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Posted on May 5, 2013 at 8:37 pm by The Doctor and modified on May 8, 2013 at 7:48 pm.
Make WordPress Login Form Shortcode
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This is more or less straight-forward in its approach, but first a little back up documentation: add_shortcode – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode wp_login_form – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_login_form wp_parse_args – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_parse_args You might want to take a moment to read through the above links … The basic concept here is to create a function which will return the login form as …∞
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Posted on April 13, 2013 at 1:50 pm by The Doctor
Changing WordPress Admin Username
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Since WordPress version 3.0 you have been able to pick your “admin” username on installation but there are still many sites that have been running WordPress since before June 2010. A few months prior to the release of “Thelonious” (WordPress 3.0) I wrote an article on how to change your “admin” username. Now, with the …∞
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Posted on April 12, 2013 at 3:11 pm by The Doctor
Using Tri-Account Security
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Once again the specter of “brute-force” attacks on WordPress self-hosted installations is creeping around which brings me to revisiting the idea of Tri-Account Security™ and how to implement it for an exiting site. If you recall reading the article back in March 2012 then you may also recall this ideal was put forward under the …∞
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Said on March 11, 2013 at 10:32 am by The Doctor
Local Jetpack
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Although I use Jetpack on many sites, to be quite honest it still leaves something to be desired in some areas. Fortunately the Jetpack developers are very responsive and make great efforts to improve the plugin with every release. The latest improvement (at least in the current development version) is the ability to add a …∞
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Said on March 2, 2013 at 10:59 am by The Doctor
WordPress Permalinks and WAMP
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Just a quick note, if you find changing your default permalinks to something prettier is not working in your WAMP environment you may need to make an edit in your httpd.conf file. Open the httpd.conf file with a text editor and search for rewrite. You will be looking for the following line: #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so …∞
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Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:58 pm by The Doctor
Full Width Post-Format Video
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Although there are great jQuery plugins available, sometimes a simple little script will do the job just as well. In this case, I would like to share the JavaScript that is being used in the WordPress framework theme Opus Primus for displaying videos that fill the entire width of the content area. Here is the …∞
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Posted on January 8, 2013 at 10:15 am by The Doctor and modified on January 8, 2013 at 2:18 pm.
Change Twenty Twelve Home Menu Name
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The WordPress default menu functions offers a great many features and options, some of which can be difficult to modify without delving into the code itself. For example, if a theme author chooses to turn “on” the “show_home” option in the default menus such as Twenty Twelve does in its functions.php template file with this …∞
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Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:10 am by The Doctor
Good Bye Spammers
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Although I consider it to be part of the regular day-to-day active preventative maintenance involved in web site management I still find it time consuming, or better said time wasting, to manage the seemingly never-ending stream of spam comments. The time has come to step up my proactive measures to reduce spam. As WordPress is …∞
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Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:42 pm by The Doctor
Self-Deactivate WordPress Plugins
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I recently wrote a new plugin, BNS Bio. Version 0.1 was released (and currently available on the WordPress Extend Plugins repository) as a teaching aide to be used with a presentation I was doing for the WordPress GTA Meetup group. Now, since this is version 0.1 of the plugin it is really not much more …∞
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Posted on March 30, 2013 at 4:31 pm by The Doctor
Filtering The Comment Required Field Symbol
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A few days ago, I submitted a ticket to the WordPress core trac to Filter Glyph for Comment Required Fields. The idea behind the patch I submitted being: Currently the comment-template.php file uses an asterisk (*) as the default glyph for required fields used in the comment_form() function. This glyph is not easily manipulated without …∞
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