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PHP Compress CSS & JavaScript
Quick snippets for compressing CSS and JavaScript with PHP’s ob_gzhandler, which will gzip or deflate content depending on browser support.
Customize WordPress Allowed Tags for Comments
By default, the WordPress comment form enables users to include basic HTML tags in their comments. This includes tags like <p></p>, <br />, <strong></strong>, and so forth. These basic tags suffice to add basic formatting in most cases. But for some setups, more tags may be needed.
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.
WordPress Basic Allowed HTML for wp_kses
Here is a function that I use in my plugin, Dashboard Widgets Suite. It provides a sane, practical set of HTML tags and attributes for WP’s wp_kses family of functions.
WordPress Do Stuff on First User Login
Here is a code snippet that runs the first time a user logs in to their registered account. Useful for sending custom welcome emails, or whatever.
WordPress Exclude Custom Post Type from Search
Out of the box, WordPress search results include matches from any Custom Post Types that may be enabled via the theme template. For example, at htaccessbook.com, any matching content found in forum posts will be included in search results. This default behavior can be super convenient, but it is not always desirable. In this quick […]
Including Arrays in URI Requests
Some esoteric code phenomena for you today.. in this post I explain how PHP handles arrays when they are included in URL requests (via the query string). It’s something I failed to grasp until doing some in-depth work developing my professional WordPress firewall plugin. Now let’s jump in..
PHP Sanitize XSS
Here is a simple PHP function I use to prevent XSS attacks. Use it to sanitize any user-input or otherwise unknown variables before use.
Add links to HTML/CSS Validator
Here are some notes and markup examples for adding links to the W3C’s online HTML and CSS validators. This will enable your visitors to check any page on your site.
PHP Sanitize Form Data
On the Web, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most common types of attacks. Fortunately, there is an easy fix: always filter input data and always escape output data.
Require user login for any plugin
Here’s a quick trick to require user-login for any plugin. For example, if you want users to be able to use your chat plugin only if they are logged in. Here’s how..
WordPress Get the Author Outside Loop
This tutorial explains how to get the current Post Author outside of the WordPress Loop.
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