You’re probably reading this email because you contacted me with a support question regarding one of my open source projects. I’m glad to hear you are finding my project useful and I hope I can help you with your issue. However I don’t provide free support for these non-commercial projects via email. It is likely […]
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WordPress PHPMailer Vulnerability
There is a vulnerability in the PHPMailer library that affects any version before the critical release of 5.2.18. This PHPMailer vulnerability has been publicly disclosed at legalhackers.com. The PHPMailer library version 5.2.14, a vulnerable version, is included in WordPress 4.7 (the latest version at the time of this writing). In other words, WordPress 4.7 and […]
Improve Git Log
By default the output of ‘git log’ is not nearly as useful as it could be. By creating a new command ‘git lg’ that uses some of the options available to ‘git log’, we create a much more useful command.
Remove Paint Scrape from Car
Unfortunately, recently our garage was a little too narrow when pulling the car into it. The side panel scraped the wall and some of the paint scraped off the wall and transferred onto the car. Before Equipment WD-40 Paper Towels Magic Eraser Rag Soapy Water Car Wax & Towel Instructions Step 1: Remove the Paint […]
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Genesis_Admin_CPT_Archive_Settings
You’ve probably arrived on this page because you updated to WordPress 4.6 and now all of the backend pages (those in /wp-admin) are showing an error similar to the following. Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Genesis_Admin_CPT_Archive_Settings::__construct() must be an instance of stdClass, instance of WP_Post_Type given, called in /srv/www/genesis/htdocs/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/admin/menu.php on line 122 and […]
WP Engine Syntax Error Composer autoload_static.php
While working with a client recently, I found that deploying to WP Engine with Git had stopped working. The Symptom The following appeared on the command line when I ran git push production remote: – warning: syntax Error Found in wp-content/vendor/composer/autoload_static.php … remote: – failed: we detected a PHP syntax failure. The Problem The file […]
Digits in a Box Solution
Over the holidays, my six-year-old received the puzzle Digits in a Box. It is a lot of fun to try and puzzle out but sometimes I just want to put it away in the box. I’ve created this page with one answer for when I want to clean up. Digits in a Box Answer Step […]