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How to do damn near anything with WordPress

October 7, 2012 Stephanie Leary 15 Comments

A couple of the plugins listed here show up on Extend with warnings about not having been updated in the last two years. You can ignore those warnings. They haven't been updated because they were written correctly in the first place. Best Plugin for...? Great big list of best … [Read more...] about How to do damn near anything with WordPress

Featured, WordPress bbPress, buddypress, Custom Fields, custom post types, debugging, development, domain mapping, javascript, jquery, json, MIME types, multisite, oembed, performance, Plugins, post formats, scaling, security, taxonomies, themes

WordPress Hidden Gems: Hiding wp-config.php

September 27, 2010 Stephanie Leary 5 Comments

Your configuration file contains your database username and password, so it’s important to keep this file secure. If you are installing WordPress in your web root directory (such as public_html), you can move your wp-config.php file to the parent directory -- one that isn’t … [Read more...] about WordPress Hidden Gems: Hiding wp-config.php

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