Arnaud BrucklerSEO has changed profoundly over the past few years. If you still think optimizing your title tags, publishing content, and buying a few backlinks is enough to dominate Google on competitive queries, you're in for a disappointment. One element has steadily become indispensable:…
Geoffrey SteinThere are tools that suggest the end of your line of code, and there is Claude Code. The difference is worth stating upfront, because it shapes everything that follows: how you install it, how you talk to it, how you supervise it. This guide is for developers and teams who want…
Geoffrey SteinTo find the administrator's username, you can dig through the wp_users table in the site's database. However, changing a password without admin access is a bit more complicated: indeed, it's not straightforward to manually hash a password based on the security keys defined in…
Geoffrey Steincat command is really handy for displaying the contents of a file, but it's not exactly sexy to use. Let's see together how to supercharge its capabilities and turn it into a real productivity ally!"} /--> The Bat library will let you push the limits of the cat command by adding…
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…