Did anyone actually ask around before making this “feature” mandatory? Let’s get rid of this crap… Continue reading “Remove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+”
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Set up localhost on VirtualBox
My local stack includes MAMP, VirtualBox and ModernIE. ModernIE is great for cross-browser testing, but you have configure your “hosts” file. Here are the steps to get localhost working through VirtualBox: Continue reading “Set up localhost on VirtualBox”
7 steps for gainful, long-lasting employment
Over the years I’ve learned some things “the hard way” – and here are my steps for gainful, long-lasting employment. Continue reading “7 steps for gainful, long-lasting employment”
Lock down WP-ADMIN
Because of the recent increase in attacks on WordPress, we were recently chatting about locking down /wp-admin and wp-login.php. We discussed the Limit Login Attempts plugin, which works really well. If a user fails to login after a certain amount of attempts, they are blacklisted for a period of time. Continue reading “Lock down WP-ADMIN”
Add Google Fonts to WordPress
There are so many terrible examples on adding Google Fonts to WordPress.
You should NOT use @import, nor just place the HTML in the header. Instead use a function and enqueue it! Continue reading “Add Google Fonts to WordPress”
Create a custom RSS feed template for WordPress
Creating a custom RSS template is pretty easy. I’ll show you have to do it in 3 steps.
NOTE: Browsers heavily cache RSS feeds. While developing, open your browser in Incognito Mode!
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Use Dropbox to take and share screenshots
Did you know you can use Dropbox to take and share screenshots? You can and it’s as easy as enabling the option.
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