In an ideal world, it would be easy to change the wp-admin folder name. While that’s not really possible without some hacking of WordPress, there are a variety of things you can do to secure wp-admin a little bit more. I’m not going to get into trying to rename this folder, as until there is
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Sometimes I’ll do an update to some DNS setting, change the hosts file, something along those lines, and my DNS cache needs clearing for Chrome. Typically I would just restart the browser, but that can be annoying if you have a lot of windows open. I found a couple of ways to do this though
Ever wanted to lock down a directory behind a simple user/password system? If your web server is run with Apache, you can password protect a directory quite easily with your .htaccess file. .htaccess AuthType Basic AuthName “Password Protected” AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd require valid-user The important part to note above is AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd. That provides the path
When someone shares an image from your WordPress blog to Facebook, they usually do a pretty good job of guessing which image is the right image to turn into a thumbnail, but did you know you can set the image so Facebook doesn’t have to guess? In header.php before the closing head tag, add the
Quick Breakdown query_posts – don’t use except in rare edge cases pre_get_posts – use if you want to alter the default query on a page new WP_Query – use to get different results from the main query get_posts – same as WP_Query, just returns results in array format instead query_posts Using query_posts is not recommended
I wanted to check the date of a photo I’d taken a while back, but as it turns out, there is no way to check this information built in to your iPhone. There are a number of paid apps out there that will do this if you already have one, like iPhoto. If you don’t
This should work for creating a ringtone for both iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5. There are special programs and such out there for this, but they are pretty unnecessary as it is a fairly easy process. Open up iTunes and browse to your music section. Select the song that you want to turn
The ti.charts module that you can find in the Appcelerator marketplace is for iOS only. I wanted a lightweight solution that could function on both Android and iOS and provide the most common of charts, bar, line, pie, etc. The simplest way to go about this was for me to use a charting javascript library
I recently was customizing an install of WordPress and we were using several different custom post types. We actually decided against using the default post type just for clarity’s sake. Its a simple matter to remove an item from the WordPress administrative menu. The following code should be added in your theme’s functions.php file. Remove
Sometimes the simplest things just don’t have the proper documentation and I noticed a lack of information on doing something as simple as implementing the AdMob module in Appcelerator. This is one of the first tasks I did when starting to learn Appcelerator, and while simple enough, involves a couple of different steps to make
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- Securing WP-admin Directory in WordPress
- Clear DNS Cache in Google Chrome
- Password Protect Directory with .htaccess
- Set Facebook Share Image Thumbnail in WordPress
- WP_Query vs query_posts vs get_posts vs pre_get_posts
- How to Check Date of Photo iPhone
- Set a Song as a Ringtone on your iPhone
- Displaying Charts with Titanium Appcelerator
- Remove Default Post Type From Admin Menu WordPress
- Adding Google Admob Module to Titanium Appcelerator