Verify sending domain inside Mandrill without email hosting
Mandrill has enforced upon us that the only way to verify a sending-domain (domain used to send emails from) is by getting an email sent by them on an email of the sending-domain in use. So, if you use **example.org** or **something.example.org** to send emails, you can now only verify your sending-domain, by receiving an […]
Store Just WordPress Transients Persistently
WordPress comes with an option of keeping cache in a persistent storage, if provided. It provides a great deal of performance since everything that WordPress was doing repeatedly on each page request now can be saved in the persistent cache storage (APC / Memcached / Redis) and retrieve easily & very fastly without doing much […]
Override WP-CLI commands
If you already don’t know about WP-CLI, its a pretty great tool to manage a WordPress install via terminal commands. This essentially gives you a lot of power enabling you to interact with the WordPress install just by commands and not having to interact with UI at all. Read more at [WP-CLI’s homepage](http://wp-cli.org/). It can […]
Filtering transient expiration time in WordPress
As of now WordPress, doesn’t offer a filter to control the expiration of the transient while its being set, so I quickly wanted to share a quick snippet I found on Trac, written by Andrew Nacin. Here is the snippet: Basically, `’set_transient_’ . $transient` hook is fired once the transient gets saved, so it saves […]
Quickest way to get timestamp of a time in a particular timezone in PHP
Playing with timezone conversions can be crazy, it still confuses me every time and I have to wait a minute to run some test code to figure out what’s it that I am trying to do here. Anyway, the quickest way I have to get timestamp of a time in particular time zone is This […]
How to use a single image on Facebook when your website is shared
Ideally, you would want to use context specific images to be shown on Facebook whenever any page of your WordPress website is shared on Facebook, but if for some reason you want only a single image to be shown irrespective of the context, that can be configured using my plugin – [Facebook Like Thumbnail](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/) though […]
WordPress plugin to email commentators of posts
The need to email came up when I wanted to notify commentators of my previous announcement posts regarding my plugin – [Facebook Like Thumbnail](http://blog.ashfame.com/2014/04/updated-facebook-thumbnail-wordpress-plugin-released/), about its new version which is a rewrite and has lot of goodness in it. I looked it up, and I found a plugin by Yoast, which just adds all the […]