In this article I look at some essential WordPress hooks. By 'essential hooks' I mean actions and filters you use frequently when writing a WordPress plugin. Sometimes in the context of this article 'essential hook' refers to a hook you cannot do without to ...

Recursion in computer science is a technique based on two cases. One is non-recursive terminating case, the other, recursive. The former finds you the final solution, the latter reduces problem to the termination case. This is I guess the most important bit, one should ...

Environmental variables on a Linux based system like Debian are named strings available to all applications initialized from text console or some graphical interface. These variables are gradually added by various processes as your system starts. Once login shell is invoked ...

In this second part on the updating WordPress database URLs I'll concentrate on a database-wide approach. All tables will be scanned and old URLs updated to new ones. Also serialized data will be properly dealt with. In this part, mysql utility will not be involved ( but ...