Contact form 7 is one of my most trusted and used plugins when working with WordPress. In the age of microtransactions every internet industry has seemed to weaponize monetization. Every single app and utility has tweaked it’s format and hidden features behind paywalls. In such a day and age, a […]
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You’ll find the following block of code on a myriad of websites. In my years of working with WordPress I’ve seen some really bizarre post URLs. Things like the server name and full server path to the user directory all in front of the actual FQDN. For example: Serverbox21/home/users/johnsmith/public_html/ I’ve […]
Websites live and die by their design. One of the biggest aspects a web designer has control of is typography. As many websites passionately argue, there are many ‘do’s & don’ts’ of typography. Here is a great resource I recommend that helps a designer understand just how much thought and […]
According to statistics I found on the internet (lol) WordPress is 34% of all websites on the web. This translates to millions and millions of sites. As a professional working in the hosting industry I can vouch for the meteoric rise of WordPress. Over the years we decommissioned many Windows […]
Step 1: Have access to the MySQL Database If you don’t have MySQL access this trick won’t work. If you need to reset a user’s password without access to the WordPress backend you can do so using PHP MyAdmin. WordPress passwords are encrypted with a MD5 hash which makes it impossible […]
There are many situations in which you may not have access to the WordPress backend, but may have access to the database. If you have access to the MySQL Database you can execute the following code as a query to add a new user to the database and regain access. […]