Is My Site Down? — Free Real-Time Website Uptime Checker
A free, no-signup uptime checker that pings any URL from multiple regions in seconds and tells you whether the site…
A growing library of PHP code snippets focused on WordPress customization and development. Topics range from managing downloads and inserting AdSense ads within post loops to removing unwanted heading classes, customizing Genesis theme read-more links, stripping spam links from comments, displaying estimated reading time, and auto-updating dates in posts with a free plugin.
A free, no-signup uptime checker that pings any URL from multiple regions in seconds and tells you whether the site…
A free, no-signup domain lookup tool that shows WHOIS registration, DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT), and availability status…
Inject AdSense, Ezoic, or Mediavine ads after the Nth post in any WordPress archive or query loop. A the_posts filter…
Change the Genesis "Read More" link text and styling with a single excerpt_more filter in functions.php. Works on Genesis 3.x…
Tired of manually updating years in your WordPress posts? This free plugin automatically inserts the current month and year anywhere…
Comment spam floods any WordPress site with an open comment form — bot-posted promotional URLs, blackhat SEO link drops, and…
Calculate and display reading time in WordPress with a 15-line PHP helper. Counts words, strips shortcodes, rounds up to avoid…
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