Brandon Himpfen

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Minimum Required PHP Version for Plugins

WordPress has introduced a way for developers to set a minimum required PHP version for their plugins. If you are a WordPress plugin developer and want to set a minimum required PHP version for your WordPress plugin, simply add Requires PHP: to your WordPress plugin's readme.txt file....

20 Social Media Conferences in 2017

Are you looking to learn about social media or network in 2017? Try these social media conferences! * Social Media Marketing World (March 22-24, San Diego) Join 5,000 fellow marketers at the mega-conference designed to inspire and empower you with social media marketing ideas—brought to you by Social Media...

How-to Install HHVM on Ubuntu 14.04

HHVM is an open source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. The advantage of HHVM is an increase in web request throughput and reduction in memory consumption compared to traditional PHP hosting. It was developed and open sourced by Facebook.

Material Design Bootstrap Buttons using Sass

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how-to create Bootstrap buttons based on Material Design’s colour palette using Sass stylesheet language. Example of what we will create: HTML To add a Material Design Bootstrap button to your website, web app or blog use the following HTML code:...

Facebook is Dropping Blackberry Support

Facebook is officially unfriending Blackberry, following a decision by WhatsApp to drop support for Blackberry. In a statement by WhatsApp, they said “While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features...

Prevent Hotlinking using .htaccess

Hotlinking is where another website, let’s say XYZ.com, uses the asset(s) of another website, let’s say ABC.com, by using the direct link to that asset. This is known as hotlinking. The problem with this is that XYZ.com is stealing the bandwidth of ABC.com...

How-To Install and Use WPScan

WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner. It’s a great tool that you can use to scan your WordPress installations or WordPress installations of your clients. WPScan requires Linux, Ruby version 1.9 or higher, RubyGems and Git.

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