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“Hi, you don’t know me, but my friend says you’re really good with web stuff.  Someone told me my web site is trying to send them a virus, can you help?” Ever gotten one of those emails?  I get one every couple months.  There are some excellent documents on how to deal with it here…

I’ve recently discovered the joy of transients in WordPress.  You can read about them here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Transients_API.  It’s a method of caching bits of information.  If you have an object cache on your server like memcache, it’ll store it there, otherwise it stores it in the database. You may wonder why I’d want to store the…

The other day I had a custom content type of things for sale.  There’s a meta field for marking it Sold.  On my archive page I didn’t want to include Sold items, so I went hunting for the proper query_posts() bit to put in the top of my archive template. What I found was several…

Jetpack is a plugin offered by WordPress.com, and it contains a variety of services, each of which can be activated or deactivated within Jetpack, depending on what you want to use. One of the features is web site statistics.  You create a WordPress.com account and then associate it with your Jetpack plugin.  Then Jetpack keeps…

Recently I found the need to make a new image size in WordPress, other than the usual “Thumbnail”, “Medium”, “Large”, and “Full”. It’s not very difficult, you simply need to use the function add_image_size in your theme function file, a custom plugin, or an mu-plugins file. It takes 4 options, 3 are required.  The first…