Author: Justin Silver

Admin Columns Pro SSL Upgrade Fix

I use the Admin Columns Pro plugin on several of my WordPress site to easily customize the layout in my admin tables. As it is a premium plugin updates to it are not hosted...

Fix Backslashes in Advanced Custom Fields

There is a somewhat serious bug in Advanced Custom Fields 5.0 and its handling of backslashes, at least on my WordPress installs. The problem is that the slashes are stripped, but after the data...

W3 Total Cache Fragment Caching in WordPress

W3 Total Cache, also known as W3TC, is a very powerful caching plugin for WordPress which is notoriously slow without tuning. For guest users much of your content will typically be static which makes...

Extract a tar.xz file on CentOS and RedHat

This guide will show you how to extract a tar.xz file on CentOS or RedHat, and probably other flavors of Linux as well. Traditionally compressed archive files are distributed on Linux systems as tar.gz...

ACF validate_value Filter With post_ID

Advanced Custom Forms Pro 5.0 is out, and it contains a major overhaul to the way that custom fields are handled. It also had a major impact on the way that third-party add-ons were...

Upgrade wget on CentOS 5

As time progresses some of my VPS machines are starting to show their age running CentOS 5. As CentOS is based on Redhat, the yum repositories often contain older versions of binaries with bugs...