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What happened to the WordPress Fast Secure Contact Form plug-in?!

Posted on by admin
Mike Challis, the long-standing original author of the "Fast Secure Contact Form" plug-in posted an article here about what suddenly happened to the plug-in he made available for Wordpress users for so long.  Shame, because this was a great, stable plug-in and it always seemed to work no matter what kind of theme you used. …

Mesocolumn WordPress child theme fix after updating theme

Posted on by Aaron Belchamber
It was bound to happen, the very reliable Mesocolumn Wordpress theme finally made an entry in a website's fatal error logs.  I make a habit of examining website error logs, if you have a business with a web department, insist that they regularly scan and check your website error logs or subscribe to a service…

New update to WordPress “Insert Script” plug-in available for WordPress PHP developers

Posted on by Aaron Belchamber
I added some new improvements to the "Insert Script" Wordpress plug-in.  You can now declare a JSON string and it will parse it out as $json_vals_arr, an array that gets passed directly to your external PHP script. You can also declare "strings" instead of "vals" as a GET URL string like:  "strings='variable1=value1&variable2=value2&etc=andSoOn'". To download the…

WordPress: Texturize shortcodes?! I thought I heard it all

Posted on by Aaron Belchamber
Sometimes, I wonder if the Wordpress community doesn't create some over-complication of things just because it can.  I came across the term "texturizing" when I was developing another Wordpress plug-in.  I ignored the warning before but figured it warranted a second look.  After all, it sounds like it could affect something on one of our…

“Insert Script” Simple WordPress Plug-in

Posted on by Aaron Belchamber
The “Insert Script” Simple Wordpress Plug-in uses an “insert_script” shortcode to insert external scripts into Wordpress content. I developed a simple Wordpress plug-in that allows Wordpress owners to call and execute external scripts from within their web root folder. It can be HTML, Javascript, CSS, or even PHP that executes first. You can even pass…