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11/16/2014
Disable the WordPress theme and plugin file editor
To tighten security of your WordPress site, you can disable users’ ability to edit your theme and plug-in files. After all, isn’t that what your web development team should be doing?
08/06/2014
CollabPress: project management inside WordPress
Some people are so enamored with these shiny new project management tools that load so nicely on our smart phones that they forget it should be a transparent part of the project and not a task and part of the process of…
03/16/2014
Need multiple contact forms on your WordPress website?
There are plenty of contact form plug-ins for WordPress. I’ve used a few that I thought would be good but turned out to be barely functional, clunky, and/or buggy.
03/08/2014
A WordPress shortcode that lists posts or pages
In WordPress, you can do a lot with shortcodes, the problem is, some work fine then one day they just break. It’s best to stick with ones that work reliably, even when you upgrade.
02/26/2014
Including a PHP file from a WordPress shortcode, safely
The 2014 version of this shortcode takes a file path out of the post and includes it, which is a local file inclusion hole with extra steps. The fix is small: let the code decide which files are includable, not the person writing the post.
02/26/2014
Turn on WordPress Debugging
When you’re in development mode, it’s useful to get errors in scripts as they occur. Just place this line anywhere in your functions.php file for your active child theme and you will start seeing debug feedback complete…
02/25/2014
Remove the markup WordPress adds after a comment form
Find the line in your child theme’s “comment.php” file where it calls on the function comment_form() and replace that line with this: