers can modify custom behavior at different points in Wordpress. Mark Jaquith has compiled a directory of hooks provided by Wordpress. [Continue]

Wordpress stores version of the MySQL database currently being used in the wp_db_version global variable. Like wp_version, it is set in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/version.php. [Continue]

This global variable indicates whether the current user wants to use rich editing interface (by default using TinyMCE) for creating/editing posts and comments. Since Wordpress 2.0, the option of rich editing is set per user, which can be accessed by using the checkbox, “Use the visual rich editor when writing”, in Admin Panel->Users->Your Profile. richedit is set in the functions get_post_to_edit($id) and get_comment_to_edit($id) in the [wordpress-root-folder]/wp-admin/admin-functions.p [Continue]

Wordpress uses page_cache global variable to cache static pages by their ID. Caching can notably improve performance by retrieving data from memory and avoiding repeated queries to the database. It is an array set in the function update_page_cache(&$pages) defined in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/functions.p [Continue]