Force Download in WordPress for PDF files
This was actually rocket science. Or it felt like it. It should have been quick and simple. Took me a bit more than I would like to admit. So we had a WordPress site with a lot of downloadable PDFs.…
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WordPress Backdoor for Hackers to try to Login
I work for an ecommerce company. We don’t sell through our website but we do have a very customized, powerful WordPress site to tell people about what we do. It was one of my first WordPress themes that I ever…
Display menu descriptions with HTML in WordPress
One of these days I’ll get around to finishing the Wedding recap post I started….ehh months ago. Today is not that day. So we are updating our navigation look and feel on our WordPress website. With that new look, it…
Changing permissions to just files or folders
So I was debugging something on WordPress and because I wanted something to work, I changed the plugin folder to 777. While that didn’t solve my problem, when my problem was fixed later, I needed to undo my change. For…
WordPress Command Line Interface
OMG it's been a year since my last update. So bad of me and so much has changed! Personal life is for a different post. This is all about the developer part.
Two years ago, I was working on a customed plugin that made calls to NASDAQ. There were a LOT of cron commands making API calls for updates. I found out pretty early that the 'Run now' button doesn't do what it says if there are 2 minutes or so before the next scheduled run. This became really annoying really quickly. Then, I had the most recent updates to plugins, I could turn on debug just fine and get errors to log just fine and dandy.