Geoffrey Stein[toc] I. What are hackers' goals when they hack your WordPress site? Let's agree on one thing: unless you move in activist circles or shady activities, there's little chance the hacker in question has a personal grudge against you. Most attacks against WordPress sites are…
Geoffrey SteinHelp, I need to use two versions of nodeJS at the same time! We all know this problem: on different projects we need a specific version of nodejs and npm that's never the same one. And often we find out in a none too explicit way when our WebPack script sneakily crashes with an…
Geoffrey SteinFor a long time I was a fan of, successively, Grunt then Gulp, to compile my asset files in WordPress. While training on the Symfony framework a few years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how easily this issue was handled, and I set my mind on bringing this tool to WordPress.…
Geoffrey SteinCopying to the clipboard in JavaScript The least we can say is that copying text in JavaScript has gotten people talking, you can see for yourself on this StackOverflow thread… Most of the conclusions there are a bit dated, but they do a good job of showing just how tricky this…
Geoffrey SteinMatomo (formerly Piwik) is a self-hosted website analytics solution positioned as an alternative to Google Analytics. If the idea of managing this solution yourself doesn't put you off, it comes with plenty of advantages and, what's more, stays fairly simple to install. Let's…
Geoffrey SteinPrerequisites In this article we'll need an existing WordPress install in order to add the features specific to multisite. This procedure will somewhat transform your install by adding, among other things, many tables to your database. It's not necessarily easy to undo this…
Geoffrey Stein0. A quick reminder before we start A ???? sentence ???? starts ???? with ???? a ???? capital ???? letter ???? and ???? ends ???? with ???? a ???? period. Okay, I'm ready. 1. The ellipsis An ellipsis is three dots in a row. Simple, right? Yet you frequently see people end their…