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Creating a wordpress plugin is a lot easier than it might first seem. As long as you know how to write PHP code (or any similar language) you should be able to get a plugin together pretty quickly. The aim of this tutorial is to show you how to create a basic template for a…
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Had a look around online and couldnt find any decent SMTP plugin for sending and receiving emails through wordpress. Seems like it makes a lot of people angry for wordpress to do such a thing which seemed odd, so I decided to start working on one myself. The goal of this plugin is to add…
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Most standard PDO tutorials from around the web are going to demonstrate using a MySQL database with apache as a web host. The PDO connection string for this setup is not going to work if you want to connect to a SQL Server database using Microsofts IIS server. The first step is to make sure…
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There are lots of ways to validate a link click. If you are programming a website that will be used by a large number of clients, then you will need to use a more secure method of validating user clicks. This is a very simple way of implementing this. If you are looking to prevent…
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So you have hit the issue where you have a responsive website and everything looks great, but then you notice that embeded videos do not correctly fit within your responsive design. Fear not this can be quickly fixed by adding a div around all of your embeded videos and a little bit of css to…
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Reverse DNS is a common method used to help keep your emails out of the dreaded spam filters. Fortunately, once you know how, reverse DNS is a quick and easy way to improve the trustability of your emails. Reverse DNS alone is not enough to guarantee that your emails will successfully make it to a…
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Drag and drop is cool, but for me i found that it was causing more trouble than good. So if you are like me and are sick of accidentally dropping a folder into another sub directory, then it's best to just disable it completely. Unfortunately this cannot be done directly using the init settings (at…
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DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a process used to validate emails preventing someone from sending spam email using an unauthorised email address. The process works using 2 encrypted SSL keys. A public key which is obviously made available to the public and a private key which only you / your web server will know. When…
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When trying to upload any files i was getting an error "could not acquire lock for ...". I initially thought this was some sort of permission error since it makes sense. I tried setting the permissions for the entire images folder to 777 and made sure the ownership of the directories was correct, yet it…