Scripts to setup a Wordpress server on CentOS 7 with NGINX, PHP/PHP-FPM 7, Redis and more. Firewalld - allow only HTTP/S and SSH traffic Letsencrypt - free SSL certificates Yum…
September 23, 2016
GoDaddy managed WordPress hosting, and by ownership MediaTemple as well, prevents some plugins from being activated on website. Some of these may make some sense if the conflict…
March 17, 2016
Advanced Custom Fields, or ACF, provides a great user interface for defining and laying out custom fields for Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Options, Users and more in…
September 3, 2015
I use the Admin Columns Pro plugin on several of my WordPress site to easily customize the layout in my admin tables. As it is a premium plugin updates to it are not hosted on…
November 2, 2014
There is a somewhat serious bug in Advanced Custom Fields 5.0 and its handling of backslashes, at least on my WordPress installs. The problem is that the slashes are stripped,…
November 1, 2014
W3 Total Cache, also known as W3TC, is a very powerful caching plugin for WordPress which is notoriously slow without tuning. For guest users much of your content will typically…
October 31, 2014
Advanced Custom Forms Pro 5.0 is out, and it contains a major overhaul to the way that custom fields are handled. It also had a major impact on the way that third-party add-ons…
October 19, 2014
Featured Images on a WordPress page or post can make it easy to use a single image to represent the content of your page. Given that they look better, why not feature them at the…
August 15, 2014
On one site that I run there are several different functions, primarily provided by disparate plugins with custom actions/filters, that send emails both to site administrators…
July 24, 2014
Why should I use prepared statements? Using some type of prepared statement protects you against SQL injection attacks when you need to interact with the database using…
June 30, 2014
What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it's a bit of a hack…
May 14, 2014
If you write and contribute plugins to the WordPress Repository then you might be interested in having your plugin be aware of updates you have made available - an admin notice…
April 15, 2014