As of August 6th, a massive vulnerability in WordPress and Drupal has been public knowledge. Anyone with a little bit of computer savvy could take down your entire website and server in seconds, unless you update WordPress now. This vulnerability uses something called a XML Quadratic Blowup Attack and is very simple to exploit. It affects almost all WordPress websites … Read More
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How to Change the Port for SSH Uploads – WordPress
Note: If your screenshot looks different than mine, you may have to install the plugin SSH SFTP Updater Support. If you have a secured server and are using a non-standard port for your connection, it may be confusing how you can specify that port in your WordPress admin when doing things like updates or new plugin installs. But it’s actually quite … Read More
Embed Videos in your Dashboard with Video Dashboard
I am pleased to announce that my first plugin has been accepted in the WordPress repository! Now you can embed videos directly in your WordPress dashboard with a very simple plugin. Go to the WordPress download page for Video Dashboard here. I have a lot of clients, and one of my favorite things to do is make screencasts for them as … Read More
Easily Add Social Media Follow Buttons to Theme – WordPress
If you are like me, you frequently need to be able to easily add social media follow buttons directly to your WordPress theme. You could, of course, hard-code them, but you are still going to have to find the images and add all that markup to get it looking good. There is an easy way! With the Social Media Feather … Read More
Passing a PHP Variable to Javascript in WordPress: The EASY Way
If you’ve made it here, odds are you’ve already been through the depths of the internet, full of “simple” tutorials talking about how easy it is to pass a variable in your PHP code to Javascript in WordPress. Maybe they even have simple, foolproof examples. The only thing is, they don’t work. WHY don’t they work? Who cares! They are … Read More
Single Post Permalink Not Working and 404 for Logged-out Users – WordPress
Sometimes you may find that the permalink of a single page you have in WordPress is not working. When you are in the edit screen, it shows up fine. But when you click to view it, the permalink is something like yoursite.com/?p=14 or something along those lines. Additionally, when you try to view the page when logged out, you get … Read More
Use FTP to Create New Admin User in WordPress
I came across a really neat trick today for those times when you’ve been locked out of your own WordPress site or a client wants you to make changes to their site but never gave you login credentials. All you need is FTP access and you can create a new administrator user. Original credit for this goes to George Stephanis of … Read More
Limit Word Count in WordPress Excerpt
I came across a great way to limit the number of words displayed in the excerpt for a WordPress post, brought to you by the good folks at Cuppa (update – link removed because the site is gone). This method will allow you to choose a specific word limit every time you use the_excerpt or get_the_excerpt in your template files, … Read More
Can’t Add Pages to Custom Menu – WordPress Solution
A common problem with beginners to WordPress after they create a new site is that they are unable to add anything to their custom menu. In some cases, there are just no options to choose from to add to the menu, in others there is just a vague heading saying, “no items” as well as numerous other problems. here are … Read More