Recently, I was working on a project that required a very specific, feature-packed form that was able to store values in a database and email multiple recipients. I’ve been a big fan of the WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 for many years and although it isn’t saturated with out-of-the-box features, it’s very developer-friendly and flexible. […]
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Heartbleed has captivated the attention of the internet in the past few days since its discovery and that’s no coincidence. It’s bad news. Like, really bad news. It’s not necessarily a good thing when Joe Siegrist, the CEO of LastPass says, “It was definitely a ‘holy sh*t’ moment”. Now that it’s been a week since the initial […]
Read More →Twitter Broke Our WordPress Widget
As many of you might have noticed, our Twitter widget in the footer is empty now. That’s because Twitter broke our WordPress widget. This makes me sad :'( Unfortunately, we’re not the only ones affected by the recent changes to the developers API made by Twitter on June 11th, 2013. The social media behemoth deemed it […]
Read More →Get Dreamweaver to Color Code TPL (or INC) Files as PHP
Recently, I was needing to edit a LOT of .tpl files while I was working on a client’s site. I quickly learned after opening the first file that Dreamweaver was dead set on color coding these as regular HTML files. That was going to be too annoying for me and way too much dull blue […]
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Anyone who has tried to map domain names to multiple sites within a WordPress network has probably encountered a few issues. This process isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. Why is that? Well, the primary reason mapping domain names with WordPress is difficult is due to the lack of a physical file structure and how WordPress […]
Read More →List Of All Countries In The World In Alphabetical Order In PHP Array Format
I was working on a project recently that involved me creating a drop-down list of all the countries in the world. Since we use PHP, this needed to be put into an array that I then could loop through and assign to option values in a select form element. Whilst doing serious internet research (aka […]
Read More →StalkMySite – FREE Website Uptime Script
I came across this article from Lifehacker about how to use Google Docs and Javascript to monitor if your websites are currently up. The article links to Amit Agarwal’s post on how to set up his free website uptime script using this Google Doc spreadsheet to handle the ever-so-tedious task of making sure that your […]
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