This afternoon’s hobby project was to convert my WordPress blog into a static site using Hugo.
Memento mori
One day you will be gone. What defines your legacy, is not the gadgets you had, but what impact you left behind.
Install and update translations in WordPress with Composer
Using Composer is a great way of organizing your WordPress project, with WordPress itself, plugins and themes declared as dependencies. However, an issue I’ve often seen is how you install translation files and keep them updated.
Wildcard certificate from Let’s Encrypt with CloudFlare DNS
If you’re using CloudFlare to host your DNS, there is a plugin for the official Let’s Encrypt client Certbot you can use to easily acquire and renew wildcard certificates from Let’s Encrypt.
Debug and profile your WordPress sites with Xdebug in Local by Flywheel (using PhpStorm)
This article is not an introduction to neither Xdebug, Local by Flywheel nor PhpStorm, but shows you how you can get started with debugging and profiling your WordPress sites in PhpStorm when using Local by Flywheel as a local development environment. You should already know what Xdebug is before reading this article. This is how you get started with Xdebug in Local by Flywheel.{{ double-space-with-newline }}
Gravity Forms personal data exporter and eraser
When WordPress 4.9.6 launched on May 17, 2018 it came with new tools for exporting and erasing personal data that you may have collected (you know, GDPR and all). But Gravity Forms as of version 2.3.2 doesn’t integrate with these tools. Fortunately, it is really easy to write your own exporters and erasers.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6389 – the load-scripts.php DoS “attack” in WordPress
A little sensationalist written blog post by Barak Tawily claims that WordPress is vulnerable to a DoS attack because of the load-scripts.php file which concatenates JavaScript files on the fly.
HTTP/2 Push WordPress Assets to First-Time Visitors
With HTTP/2 push you can effectively send a web page’s assets to the client before the client even knows about them. Here’s how you can HTTP/2 push WordPress assets to your first-time visitors.{{ double-space-with-newline }}
Another day, another “WordPress security vulnerability”
OMFG, BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of WordPress sites affected by some vulnerability.{{ double-space-with-newline }}
Welcome to WordCamp Oslo 2018
On March 2–4 2018, Friday through Sunday, there will be a great chance to meet WordPressers at the conference WordCamp Oslo 2018.