PHP and WordPress Encryption and Decryption Tutorial
This is the example I built while learning how to properly protect password before they are stored in the database. I’ve seen dozens of plugins simply take in API paramters like “username and password” and just store those values in the database for use. How horrible is that! We decided to do the right thing and learn about encryption security…
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- posted at 3:55 pm
- April 26, 2013
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Properly setting up a WordPress website to Market your business model
*This guide is assuming website is for marketing and information only (or lead generation). There are some other considerations and steps involved in creating an ecommerce site, web portal, online services website, or another venue. ** Presentations of this material will be available in the coming weeks. If your interested in viewing the presentations live, please visit the meetup group…
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- posted at 11:31 am
- April 3, 2013
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Codeschools Chrome DevTools Course Notes
This post will offer higher end developers some notes about what I learned about Google Chrome dev tools. I consider myself to be fairly experienced in web development after over 10 years of coding and I still managed to take away some very cool information from the DevTools Online Course: Make changes to a stylesheet, save your changes, view the…
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- posted at 3:48 pm
- March 21, 2013
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Downloading a PHP file using fopen (anywhere on the server)
While migrating a website today, we ran into some issues. This issue was caused by the previous developers trying to “hide code” from the end users so that they could not move the website away from the marketing agency (very shady). Below is the PHP code we used to download a working copy of the “hidden” file. As you can…
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- posted at 12:10 pm
- March 3, 2013
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WordCamp Phoenix 2013 – Seth’s Notes
WP 301 – Presentation 1 Kurt’s Presentation Slides – http://x.co/phx13301/ Keywords: Netbeans, xdebug, XAMPP, VirtualBox Have you considered local development? WP 301 – Presenation 2 Chris Olbekson Debug Plugin, PhpStorm, Code Sniffer for standards and formatting, Do you know what a CRON is? PHP Sniffer, uses PEAR, WP 301 – Presentation 3 (mine) Before questions: How many freelancers in the…
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- posted at 7:54 am
- January 18, 2013
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Search and Replace Content in WordPress
We tried a few plugins for this but after content reached 400-500 pages and about 1500 blog articles the plugins just run out of memory. Instead we built and used this function, for example, to remove all shortcodes used for “citiations”. We no longer track citiations and want them all removed.
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update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, '[citation id="1]', ''); |
- by Seth Carstens
- posted at 3:40 pm
- December 19, 2012
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