There are two defines in wp-config.php of WordPress website, which determine character set and collation of tables.
MySQL tables – character set and collation
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Flexible Columns
In this article, I’m going to explain how to format a division as multi-column. Only CSS Flexbox will be used. I’m amazed how CSS Flexbox is powerful, and easy.
Shortcode to display plugins info for their author
With this shortcode, getting information about plugins of an author, is easy.
HTML5 Forms Validation
INTRODUCTION My research is based on following assumptions: WordPress version supports HTML5 Go to any admin page and inspect the resulting document. It should start with: Theme supports HTML5 for comments To be sure, add this to theme’s functions.php: ANALYSIS Let’s display and inspect any post with a comment form in it. The markup for […]
How to get complete MySQL version in WordPress
There are two ways of getting MySQL version in WordPress. First (popular) is to use $wpdb global object and its db_version() method. Second (less known) is to use $wpdb global object combined with its two properties use_mysqli and dbh plus two PHP functions mysql_get_server_info() and mysqli_get_server_info(). Before going any further, let’s have a look at […]
Themes and FPW Category Thumbnails
What should I do if my theme does not support post thumbnails? Can your plugin still be used? Can FPW Category Thumbnails plugin display thumbnails? I’ve been asked these question so often that I felt it deserves some action. There are numerous good free themes not providing post thumbnails support at all. Should we stop […]
FPW Category Thumbnails 1.4.6 released
New version 1.4.6 of the plugin had been released today. New feature requested by one of users has been implemented. Now you can assign authors’ pictures to the category. How does it work? If you assign Author as an image id to the category then post / page author’s picture will be used as a […]
Fighting spam – How is it going?
Back in September, in the post Spam – What are we going to do? I’ve declared my personal war with spammers. Now it’s time for a summary of actions taken and their results. Initially my line of defence consisted of Akismet plugin from Automattic. It did an excellent job of identifying and marking unwanted comments […]
Spam – What are we going to do?
People say that I am the most patient person on earth. But there are limits to even an extreme patience. I am talking about spam comments on this website. Long time ago I’ve made my decision to keep this website open. No registration required. No obstacles for people willing to see it, to comment on […]