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…
read more- by Seth Carstens
- 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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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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WordCamp Phoenix 2013 Organizer
For those of you who don’t know, WordCamp is an annual event where WordPress users and enthusiasts gather to connect, learn, and meet other members of the WordPress community. There are workshops and speakers for a variety of topics and skill levels, and it’s an incredible opportunity to share knowledge and creativity with one another. The WordPress community spans worldwide,…
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- posted at 6:17 pm
- October 25, 2012
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WordPress Security Threat: WooThemes Canvas Theme
Note the details of our latest malware scan and identification of a WordPress site that was hacked.
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************************************************************** A malware scan on the account shows that account is infected. ************************************************************** malware detect scan report for cloud.myhostnameservers.com: SCAN ID: 062512-1008.7692 TIME: Jun 25 10:08:50 -0500 PATH: /home/ACCOUNT/public_html TOTAL FILES: 3956 TOTAL HITS: 2 TOTAL CLEANED: 0 NOTE: quarantine is disabled! set quar_hits=1 in conf.maldet or to quarantine results run: maldet -q 062512-1008.7692 FILE HIT LIST: {HEX}php.cmdshell.unclassed.344 : /home/ACCOUNT/public_html/DOMAIN.com/wp-sys.php {HEX}php.cmdshell.unclassed.344 : /home/ACCOUNT/public_html/DOMAIN.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/inc.php ************************************************************** |
- by Seth Carstens
- posted at 4:12 pm
- June 25, 2012
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