The tech world is a fast-paced force to be reckoned with. It constantly evolves and sprouts new phrases, terms, and many other things to learn about. Sometimes navigating the online world can be intimidating. It’s often overwhelming to try and understand which websites are safe and secure, which ones you should avoid, and how to […]
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Creating a WordPress plugin is not necessarily a difficult task for an experienced WordPress developer, but I recently found an easier way to create one quickly. What I really like about it is that I didn’t have to sacrifice good coding standards and good WordPress standards. It also allowed me to keep a structured approach
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Once I got the OAuth working for Zoho , I could use the Zoho API version 2.0. I wanted to add a new Lead to Zoho from my website. I couldn’t find any examples of this, but I finally figured it out. This is the code that worked for me: Again, this wouldn’t work until
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Recently, the Google Chrome browser has started notifying users of the browser when they land on a site as to whether that site is secure or not. That message shows up in the top left of the browser address bar. If you want your website to show Google Chrome users that your site is secure,
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I was having a problem with my own website. Some of the blog posts had the wrong comments showing up under them. In other words, under blog post 1, the comments for blog post 2 were showing up – completely off topic. I first changed the theme back to the twentyseventeen theme. The problem went
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We’ve recently put up our new WordPress website complete with a new facelift. We are excited about it! One thing I noticed is that it seemed to be running a bit slow. We are using quite a few plugins to make it look and work like we want it, and I have to admit, WordPress
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Use this plugin instead: WP Better Emails There’s not much setup involved. Just install and activate the plugin. You can modify the emails, but they work pretty good out of the box, so unless you really need to make changes, and you know what you are doing, I wouldn’t suggest changing anything. I changed the
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For web applications, as opposed to public facing web sites, for which we use WordPress, we usually use Laravel for our php framework. I am in love with Laravel. It just makes programming and web development fun again. It also allows me to focus on the business logic without starting from scratch for every project.
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A domain name is a pointer to the address of your website. The real address to your website is an IP (internet protocol) address, which is a number in this format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x’s are numbers such as 127.0.0.1 or 205.96.453.999 Since numbers are hard for most of us to remember, we have domain
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A year or two ago I did some work for a client with the Zoho API version 1.0. Now, they’ve deprecated that API version and will stop supporting it soon, so I must upgrade to version 2 of the API. Version 2.0 of the Zoho API uses OAuth for authentication which is not something I
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