Basic WordPress Terminology: What the Layperson Should Know

October 8, 2015

WordPress proudly touts its user first design for ease of use, but on other end of the spectrum are the website owners. Even the owner of a simple website is instantly barraged with the seeming jumble of terms, acronyms, and phrases that make up a typical WordPress installation. An experienced WordPress website owner may not

Remove admin color scheme picker from WordPress Profiles

June 12, 2015

If you want to clean up the WordPress user profile page in wp-admin by removing the color scheme picker here is a quick snippet that will do the task quickly for you. [php] remove_action( ‘admin_color_scheme_picker’, ‘admin_color_scheme_picker’ ); [/php]

Add HTML tags to the allowed tags list in WordPress

May 21, 2015

By default WordPress limits what HTML tags are allowed in post content. If tags that are not whitelisted are found in the content they will be stripped. It is possible add additional tags to the allowed list. View allowed tags To view the list of currently allowed tags you can use the following code: [php]

Script to convert MySQL collation from utf8mb4 to utf8

May 11, 2015

I ran into a strange situation with WordPress where the MySQL server did not support utf8mb4. I needed to quickly convert the tables back to utf8 to get the site running again. Though this script does work I highly recommend if you are running WordPress that you upgrade your MySQL server to support utf8mb4 for

Remove untracked local files from Git

April 4, 2015

If you have need to get rid of a bunch of files that are in your git repo but not yet tracked it can be tedious to do the job one file at a time. Git has you covered with the git clean command. Warning: This is a permanent loss of files. Always use –dry-run