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Search Text With a MySQL FULLTEXT Index
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Create a WordPress Settings Page With the Settings API
Build an admin settings screen the way WordPress intends: add_options_page for the menu, register_setting with a sanitize callback, and a form that options.php saves…
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Export MySQL Query Results to a CSV File
SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE turns any query into a spreadsheet file, written by the server itself. Handle the quoting that keeps embedded commas safe,…
Programming
Submit a Form With jQuery AJAX POST
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Server Administration
Rotate Logs With logrotate
A log file that grows forever will eventually fill the disk. Write a logrotate config that renames, compresses and expires old copies, test it…
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Modify the Main Query With pre_get_posts
WordPress builds a query for every page before it runs, and pre_get_posts hands you that query while it is still being built. Change how…
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Combine Query Results With UNION in MySQL
A join widens a row by adding columns; UNION instead stacks one result on top of another. Build a single contact list from a…
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Log and Display PHP Errors
PHP decides two things separately: whether to print a problem to the browser, and whether to write it to a file. Set display_errors and…
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Set File and Directory Permissions With chmod
Set file and directory permissions with chmod, numerically and symbolically, and you control exactly who can read, write, or execute anything on a Linux…
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Schedule Recurring Tasks With WP-Cron
Schedule recurring tasks with WP-Cron, WordPress's built-in scheduler. This tutorial hooks a task to a custom action, adds a five-minute interval through cron_schedules, schedules…
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