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Check for security updates

There’s no mechanism for flagging an update from .org as being a security update or not. Updates are just updates, other than the version string there’s little to no additional meta information. Change logs might mention it, but this is assuming the changelog is accurate, or present at all. Some plugins might follow semantic versioning, … Read more

Apache errors when retrieving taxonomies

It’s a PHP error, not an Apache error. What’s happening is that get_the_terms() returns an array of terms, or false if there are no terms or the post doesn’t exist. You can fix this like this: $thiscategory = get_the_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomy_name ); if ( is_array( $thiscategory ) ) { // Only runs if $thiscategory is … Read more

adding custom user input fields in WordPress admin dashboard gives error The link you followed has expired. Please try again

That error messages means a failed admin nonce validation (check_admin_referer, which calls wp_nonce_ays). And you don’t actually need an extra nonce here: these are extra fields to be added to existing forms that already have their own nonces, and the one you’ve added just clashes with them. (If you were adding a new form you … Read more

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