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HyperDB is a plugin for spreading your websites load across several servers and databases. Its currently used in production on WordPress.com.
Just started experimenting with it :)
HyperDB
Since version 5.6+ PHP is verifying peer certificates and host names by default when using SSL/TLS. This is causing problems on some servers / websites, where the config has not been setup correctly. If you can not fix the setup yourself, make sure to talk to your server host to fix that issue.
For PHPMailer (Github) there is a workaround:
This should only be a workaround until your configuration has been fixed. You are suppressing certificate verification and compromising your security!
As WordPress is using PHPMailer as its main email library, this can be tweaked by using the phpmailer_init hook:
Add this to your themes functions.php.
And here is how phpmailer->smtpOptions should be used, on a properly configured server:
SSL changes in PHP 5.6: http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.openssl.php SSL context options in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php
Enjoy coding…
Chrome 45+ is glitching on WordPress admin menus.
Github Plugin version
WooCommerce provides great functionality, but loads a lot of resources even if not needed.
If a site loads longer than 5-7 seconds, potential customers already loose interest :)
Add this to your functions.php:
Like always, make sure that nothing breaks. If things break or are required by certain pages add an exception for that!
Check WordPress Condional Tags.
Sources:
Simple add this to your wp-config.php
Use the MU-Domain-Mapping plugin for that.
We often have some posts that we would like to promote and keep at the first page of the blog. When you are using pagination, the sticky posts will be added to the standard posts, making the post count per page uneven.
If you want to keep your posts per page count consistent, there is a way to do that.
Sometimes you want to add your own avatar for a user or build your own special predefined avatar selection :)
BuddyPress stores avatars in /wp-content/uploads/avatars/ – USERID – /
BuddyPress hashes the original filename and stores full and thumbnail images in the above directory.
Now go ahead and build your own integration around that ;)
When using Fullpage.js, overflowing section / slide content will be made scrollable with Slimscroll. If you want to use addons that rely on the natural scroll event, these will fail with Slimscroll. One of the candidates breaking is Scrollreveal.js for example.
I decided to work around that, to allow animations to be triggered when elements become visible or invisible to the viewport.
You could code the viewport visibility check yourself or use the “visible” jquery plugin.
“This is a jQuery plugin which allows us to quickly check if an element is within the browsers visual viewport, regardless of the scroll position. If a user can see this element, the function will return true.” jquery-visible on Github
The idea was to extend or hook into slimscroll without touching the fullpage.js codebase. Fullpage.js wraps overflowing content within a fp-scrollable container. Slimscroll itself provides events to track your position within the scrollable area in pixels or when top / bottom have been reached.
This is just a crude and simple starting point, but should give you the basic idea. This still needs some throttling, so that its not called on every scroll position.
Very basic idea to get some transitions working.
Hopefully Fullpage.js will be switching to iScroll natively in the future, as it provides far more options to handle scrollable areas. You can use iScroll now, but you have to disable the scrolling feature within Fullpage.js and call iScroll yourself. Not that difficult to do :)
There is also a WordPress Plugin that wraps Fullpage.js natively with a nice interface (WP_Fullpage) and my upcoming Visual Composer integration, which already uses iScroll :)
I am working on an Addon for WPLMS to automate some of the manual tasks. Will extend the list, as things progress.
