Web Development Archive
21 Jan 2014
WordPress Site Hacked – Scan Your Files for Malicious Code
WordPress is one of the most common CMS / blogging platforms available today. It’s free, robust, and easy to use. This makes it a big target for hackers. They setup automated scripts to try and hack you either through WordPress itself, brute force attempts, plugin vulnerabilities, or other means. You can harden your website using
21 Jan 2014
How to Easily Make Local Copy of a Website
There are occasions where you sometimes want to copy an entire website onto your local computer. The range of difficulty for this varies from website to website. How much of it is backend-dependent? Do you have FTP access? Are paths relative or absolute? Etc, etc. Assuming you have absolutely no support from the website owner,
17 Jan 2014
Bootstrap 3: Change Stacking Order
Changing the stacking order of columns in Twitter’s Bootstrap 3 is actually easier than you may think. Excited yet? Calm down. Below is an example situation where you may want to change the stacking order. We have a nice 2 column row that has text on the left and an image on the right. This
15 Jan 2014
WordPress – Remove WordPress Upgrade Notice
Ah, the beloved upgrade notice. It’s always a nice encounter. It fixes bugs and, occasionally, introduces new features, to the beloved WordPress CMS. While I’m always for upgrading whenever possible, there are those who would like to stay with the version they have. This may be for reasons such as developers modifying the core WP
06 Jan 2014
JavaScript – Execute Function After Page Loads – The Best Way!
A lot of people will shrug this off and just use jQuery’s $(document).load with jQuery. Well, sometimes you don’t want to use a whole library and want to use a standard JavaScript solution. You may be thinking then — okay, I’ll go ahead and use window.onload() Well, depending on what you are doing…that won’t work!
13 Dec 2013
Solution: Padding Doesn’t Show Before / After Linewrap
There are many weird quirks that you encounter as a web developer. Generally, they are small things that you would not likely expect to occur. And these small things seem very obvious and trivial to fix. So obvious, that after you try all the things that first come to mind, that you may overlook perhaps
12 Dec 2013
New Release: WordPress 3.8
WordPress 3.8 came out recently. You may be wondering — is it a big release? No, it’s not. WordPress has reached a state where most of how it’s setup is pretty much perfect. And so, the dramatic changes that were seen in previous iterations are now less likely. That doesn’t mean that updates don’t bring
05 Dec 2013
CSS Reset VS Normalize.css – Learn The Difference
Ever wonder what the difference between a CSS Reset and Normalize.css is? Good. Being curious is awesome. I’ll try to help explain the difference between the two and also provide some CSS Resets that are popular. What are CSS Resets A CSS Reset is exactly what it sounds like. It removes all styles from components
03 Dec 2013
WordPress: Check If Last Post In Loop
WordPress really is one of the best, user-friendly CMS’s / blogging platforms to have ever been created. Everything is easily accomplished (generally) and their documentation is great. You will, however, run into small issues when developing, that leave you going “huhhhhh”? This may be one of those small issues. So let’s get on to addressing
03 Dec 2013
Guide: How To Transfer Users From One WordPress Blog To Another
Today, I needed to move accounts over from one WordPress website to another. It was on a different web host, different database, and different domain. How does one go about doing this? Well, it’s easier than you may think. To make things easier, let’s do some labeling… Website A is the website with the accounts