Last week I did an article on increasing your WordPress security. This week I want to go over some useful shell commands that will let you know what’s going wrong with your security and then how to fix them. Most […] Read More »
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Increasing Your WordPress Security
There isn’t a piece of software on the face of the planet that is 100% secure and after spending the last week increasing the security on the over 200 WordPress sites we have I decided I should share what I […] Read More »
Install Plugins via Command Line
Recently I was looking for a way to install the latest version of WordPress plugins that I like to use on my client’s sites without having to FTP. Before I created the small script we’ll see later, I had a […] Read More »
Using the WordPress Media Library
In one of my previous articles I talked about using the WordPress media uploader for your own plugins/themes. I had quite a few questions in the comments of that article about how to do certain things and to elaborate on […] Read More »
DobsonDev Underscores
In my previous article I mentioned the DobsonDev Underscores project I’ve been working on. I also mentioned that I wasn’t quite done yet but luckily this is no longer the case. For those of you who already have an idea […] Read More »
WordPress AJAX Example
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is one of the handiest features/group of interrelated technologies you can include on your website. With AJAX you enable your page to perform database retrievals and changes without reloading the page. WordPress comes with built […] Read More »
Conditionally Enqueue a Stylesheet into WordPress for a Certain Page
In a recent project I found myself creating an online registration form for a dance competition website. I wanted to use Foundation to style the form, but I only wanted the stylesheet to be enqueued on that one page. Basically […] Read More »
WordPress Transient Naming
Last week I went over how to use WordPress transients to cache data from an API call. I also talked about a problem where naming transients can be very difficult due to the size restriction of 40 characters. I also […] Read More »
WordPress Transients
WordPress isn’t known for being the fastest website solution on the market – but there are a lot of little tricks that you can do as a developer to make everything run faster. Last week I did an article on […] Read More »
WordPress .htaccess for Performance
WordPress isn’t known for being the fastest CMS out there – but there are a few easy tricks that you can do with your .htaccess file that can significantly increase performance. Recently I launched a WordPress site and web to […] Read More »