WordPress

For nearly ten years now, i’ve loved open source soft­ware, some­thing which began when i dis­cov­ered phpBB when cre­at­ing a Chris­t­ian mes­sage board. Times cer­tainly have changed; today, i’m far more inter­ested in Word­Press, and that whole “Chris­t­ian” thing turned out to be a phase.

Today, i do things with Word­Press, and i believe in shar­ing what i know is capa­ble with the plat­form so that more folks may be empow­ered to pub­lish with it. (The power of the press has always been able to sway nations; online pub­lish­ing, such as via Word­Press, allows all of us to participate.)

Below, you’ll find a wide vari­ety of tips, tricks, code snip­pets, and more allow­ing you to take total con­trol of your Word­Press installation(s). Note that the con­tent here will be tai­lored to those instal­la­tions already get­ting the most out of Word­Press by using the The­sis theme from DIYthemes.

One of the pri­mary rea­sons i’m endeav­or­ing to col­lect this code here is that i’m tired of see­ing snip­pets of code offered by the hun­dreds on sites which are poorly doc­u­mented, poorly explained, inse­cure, or alto­gether bro­ken. I’m mak­ing every effort to ensure that code offered here is secure and doc­u­mented, and if it isn’t, you are invited to cor­rect me via comments!

Devel­op­ment

• Make phpinfo() Read­ily Avail­able within WordPress

Opti­miza­tion

• Remove the “Send Track­backs” Post Meta Box

Post­ing

• Allow Unfil­tered Uploads for Site Admins — For when you just gotta upload that PHP file.

Short­codes

• [email], the Email Obfus­ca­tion Shortcode
• [snap], the Web­site Snap­shot Shortcode

Secu­rity

• Dis­able Word­Press Admin File Changes — Dis­able the back­end file edi­tors and/or plugin/theme add/update/delete capabilities.
• Gener­i­cize Word­Press Login Errors — Use the same error mes­sage whether pass­word or user­name is input incorrectly.