Faye Bridgewrites on February 1, 2016 Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of January 25, 2016. COURSES Introduction to HTML and CSS – Treasure Porth Get started creating web pages with HTML and CSS, the basic building blocks of […]
READ MOREThe enormous strides that WordPress has taken as a platform in the past 12 years have been mirrored by developments around the language it’s written in: PHP. Though new languages and frameworks grab the headlines every couple of months, PHP still powers the vast majority of the consumer-facing web. It’s a language that has attracted more […]
READ MOREWordPress allows us to do so much in terms of building websites without knowing any code. With themes and plugins and a powerful admin area there is a lot we can do without typing any HTML, CSS, JS or PHP. However, at a certain point you need to get into the code to really customize […]
READ MOREThis post is part of a series on Sanitization with the WordPress Settings API. Here is Part 1. Yesterday, I started talking about how to sanitize multiple values with the WordPress Settings API. The idea behind the post was to kick off a short series of additional posts that expand on some of the object-oriented […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a series of posts on An Object-Oriented Approach to the WordPress Settings API. With the proliferation of the The Customizer, I don’t know what the fate of the Settings API will be as WordPress moves forward, but I know that it’s not going to go anywhere soon and […]
READ MOREOccasionally, I’ll get questions via Twitter or email from those who are working with the Settings API and aren’t sure why certain values are saving when they shouldn’t actually be saving. For example, say you have an input field that’s asking for, say, a company’s name. You obviously want to sanitize the data to make […]
READ MOREYesterday, I was chatting with a fellow WordPress developer and, as we were reviewing some code, we came across the use of maybe_unserialize. You can read more about it in the Codex, but the short of it is this: Unserialize value only if it was serialized. Seems a little odd, doesn’t it? I mean, shouldn’t we know […]
READ MOREThis week’s round-up of WordPress news, views and reviews summarized in our daily email newsletter, The WhiP. Subscribe to The Whip for daily lashings of WordPress goodness. Far Flung Places (WordPress News) Automattic has pocketed $25,000 after winning a court battle against a man who abused the DMCA to censor written by a student journalist. […]
READ MOREOne of the biggest challenges that comes with working with PHP and WordPress is determining which version of PHP to use. From the WordPress.org Requirements page: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater (recommended: PHP 5.4 or greater) With respect to PHP, a lot has changed between 5.2.4 and 5.4. And the problem, for developers, usually comes […]
READ MOREIf you’re in the business of building plugins – regardless of if it’s for fun or profit – the odds that you’re eventually going to have to read the contents of a file are relatively high. This could be for importing data from a file, this could be for parsing data out of something that […]
READ MOREBootPress is a content management system that has all of the features you would expect and hope for, but without any of the bloat or complexity you have come to expect and coped with, until now! BootPress is simple. All you have to manage are files, and only one file per page at that. You […]
READ MOREI woke up this morning to the sound of thousands of 404 requests hitting the server. It’s sad that there are kiddies out there who have nothing better to do than buy some pathetic $50 script and then sit there like an imbecile harassing people for hours on end. But alas, that is the world […]
READ MOREUsing the New York Times API to Chart Occurrences in Headlines This weekend while at a conference, I discovered that the New York Times has a pretty deep developer API. It covers both their newspaper data as well as government and regional information. I played around with it a bit and found it very easy […]
READ MOREWhether you like it or not, there are scripts and bots out there hammering away at your sites with endless HTTP “POST” requests. POST requests are sort of the opposite of GET requests. Instead of getting some resource or file from the server, data is being posted or sent to it. To illustrate, normal surfing […]
READ MOREBy Dieter Petereit Posted in CSS, Javascript, PHP, Tools 0 comments Cody Lundquist, Australian with a Swedish sounding name, created a free asset-management based on PHP 5.3. Its feature-set is astounding, yet demands a special preliminary treatment of the websites, it’s supposed to be working on. Munee is able to manage any kind of possible […]
READ MOREThe new hype in programming is all about functional programming paradigms. Functional languages are used more and more in greater and better applications. Scala, Haskel, etc. are thriving and other, more conservative languages like Java started to adopt some of the functional programming paradigms (see closures in Java7 and lazy eval for lists in Java8). […]
READ MOREOur Agenda Introduction to the topic. Downloading and installing Xdebug on your local machine (Mac OS X 10.6.6+, MAMP 2.1.1). Integrating with PhpStorm. Practice debugging. What You Will Need A Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.6+. If you are on 10.8.X you may need to install XQuartz as Apple removed X11. If you are on […]
READ MOREPublished April 28, 2013 by Chris Coyier That would be pretty useful, right? Right now it’s very common to User Agent “sniff” when you want to make a server-side decision about what to give the client. But UA sniffing has always sucked and sucks more every day. What you really want to know is stuff […]
READ MOREWith the built-in styles provided to us by Twitter Bootstrap, designing a simple contact form becomes streamlined. When you’re looking to streamline your site even further, you might not even need a dedicated contact page if no other info would be found there. A modal box is a nice, unobtrusive alternative, and Bootstrap allows us […]
READ MOREEarly in 2012, a developer, named Egor Homakov, took advantage of a security hole at Github (a Rails app) to gain commit access to the Rails project. His intent was mostly to point out a common security issue with many Rails apps that results from a feature, known as mass assignment (and did so rather […]
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