Update June 2023: zoom.us discontinued the use of JWT for authorization, and it is completely disabled now. So this method below is not working. Please check the Zoom API reference for valid approaches to registrations. In recent times the ZOOM app became very popular for creating and attending online meetings and webinars. As a…
Sometimes as a web developer, you want a simple and quick way to make a backup from a site without spending hours on installing and configuring site backup solutions like Akeeba Backup for Joomla! or Updraft Plus for WordPress. You just want to have some little script that you upload to your server, run it…
On a recent project I was working on, I was assigned a task to detect the WordPress version on a bunch of supplied URLs. I did some research, had a better look at the source code that WP produces, and did some testing. I found out that there are three simplest and most reliable ways…
Sometimes, when you’re working on a WordPress project with a tight deadline, you have to come up with quick and easy ways to do certain things. For example, to batch send emails to multiple users, either from a DB or from a CSV file, etc. Instead of going the “right” path by finding some plugin…
Sometimes, you would want to lock the site completely, and allow it only to registered users. Also, you may want to redirect the front-end login requests to a custom WP Page with a custom login form, other than going to the default /wp-login.php page, like below: That can be easily achieved by writing a simple function…
Recently I encountered an error with one of my client’s sites’ WP Mail SMTP plugin setup. We’ve correctly set up the SMTP credentials in the plugin but the mail was never sent. After investigating the server error logs we have found some errors pointing to “wrong instance” of PHPMailer class in one of the other…