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:...

Using Cforms II, when I select font17.ttf as the captcha font (the one that looks comic book style) it will not validate…ever. I continue to get the message “Please double-check your verification code.” If I switch fonts, it validates just fine. This has nothing to do with disabling other plugins and using default theme, as I have attempted all of that in order to track down what was causing this issue. I’m now using...

CForms II is an extremely robust and useful plugin for WordPress. One of the main frustrations I’ve noticed people have with it is the lack of optgroup support with select boxes. I wrote this little piece of JQuery code that will allow you to enable optgroup: if($(".cform").length!=0){ $(".cform select option").each(function(){ if($(this).val() == "groupstart"){ var label = $(this).text(); ...

If you are using the instructions found on Bluehost’s Knowledgebase about How to host the Primary Domain from a subfolder for a wordpress site, you may notice that when you add wp-admin to the end of your URL it seems that can’t log in. The issue is that there are so much redirect magic going on, that the correct handling of redirecting /wp-admin without a slash to /wp-admin/ with a slash doesn’t happen correctly. You can...

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 They all seem pretty out of date and are lacking in specific instructions.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...