The WordPress plugin Shortcode for Font Awesome (SCFA) 1.1.0 has been released: Tested with WordPress 5.6 Tested with PHP 7.4 Updated to Font Awesome 5.15.1 You can get it from: wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-for-font-awesome/ code.webbplatsen.net/wordpress/wordpress-shortcodes-for-font-awesome/ The GitHub repo is here: github.com/joho1968/SCFA
Cloudbridge Mattermost is a WordPress plugin that provides integration between WordPress and Mattermost. In the initial release, we focus on login notifications (successful, failed, unknown) from the various WordPress user roles. We will, of course, be adding more functionality in the future. You can download …
While writing a WordPress plugin that displays the available user roles, I came across a snag: the user roles that I had fetched from WordPress weren’t translated into the site’s current language. I’m not quite sure I understand the reasoning behind this since WordPress offers …
Sometimes it’s a lot faster to simply get a list of all of your current WordPress settings by using the direct options URL: https://yoursite.tld/wp-admin/options.php WordPress will gently nudge you to be careful when using that URL, but it may help you track down settings that …
Using the APIs over at trafiklab.se can yield some quite useful results. I needed to be able to display the commute stop departure times for public transport in a given place, so I wrote this WordPress plugin called Stopsign. It uses the Trafiklab.se API. The …
While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct (301) header (?!) This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I didn’t want …
The list of things to do to harden a WordPress site with Apache is long, but some things that could be done include: FileETag None <Files wp-config.php> Require all denied </Files> <Files xmlrpc.php> Require all denied </Files> <LocationMatch “/wp-content/uploads/.*(?i)\.php$”> Require all denied </LocationMatch>
This is, perhaps, obvious to most PHP developers. But it came somewhat as a surprise to me. Using is_numeric () for validating a WordPress version string, such as ‘4.7’, does not seem to work very well when WordPress introduces minor releases such as ‘4.7.1’. Since …
Tired of nine zillion revisions of your posts created on your WordPress site? Open up wp-config.php with a nice editor like Emacs or Pico/Nano or VI and add: define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false ); to disable post revisions completely. Or, if you just want to limit the number …
Well, I guess it had to happen at some point. I’ve been running Serendipity (S9Y) for as long as I can remember “blogging”. At one point I was coding something that looked a lot like some early version of WordPress and S9Y, but I gave …