Get True 50/50 Value For Split-Testing Users In PHP

So, one of the projects I’m working on is a sales funnel & at a particular point in the process, I’m trying to figure out whether a video or written text works best with regards to converting users. Obviously, I need to do a split test… But how can I get a get true 50/50 …

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How To Automatically Add Affiliate Links To WordPress or bbPress Posts

I’ve been working on a WordPress site with bbPress installed (well, BuddyBoss to be precise) & one of the requests was for all of the links posted in the bbPress forum to automatically turn to affiliate links. Is it possible? You betcha… In fact, I’ve actually done it before on another site in the past …

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How To Fix Broken (Unclosed) BBCode With PHP

Over the past week or so I’ve been trying to import and old phpBB forum into bbPress & due to the importer struggling with incomplete BBCode, I’ve had to come up with a little PHP script to sort it out. Initially I had just wiped out ALL bracketed text from the posts, and whilst this …

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How To Disable Nickname (or any name) Changes In WordPress & BuddyPress

I recently started using BuddyPress, well BuddyBoss actually to be precise & I noticed that oddly, there is no way to disable users from changing their names or nicknames (display names). I mean I get it… People like to have the freedom to change their nicknames on websites & many social media sites do indeed …

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How To Import phpBB Into bbPress & BuddyBoss (Successfully!)

What a fart on… That’s the only way importing phpBB into bbPress can be described. Thankfully, however, I finally managed to figure it out & in this post, I’m going to show you exactly how to do it. So if you’ve been struggling with the import due to errors about missing database columns/fields or finding …

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How To Easily Enable The exec() Function In PHP-FPM via SSH

I recently moved some websites to a new VPS server & a handful of them that were built on WordPress & had some image compression plugins enabled started throwing errors stating that exec() needed to be enabled for them to function correctly. I remember the same happening to me in the past, but couldn’t for …

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