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Chances are, you’ve run into this WordPress error at one time or another: That’s a pretty unhelpful error message, isn’t it? Not only does it tell you nothing about what the exact problem is or how it occurred, but it’s also sometimes just plain wrong. Pretty often, it has nothing to do with insufficient permissions. […]

For all your theme testing and plugin development needs, here’s a huge list of WordPress sample content collections and dummy content generators. Export Files See How to import WordPress export files for instructions on how to import the files listed in this section on your site. Theme Unit Test Data from WordPress.org 22 Posts Sticky post […]

As of WordPress 3.1.3, it’s really easy to prevent unscrupulous web developers from displaying your site in a frame. Just add this one-liner to your functions.php file: Now any other site that tries to load your WP blog in a frame will get this instead: (The actual error message will vary depending on the browser. […]

Plugins are usually loaded and executed along with the rest of WordPress. However, since each plugin is physically just set of .php, .css and .js files, it is also possible for someone to bypass the normal load order and execute the plugin files directly.  They just need to type the right URL in the address […]

Now that spring has arrived (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), it is an excellent time to clean up and decruft your WordPress site. In this post I will show you a number of plugins and techniques that you can use to do just that. Note: Back up your database before running any of the […]