Protect Plesk stats
An important aspect of website security is protecting sensitive data such as your server statistics. Here is an important security tip for Plesk users.
Create .po templates for WP themes via Poedit
Creating a .po template can be tricky using Poedit, but here are the exact steps that work for me.
Automatic versioning for enqueued stylesheets
Learn how to append the theme version, random number, or both as a query-string parameter to your CSS stylesheet URLs. This is useful for automatic versioning, cache-busting during development, or both.
Break Out of Frames for WordPress
Quick JavaScript snippet to prevent scrapers and turds from framing, defaming, and/or stealing your precious content..
Cron database backups via email
Here’s a simple, effective, and practical way to keep regular backups of your database using cron. After setting up the cron job, backups of your database are sent to you via email.
Download large files via SSH
Here is one way to download huge files (or any size file) from your server to your local machine. All you need is an SSH connection and the scp command.
WordPress Comment Anchor Links
Just a head’s up about comment anchor links: they tend to vary a lot from theme to theme, and whether or not there are comments on the post.
WordPress Load Order
Micro-post today, on the load order of WordPress..
Canonical snippets for WordPress
.htaccess enables us to easily clean up 404 errors and other misdirected HTTP traffic for better SEO. Here are some canonical snippets for WordPress and beyond.
Another WordPress Cron Example
Here is another WP Cron example for my previous article on WP Cron tips.
CSS content for list items
Quick snippet for replacing default list-style types (bullets, discs, squares, etc.) with custom generated content in CSS.
WordPress Cron Tips
Here are some quick tips for working with WordPress Cron. The trick to using the scheduling functions is to get the next scheduled cron using wp_next_scheduled().