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How to fix UTF-8 filename issues when using wp_handle_upload()

PHP said the file didn’t exist. Except it did. file_exists() wasn’t working for a file uploaded using wp_handle_upload(). It worked for every other file, except for one provided by a German customer. I confirmed the following: The file did exist in the correct wp-uploads sub-directory The file had correct permissions The directory and its parents […]

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How to Tell if Your WordPress Widget is Active

Ever wonder if your widget is activated on an external site? Here’s how to find out. When you register a sidebar widget, you use code like this: register_sidebar_widget(array(‘Name of Widget’, ‘class-of-widget’), ‘widget_function’); If you want to check whether the widget is activated (you may want to for a variety of reasons), you can do it […]

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Setting Far Futures Expires in ASP, Using ASP as CSS

I normally don’t work with ASP; I use PHP for my coding. Recently, I had to create a style.css.asp file, and I needed to find how to set a far-futures header in ASP.  Here’s what I found in 5 minutes 🙂 :

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Use .htaccess to make all your HTML files PHP

Note: the following will not work on all server configurations, which may be why you’re using SSI in the first place. Call your server administrator/tech support and see if the following techniques are supported. Escape static HTML If you want the power and flexibility of PHP but don’t want to (or can’t) shift away from […]