Bulletproof queries in WordPress – preventing SQL injections

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When developing WordPress plugins, securing potential SQL injections is extremely important. With a well written SQL injection the attacker might gain access to your database, your blog back-end and steal your data, or make modifications you won’t even notice. What is an SQL injection? SQL injection is a technique where malicious users can inject SQL commands into an SQL statement, …

Virtual Hosts – Beginners guide to Digital Ocean

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By now we have a working private server with very basic features and a demo user. By default your website is data is accessed from the following directory: /var/www/ So if you open up your server address in your browser the files in this directory are parsed. This is not bad, however if you are planning to use 2 or …

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Ajax Search Lite: A free ajax search for WordPress

Ernest Marcinko Free Plugins 13 Comments

Need an enhanced search engine for your WordPress blog? Ajax search lite is a powerful ajax search engine for WordPress, just what you need. Friendly, Fast, Free. A resonsive search engine, which will boost your user experience by providing a user friendly ajax powered search form. COMPLETELY FREE! Demo: [wpdreams_ajaxsearchlite] Features List: Search in posts and pages 2 nice themes …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.13 – Developer notes

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This release brings tons of new features, as well as a few optimizations and bugfixes. Check out the plugin demo, it might be something you are looking for. New Features Indexing and searching Attachment file contents The long-awaited feature is finally here. Indexing PDF, any kind of text, RTF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files is now possible. This is a …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress – version 3.5 features and changes

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In case you don’t know what Ajax Search Pro for WordPress plugin is about, then check it out on codecanyon or the demo page. You will love it. This version had take much longer to release than I expected, but it’s worth it πŸ˜‰ New features Creating various fields (radio buttons, range sliders, dropdowns) connected with custom fields (post meta) …

Related posts lite – free plugin

Ernest Marcinko Free Plugins, Wordpress 4 Comments

After releasing the pro version, I have decided to make a free version of the plugin as well. Of course it has a lot less options, but enough for a simple regular usage. The plugin features 6 different layouts as well. Related posts lite is a simple related posts plugin, yet with a very powerful related posts engine. In fact …

Maximum performance with WordPress

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There is nothing better, than seeing the speed of the fresh “virgin” WordPress installation. After installing few plugins, making posts or loading up the webshop, this speed exponentially decreases. In the end, you get a nice looking website with crappy loading speed. Ruining the user experience with slow speed is easier than you think. More speed = Less abandonment There …