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Host Your Own Custom WordPress Plugin Auto-Updater

The Problem The biggest appeal WordPress has is it’s extensibility via plugins. But if you create a plugin for personal use or for a corporation with a very specific purpose, you may not want to go through the process of having it submitted, approved, and available for the world on the WordPress Plugin repository. So what’s wrong with just hosting your plugin .zip file and providing a link for convenient access? One answer:...

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CForms II, Bluehost and the From: address

There are several forum posts, articles, and help from bluehost attempting to explain how to get the default address on Bluehost to send to something besides user@***.bluehost.com when using CForms II plugin for WordPress. However, I had no success with following them. They all seem pretty out of date and are lacking in specific instructions. So, I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here, I’m just trying to sum up exactly what I...

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BB Moderation Hold plugin w/ BB Press version 1.0+

It appears that the BB Moderation Hold plugin hasn’t updated for newer versions of BB Press. The moderation links are not appearing in the admin navigation and when you click “moderate” from within the post itself as a moderator it redirects to the homepage rather than taking you to the moderation pages. The fix for both issues is rather simple, but requires editing the php code in the plugin itself. Simply open up...

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parsing XML with PHP on Apache2 server with apache-mod_php installed

There are many examples of how to parse through an XML document using PHP out on the web by doing a quick google search. I was having problems because even while following all of those examples, I was getting the following error: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xml_parser_create() Everywhere I searched said “you need to recompile PHP and use –with-xml and it will get rid of this error. Well, I didn’t compile...

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