Tag: Beginner

WordPress: Allow users to upload images by role without a plugin

If you allow guest blogging on your WordPress installation, or you want someone to act as a contributor to your site – by contributor I mean create post for review adding images and files at the same time – some WordPress roles have restriction on file uploads. The most obvious solution is to install a roles […]

HTML5: Set X-UA-Compatible rendering mode validating the document

A  feature added to Internet Explorer 8 (IE8 ), is the ability to change the browser rendering  mode by adding a meta tag <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”edge” /> inside the document header tag. This is a great feature that allows you to display websites properly, but there is one small problem, adding the tag will break the W3C validation of the website. […]

WordPress Security tips: Avoid getting your site hacked

Here is a check list for your next WordPress installation to improve the changes of the site begin hacked. Change your database prefix “wp_” Don’t use the username “admin” Use a strong password 8+ characters symbols letters and numbers Change the wp_settings.php file permissions to 0644 Whenever possible move the wp_settings.php file one directory up. Install the Login LockDown […]

CSS: Changing The Default background and Text Selection Color

The text selection CSS3 pseudo-element will allow you to change the default text and background color when the content is being selected. Currently supported by FireFox, Safari, Chrome, IE9+ and Opera support. Browsers that don’t support it will ignore the code. Try it out! on your next project just add the following selectors to your CSS […]