Spam Filtering and Contact Form 7 (WordPress)
The forms plugin Contact Form 7 for WordPress offers spam filtering with Akismet. They provide 3 options to add to the appropriate fields in your form: akismet:author akismet:author_email akismet:author_url This is great and these are options that allow Akismet to check these specific inputs against their data. However, you would of course want other data [...]
Read moreHow to Upload VCF to WordPress for Download via Media Uploader
Uploading and serving V-Card .vcf files from WordPress is a two step process. Step one is adding the MIME type to WordPress so that you can upload your .vcf file with the WordPress Media Uploader. Step two is using Apache’s AddType (these are instructions for a LAMP stack installation by the way) to set the [...]
Read moreHow to find out if a WordPress upgrade contains database changes
If for example one was to upgrade from the last most recent version of WordPress 3.4 to 3.4.1 and wanted to know if the upgrade contains any database changes, you would do the following: 1. first visit the WP version page of the codex: ie. http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.1 2. look for a line describing any database changes: [...]
Read moreList WordPress administrator Account Names
The SQL for selecting a list of WordPress users with the role of “administrator”: SELECT um.user_id AS ID, u.user_login FROM wp_users u, wp_usermeta um WHERE u.ID = um.user_id AND um.meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’ AND um.meta_value LIKE ‘%administrator%’ ORDER BY um.user_id Simply use the above SQL Query via command line or through something like phpMyAdmin or your [...]
Read moreHow I Broadcast my WordPress Blog Posts to Twitter
There are a number of WordPress Plugins that appear to allow you to auto-post your WordPress blog posts to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. However, I am going with a service called dlvr.it to help me post my WordPress blog posts to Twitter. It’s a simple matter of adding your source, in this case your WordPress [...]
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