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WordPress Disable Self Pings
Depending on your WordPress configuration, plugins, and so forth, your site may be suffering from “self-pings”. Self-pings are pingbacks from your own domain, which are not necessary and look kind of silly displayed alongside other, actual pingbacks. If your site is haunted by self-pings, here is a quick code snippet to stop them.
Dealing with translation spam
How I respond to “translation spam”, which happens when greasy organizations ask permission to translate your script, extension, plugin, etc.
SMS Text API Services
I’ve been wanting to build a “server uptime” app that optionally sends a text message to alert users if certain conditions are met. I can build the app part myself, but needed a solid way to send the SMS messages. In my pursuit of a solution for this, came across several reasonably priced solutions. Thought […]
Free Up Server Disk Space
Recently I spent some time clearing up more free space on my server. Here are some notes on things to check when doing so.
Fix “Function Not Found” Error in WordPress Must-Use Plugins
Posting these notes in case they are useful to anyone looking for related information. This may or may not be related to must-use plugins. I am still testing on vanilla WordPress installation. Update: after some further experimenting, it looks like the issue was resolved by uploading a fresh set of WordPress core files. So try […]
Remove Linked Image Borders in IE
Internet Explorer has a nasty habit of displaying honking blue borders on linked images. This post shows a quick way to disable them using a slice of jQuery.
Protect Against File Injection
Here is a nice copy/paste .htaccess snippet to help block file-injection attacks. It can be added as-is to your .htaccess file to help protect against file injection and other types of malicious activity. This code is a not a replacement for proper data sanitization, but it does help to add another layer of security to […]
Batch Rename Files on Mac
This is especially useful for those bulk photography missions, where you’ve got folders of hundreds of generic useless file names that were created by a camera or mobile device. This quick tutorial explains how to easily batch rename all the files contained in any folder. All that is required is Mac’s built-in Finder app.
Video Tutorials: Running WordPress on Shared Hosting
After months of hard work, I am pleased to announce the launch of my new video course on running WordPress on shared hosting. This course shows you how to get your own WordPress-powered site up and running as quickly and inexpensively as possible. It walks through the entire process step-by-step, with helpful visuals and examples […]
WordPress Remove Query Strings from Scripts and Styles
I’ve had this post sitting here unpublished for a while now. Thought it’s finally time to post and share with anyone who may be looking for it. Basically here are two ways to remove query strings from the URLs of any registered scripts and styles. Let’s take a look..
Free up screen space on EDD settings pages
Easy Digital Downloads recently added a giant logo to all of their settings pages in the WordPress Admin Area. That’s great for them, but users are left with about an inch less of screen space. So now when visiting EDD settings, customers, downloads, etc., you have less vertical space with which to work. This quick […]
Coda Tip: Fix Reverse Publish Not Working
Another mystery solved! For several years now, I’ve used Coda for coding, SFTP, and related tasks. Downloading files from the server is a common task, but for some reason you always have to click “Reverse Publish Selected Files” several times before the download will start. It’s not a big deal, but I’ve always thought it […]