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WordPress Navigation Links for Monthly Archives

Archives that are easy to navigate make your WordPress-powered site that much more awesome. There are plenty of great strategies for increasing the usefulness of your post archives. For example, this quick tutorial provides some custom functions that display monthly navigation links. So you can display “Previous Month” and “Next Month” links on monthly archive […]

Restore Removed Query String Paramaters in the WP Admin Area

Developing my WordPress plugins recently, I noticed that Chrome was removing the query-string parameters from the URL as displayed in the browser’s address bar. Likewise Firefox and others were not showing the full URL in the address bar, which was making development difficult, as I was testing URL redirects involving query parameters at the time.

PHP Geo IP Lookup

Here is a nice PHP snippet for GeoIP lookups. As written the script uses api.hostip.info for the lookup service, but that is easily changed as needed (GeoIP lookup services change or go offline constantly). So for what it’s worth, figured it was worth sharing rather than complete and utter deletion. Yes I am a code […]

Protect against SQL Injection

Here is a nice copy/paste .htaccess snippet to help block SQL-injection attacks. It can be added as-is to your .htaccess file to help protect against SQL 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 […]

Add Defer and Async to WordPress Enqueued Scripts

When adding JavaScript in WordPress, it sometimes is necessary to add attributes such as async and defer to the <script></script> tag. Here is a technique to do it with any WordPress version 4.1 and better.

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.

Disable Chrome XSS Auditor

Working on WordPress development and testing HTML forms in Chrome browser, I ran into the following error: This page isn't working Chrome detected unusual code on this page and blocked it to protect your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards). ERR_BLOCKED_BY_XSS_AUDITOR

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 […]

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 […]

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.

WordPress template_redirect Example

Quick code snippet showing basic use of the WordPress template_redirect action hook. This is provided as a quick copy/paste reference for WordPress developers. This hook is useful for customizing any functionality requiring full query information.

Display WordPress Theme Screenshot

Most good themes include a screenshot, primarily to be displayed on the Themes screen in the WP Admin Area. Of course, theme screenshots can be displayed anywhere, even on the frontend.

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