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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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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Website Monitoring for Websites on Multiple Load Balanced Servers
One of our favorite SaaS (Software as a Service) providers is Wormly.com. They provide external, multi-country testing of website URL’s for real content. Why is this important? Why is Wormly so highly recommended? Testing from inside your own network may make your website “appear” to be online even if its not accessible to the rest of the World. Network Uptime…
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- posted at 12:37 pm
- June 11, 2012
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Removing double line breaks from WordPress files
Have you uploaded a theme or plugin, and then attempted to edit the files to find out there are “double line breaks” every place there should be single line breaks? It makes the files look REALLY messy huh? We have been battling this for years. Finally we decided to look closer and find a solution. The solution is actually VERY…
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- posted at 9:15 pm
- May 10, 2012
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WordPress Page Template Detection Script
Ever got stuck wondering which page wordpress is actually loading? Wonder no more! Simply add this text to your functions file, save, upload and refresh. Viola, it will print the page template WordPress is trying to load so you know exactly which file to modify and bend to your every whim.
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- by Seth Carstens
- posted at 2:59 pm
- March 5, 2012
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Remove Ads from White Label CMS Plugin
So White Label CMS plugin is great, and its free. However, white label has its own ads! Which you don’t want to show up on the site to be truely “White Label”. Thankfully in the new version of the plugin there is a section to add some admin side CSS code. This allows us to quickly and simply hide the…
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- posted at 12:35 pm
- January 10, 2012
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