Bryan Hoffman

When developing a WordPress theme I like to organize code into manageable, reusable pieces when ever possible. One great way of doing this is …

Here’s how to add an .svg file to your a template in your WordPress theme – without having to paste the entire file contents: …

I recently posted an article on detailing general guidelines for backing up a WordPress website. In that article I briefly touched on backing up …

Someday, you will lose some important file that hasn’t been backed up… Wait – of course you won’t – You already know the importance …

As a kid growing up in Central Minnesota I’d never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The wreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot was a …

I recently ran into an issue trying to connect to a new FTP account for a client who’s hosted on GoDaddy. After setting up …

Google announced yesterday on their Online Security Blog that they’ll be retiring the yellow caution triangle badge that appeared when Chrome detected a “HTTPS …

I’d previously written a post about forcing the WordPress Media button to insert protocol relative links when running a website as HTTPS-everywhere. Upon further …

I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters (​) from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a …

I was recently got a console warning in Chrome on a client’s website stating that: [text] SVG’s SMIL animations (‘animate’, ‘set’, etc.) are deprecated …

If you use WP Super Cache to speed up your site, update to the latest version as soon as possible to patch critical security …

A Brute Force attack is defined as a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data such as passwords through exhaustive effort (using …

Update: Protocol Relative links are considered an anti-pattern according to Paul Irish. Basically, if an asset is available over https:// then it should be …

I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …

I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …

I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …

We recently had a strange database error on a site that uses Events Calendar Pro. The error logs were chock full of the following …

In the course of my WordPress education, no single developer or group has influenced the the way I do things more than Justin Tadlock. …

Safari’s default behavior is to unzip downloaded zip files, and also delete them. While this is nice some of the time, it isn’t ideal …

Google recently released it’s first major update to its 17 year old logo. Oh, it’s the still a crayon-colored text treatment, but the BIG …