It’s rare that I open the source code for a random plugin and see every recommended security measure taken. When looking at Chris Boyd‘s plugin GeoLocation Plugin, I kept digging deeper and deeper and found he’d consistently covered everything. This plugin...
I just made a change to my .bashrc file and I thought I would share the tip. All of this is pretty basic stuff, but if you don’t customize your Linux logins, this would be a good place to start. For...
When manipulating WordPress databases for exports and merges, sometimes it is helpful to get a list of all of the parents for the categories your posts are in. For the import I am working on right now. The category list is...
Periodically I would get messages from Twitter and Facebook telling me that my email address is invalid. I would just hit reconfirm and it would work fine for a while. When a client came to me and said he was getting...
AVG is a “free” antivirus software package that has become fairly popular lately. The b5media tech team has been asked many times in the last 24 hours about why AVG is blocking legitimate sites. There is a FAQ on AVG’s site...
I ran into a situation where I wanted to get the name of the directory I was in, in PHP. To be clear, I didn’t want the full path, just the directory/folder name To be clear, if I was working in...
While I was rolling around near comatose yesterday WordPress 2.8 beta 1 hit the streets. We plan to do a thorough review of this project on Thursday at the Ohio WordPress meetup here in Akron, Ohio. So, I figured it would...
I first laid eyes on Michael Widenius, the original and principle author of the MySQL database software at the 2008 MySQL Conference in San Jose. Michael, who is more commonly known simply as “Monty”, had recently had his pride and joy,...
For various reasons, sometimes the number of comments shown under the title of the post may not match the number of actual comments displayed under the post. Here is a simple SQL statement that will resolve the issue: update `wp_posts` set...
You know how the “Watch in High Quality” link never shows up right away on YouTube? Isn’t that annoying???? I thought it was. So I wrote this little bookmarklet to allow me to switch any video I’m on to HQ immediately....