A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers. This is accomplished by blocking the connection(s) that supplies these little gems. This is a simple script that downloads a new hosts file for your operating system and redirects all requests for […]
This is a quick way to remove dashboard widgets in WordPress. These are some of the widgets I hide on one of my WordPress installations by adding these lines to the theme functions.php file. To hide other widgets, view the source code for the Dashboard and search for their label value. add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘rw_remove_dashboard_widgets’); function rw_remove_dashboard_widgets() […]
If you download and install many WordPress themes you will sometimes find themes that have encrypted lines or variables in the footer part of the theme, in the functions.php file or other included theme files. I do not trust these lines of code and would not use a theme without knowing what code is being […]
This post describes how I managed to recreate empty WordPress 3.0 permalink post slugs with the post title of the blog posts using a slightly modified version of the script found on another blog post named Bulk update post slugs in a wordpress blog. This script became handy since some of my post slugs was […]
A typical FAQ about URL rewriting is how to redirect failing requests on webserver A to webserver B. Usually this is done via ErrorDocument CGI-scripts in Perl, but there is also a mod_rewrite solution. But notice that this performs more poorly than using an ErrorDocument CGI-script! Place this in your httpd.conf og .htaccess file on […]