Would you like to embed and run some PHP code in a blog post? Need to include a PHP file in a sidebar widget? Recently discovered this curious plugin? Don’t, you’re about to make an awful mistake. Lets walk through why it’s bad, and what you should be doing instead. Why Might Somebody Embed PHP? Perhaps you […]
Part of my job at WordPress VIP is review. It takes up a lot of my time, and it’s critical work. Before code reaches our servers it needs to be vetted and peer reviewed to vouch that it’s fast, safe, and secure. Every developer makes mistakes ( even VIP developers ), so we peer review […]
Sometimes a client makes a blog post, and puts a photo in the middle. All good so far, until you realise the client has dragged an image from their brand new camera expecting a 10 Megapixel image to work. This is usually when people start talking about upload max file size limits, but this is […]
Sometimes it’s useful to know when an image or audio attachment is added. Here I’ll outline how to send an emailwhen it happens. How It Works We start by hooking into add_attachment, and grabbing the user IDs of all administrators: // send to admins of the current blog/site $args = array(); $args[0] = ‘user_email’; $wp_user_search […]
It’s important to keep WordPress up to date, but keeping track of all your sites can be a struggle. I recently had to list and check every site for updates, but I couldn’t use a service such as WP Remote. It had to be locally or private hosted. So I turned to Google Docs! Here […]