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TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

Summary

TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications and servers in scenarios where that data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking your email. - SSL versus TLS – What’s the difference?

Key differences

• A program can initiate a secure connection with a server by Port ('explicit' - SSL), or by Protocol ('implicit' - TLS)
• A negotiation between the client and the server determines which protocol is used. This is based on which software is installed on each and how each is configured.

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Generating a Stack Trace

Source: StackOverflow - Print PHP Call Stack

Sample output when called from a WordPress Widget Subclass:

#0 /Volumes/DanBackup/Websites/wp-network/wp-includes/class-wp-widget-factory.php(106): WPDTRT_Widget->__construct()
#1 /Volumes/DanBackup/Websites/wp-network/wp-includes/widgets.php(113): WP_Widget_Factory->register('WPDTRT_Attachme...')
#2 /Volumes/DanBackup/Websites/wpdtrt-attachment-map/wpdtrt-attachment-map.php(202): register_widget('WPDTRT_Attachme...')

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In-app browsers

Source: The Facebook browser – the biggest browser that you ignore

“In-app browsers” are not actual browsers, but a webview window running off your device’s core browser.

the real motivation is to increase dwell time

Links that open in Facebook’s browser are able to keep sharing data, helping build up a thicker, more valuable advertising profile of that user.

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Composer - Loading nested dependencies

Problem

My wpdtrt-plugin repository used my wpdtrt-helpers plugin during development.

I documented the dependency by adding wpdtrt-helpers to the Composer file:

{

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PHP Unit Testing, revisited

See latest setup notes here: dotherightthing/generator-wpdtrt-plugin-boilerplate#28

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When I last tried to set up Unit Testing, I ran into a suite of errors, but that was in a multi-site setup. This time I am using wptest, a standalone site which I set up just for testing plugins.

I'm following Pippin's tutorial on Unit Tests for WordPress Plugins – Setting Up Our Testing Suite.

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Missing Permalink Edit button

Source: Edit Slug Button Missing in WordPress

If somewhere in the code for a WordPress site there is a filter hooked to post_link that’s replacing the URL so that it no longer contains the %postname% placeholder, WordPress will assume there’s nothing to edit. It will therefore output the permalink on the post edit screen without the edit button next to it, and the permalink’s slug won’t be editable.

My particular issue was caused by a conflict with my permalink placeholder replacement script. I'd naively edited Add Custom Taxonomy Tags to Your WordPress Permalinks to run across the whole theme and catch any and all placeholders.

As per James White's comment, my issue was easily solved by excluding %my_custom_post_type_name% (for custom post types) and %postname (for regular post types).

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Bash Profile / PATH

What is Bash?

Bash (the Bourne Again SHell) is an interactive shell, which responds to user typed commands with actions.

Understanding start-up files

When Bash starts up, it executes the commands in a variety of 'dot' files, including ~/.bash_profile.

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Using $ in $.noConflict() mode

How to use the dollar sign as an alias for the jQuery object

Because the jQuery object is used so often, having a short alias is very useful and the dollar sign is so conventional that when people are looking at jQuery code, they are often looking for this dollar sign as an indicator that the jQuery object is being used.

Now we could use a simple assignment to say $ = jQuery and just leave it at that, but the issue is that we don't know if the dollar sign is being used by some other JavaScript library ... So in order to make sure that the dollar sign doesn't get overridden somewhere along the lines, we need to make the dollar sign a local variable for each function that we write

Source: BuildAModule: How to use the dollar sign as an alias for the jQuery object

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Passing variables to template-parts

In passing variables to get_template_part() in wordpress, the author suggests bypassing WordPress's built-in mechanism, but a commenter provides the correction solution:

/**
* 1. Set the variables
*/
$options = array(
'option1' => 'value1',

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PageSpeed

JavaScript

1. load using official WordPress mechanism (wp_enqueue_script, $in_footer)
2. use Autoptimize plugin to move any header scripts into the footer, and to concatenate all footer scripts into a single minified file. Don't exclude js/jquery/jquery.js. Note that files that are named *.min.js aren't (re)minified by Autoptimize.
3. use vanilla JavaScript for essential page transformations, to bypass wait time for jQuery load and setup

CSS Stylesheets