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Notes for Plesk Webmail
Recently discovered that emails were not getting thru. Looking into it, turns out that Plesk’s webmail feature was at 100% capacity so it was rejecting all new email. Not good.
Add featured images to WordPress feeds
By default, WordPress does not display your post’s featured images in feeds. Fortunately it’s easy to do.
WordPress Remove Menu Item
Quick WordPress tutorial for you today. How to remove an unwanted item from the WordPress menu. You know, the main menu that you find on the left-hand side of the screen when logged into the WordPress Admin Area. If you have a menu item that you want to remove, this post shows an easy way […]
Recursive Download Files with Wget
Quick note for future reference. GNU’s Wget enables you to download files and resources directly via Terminal/shell. The big tip here is the r option, which tells Wget to download the target files recursively. For example, if you want to download an entire site:
WordPress navigation outside the loop
Normally the template tags used for navigating posts and pages must be included inside of the WordPress loop. This is great but there may be times when you need to display the navigation links outside of the loop.
Video Tutorials: Securing WordPress Sites
After several months of production, my video course on developing secure WordPress sites is now available at LinkedIn/Lynda.com!
WordPress Check PHP Version
When working with the WP API, you may need to check the current version of PHP to ensure compatibility.
WordPress Set Featured Image with Fallback
In this tutorial, we’ll see how to enable theme support for Featured Images (aka Post Thumbnails), and also how to display them with fallback image support.
Fix double abbr underlines
The developers at Firefox decided to add their own default styles for <abbr></abbr> and <acronym></acronym> tags — completely ignoring the fact that many sites already include their own styles for abbreviations and acronyms. The result is an ugly double underline and/or text-decoration in Firefox browsers.
Minimal, optimal email headers
I recently had a conversation with an email guru concerning the ideal headers to use when sending plain-text email messages. Here is the punchline of that insightful exchange..
Anatomy of a URL
Sweet little infographic explaining the different parts of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
WordPress Shortcode for Linked Image Gallery
This cool little snippet was contributed by VRS from Russia. It enables you to display a set of linked gallery images. You can use this technique anywhere in your theme template file or in any WordPress Post or Page.