by Justin Bennett | Jul 19, 2013 | PHP, Wordpress
One of the important ways in which we protect websites from hackers, spammers, and other such baddies is by preventing them from injecting malicious code into our databases. WordPress provides us with some built in security functions that stop this type of thing by...
by Justin Bennett | Mar 10, 2013 | PHP, Wordpress
Sometimes we may want to present our data in an unordered fashion, avoiding alphabetical or date based sorting. For example, creating a “Featured” list of articles that changes upon each page load by choosing a handful at random from our database. Another...
by Justin Bennett | Aug 24, 2012 | MySQL, Wordpress
Moving MySQL databases from one server to another is usually a pretty painless and relatively easy process when the phpMyAdmin tool is available on the hosting servers. An unforeseen hiccup recently presented itself to me when trying to move a WordPress MySQL database...
by Justin Bennett | Aug 8, 2012 | PHP, Wordpress
A WordPress project I’m currently working on presented me with a situation that I soon realized was calling for a custom WordPress shortcode. In a future post I’ll cover the process of creating a custom shortcode, but for today I’ll share a quick tip...
by Justin Bennett | Sep 9, 2011 | Wordpress
WordPress has really made some huge leaps forward in recent versions making it a truly powerful content management system. Not coincidentally, WordPress custom theme design and development has really become a passion of mine… one of the fruits of which is a...