Category Archive: WordPress
Posts about WordPress
Simple Ajax Chat .htaccess whitelist
In general, chat scripts are huge targets for malicious activity. My chat plugin, Simple Ajax Chat is no exception, and includes strong security measures to protect against attack. Aimed at the free version of SAC, this quick tutorial shows a simple Apache/.htaccess technique to further strengthen plugin security.
Display Images with User Submitted Posts
Here is a quick recipe for displaying linked images for images submitted with the User Submitted Posts plugin.
WordPress enqueue user-agent stylesheets
WordPress makes it clean and easy to enqueue custom stylesheets via the functions.php file. Here’s how to do it for user-agent stylesheets.
Get all meta data for WordPress user
Quick tip to get all meta data for any WordPress user. Warning, arrays ahead..
Shortcut to WP Login
Back in January of 2011, Chris Coyier posted a sweet .htaccess technique for setting up Simpler Login URLs in WordPress. This is a follow-up technique that’s slightly improved..
View all WP Post variables
Quick tip to view all WP Post variables, which can be useful for development and debugging in WordPress.
WP Admin link to All Options
The WordPress database houses more settings than those available in the Admin Area. Here’s a quick code snippet to display an “All Options” screen to view otherwise hidden data.
Display all images attached to post
Another technique for working with WordPress attachments, here’s how to display all images that are attached to the post, either before or after the existing post content.
Post format archives
The Post Format Archives Widget makes it easy to link to your custom-formatted posts. Here is a snippet for conditionally displaying their respective archives.
View all WP query variables
Micro Tip for the day: slice of PHP code for viewing all WordPress query variables. Very useful for figuring out custom loops and such.
Maintenance mode via .htaccess
For WordPress users there are at least three great plugins that make maintenance mode just dead-simple. Even so, here is how to do it with .htaccess.
WordPress 404 email alerts
Here is a customized plug-n-play PHP script for reporting 404 errors via email. No editing required, just clean email alerts for each 404 error.