Posts Tagged ‘how to’
Remove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+
Did anyone actually ask around before making this “feature” mandatory? Let’s get rid of this crap…
Read MoreSet 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:
Read MoreLock 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.
Read MoreAdd 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!
Read MoreCreate 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!
Read MoreUse 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.
Read MoreCreate a ‘Must Use’ Plugin for WordPress
Some of you are like me: “frequent theme changer guy”. Here’s a trick I’ve learned to keep from having to re-write code every time I get bored with a theme: I use the “Must Use” Plugin.
Read MoreAwesomesauce: Turn Chrome Developer Tools into an IDE
UPDATE: As of Chrome 33, some of the items in this tutorial are out of date. By now, your installation of Google Chrome should have updated to version 28. With it, came the ability to edit and save code. Imagine, not having to bounce between an IDE (Sublime Text, Coda, Dreamweaver) and Chrome while developing…
Read More301 Redirects with .htaccess
After I dumped my database and blew up my site, I wanted to resurrect my most popular content. I needed to setup 301 redirects so both users and Google could find my (old) content in it’s (new) location. Here is a snippet of my .htaccess file. https://gist.github.com/gregrickaby/5619593
Read MoreGenesis Code Snippets
Here is my collection of code snippets I use build child themes in Genesis.
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