Prepared statements are a useful tool to protect against SQL injection attacks in software development - such as WordPress plugins and themes. By using placeholders in the query string and…

The Samsung range of SSD drives boast about their hardware level encryption - but what surprises me is that there is so little detail about this feature. In fact, the…

In an SQL statement, the IN operator allows you to multiple values in a WHERE clause, for example: SELECT * FROM 'table' WHERE 'field_id' = 1 AND 'field' IN (…

In WordPress, the WPDB class is available for interacting with the database, for example reading or writing data. The PREPARE method is almost always used along with the WPDB. PREPARE…

The following PHP code shows how to apply default settings to new forms in Gravity Forms. To use this code you will need to have an understanding of implementing PHP…

When a WordPress installation sits behind a proxy server the proxy settings are added to wp-config.php to tell WordPress how to access the internet. Without this WordPress will be unable…

Advertising website addresses without the 'www.' is a growing trend. It's smaller, concise and gives the domain name the first bit of attention. However not all websites are prepared to…

Firefox has the ability to customise installations using a configuration file called mozilla.cfg. This file sits in the Firefox install directory, and each time Firefox is loaded it's checked for…

The following configuration/customisation is intended to be used with an install deployment of Firefox. For details of how to prepare a Firefox installation for deployment see Install and Configure Firefox…