When trying to add my the dkim DNS TXT record for my domain (to authenticate outgoing emails) in Amazon’s Route 53, I received the error message: “CharacterStringTooLong (Value is too long)”. This is how I fixed it.
When working with Git on the command line, I spend a lot of time switching back and forth between two branches. Even with Git tab completion, it is a lot of typing. However Git has a shortcut for the previous branch, a single dash (-).
When loading JavaScript on a webpage with the “script” tag, there are additional attributes you can add to tell the browser how and when to load the JavaScript (‘async’ and ‘defer’). In WordPress, there is not a native way to add these attributes but this code snippet does the trick.
I was working on one Git branch and I wanted a file from another branch. Using git checkout, we can do this.
How to get your Genesis Child Theme to load style.css with a cache busting ver URL parameter based on the version defined in the header of style.css.
When posting a tweet with multiple links, I found Twitter used the last link for the Twitter Card despite what the documentation says.
When working with WP CLI, I often have data to output and instead of looking up how to do it each time, I wanted to make myself some notes.
A quick table of the differences in 301, 302, 303, and 307 Redirects.
For fun, I was copying the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie on one of my sites so I could manually set it in another browser and log in without going through the authentication step. While it worked, I noticed I could read the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie from the Chrome developer tools but I could not read the cookie with JavaScript. It turns out this is because it is a HttpOnly cookie, which I got to learn about.
I’ve written about using “git push –force-with-lease” instead of git push –force” because “force-with-lease” will only force push changes if your local copy is aware of all of the commits on the remote branch but how is git “aware” of the commits.
