I was recently helping a client setup and configure their Magento newsletter module, and worked to help them get a large part of their subscriber base imported into Magento from external sources. To accomplish this, I created a newsletter subscribers import script for Magento that helped them accomplish a quick import of their subscriber base that existed outside of their Magento installation.
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Have you ever wanted to use a WordPress shortcode in a text widget, or have you ever attempted to do so with undesired results? I have, and wanted to re-share a common little code snippet that allows you to use a WordPress shortcode from your theme or plugin within a text widget!
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When using the Quick Edit feature of WordPress (verified in versions 3.7, 3.7.1, and 3.8) on any post in a ‘Draft’ status, the publish date will set itself to the date and time the Quick Edit occurred, leading to an invalid and incorrect published date when the publish of the post finally occurs.
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Recently when analyzing my own web site I discovered that the pages sizes on my web site were coming in at around 1.2 MB to 1.5 MB total in size. These page sizes completely shocked me! I don’t use an overabundance of graphics, nor did I consider my content to be extremely heavy, so I was a little concerned about what was causing the increased bloat. So, to begin, I started looking at the possible culprits, and worked to identify what was causing the insanely high page sizes, and I encountered a shocking find. A single plugin was contributing to the shocking page sizes, and that plugin was Jetpack for WordPress.
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In addition to blocking the comment spam bots that don’t include a HTTP_REFERER header indicating the request came from your web site, as indicated in a previous posting Fight Back Against WordPress Comment Spam with a HTTP_REFERER Check, additional steps can be taken to combat comment spam. This post will discuss the addition of a nonce field to your comment form that verifies the request came from your web site and not from somewhere else.
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