Bulk Check “Enable SSL” Checkbox in WordPress

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I think this is really going to be my last post of the year! I promise!!! I recently discovered that, for some reason, there does not appear to be a built-in way to set the Enable SSL checkbox on multiple posts in WordPress. While there may not be an app for that – there is … Read more

End of Another Year! … and a Minor Update to the Code School Profile Scraper

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It’s hard to believe 2016 is already drawing to a close. It seems like just yesterday that I was writing about using PHP to search through my source code! Though I wouldn’t call this an intractable problem, I did notice something annoying when looking at my Code School profile on the sidebar of this site. … Read more

Using Ruby to Get All Links from a Sitemap XML File

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I was looking at the cached pages on the Wayback Machine and decided to find out if that site had an API. (It does.) I wanted to find a way to use this API to submit links to the Wayback Machine database. As it turns out, a Ruby gem called WaybackArchiver has already been written … Read more