Locked out of your WordPress website? No worries. This article explains how a server administrator can either force reset a user’s WordPress password or create a new WordPress admin user with a brand new password. Database and FTP methods are described.
Programming
WordPress Password Hash Generator
This WordPress Password Hash Generator uses the official WordPress hashing function wp_hash_password() behind the scenes. With this tool, you can convert a password to its hash code (or hash sum or checksum), which can then be used to set a new password directly in the WordPress MySQL database.
Timer job to delete SharePoint orphaned users
This article discusses how to create a timer job for deleting orphaned users (SharePoint users that are deleted or disabled in AD) using Visual Studio. I have tested this solution on both SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2010. So, it would of course also work for SharePoint 2013.
PowerShell script to delete SharePoint orphaned users
Orphaned users in SharePoint are users that have been disabled or completely deleted from active directory but are still referenced in list items and sites, and especially in the SharePoint people picker control. This article explains how to remove them using PowerShell.
Converting asynchronous SharePoint event receivers to synchronous
If you encounter the edit properties box on single document uploads and still want to run custom code in the ItemAdded event receiver, you will need to employ the method discussed in this article of converting asynchronous SharePoint event receivers to synchronous. The motivation behind this post was to avoid save conflict errors. But there are potentially other scenarios where it might be useful to make asynchronous SharePoint event receivers synchronous.
Adding fields to SharePoint lists with the AddFieldAsXml method
If you perform any automated website or list/library creation in SharePoint, you would at one point or another need to define and add fields (SPField) via code using the AddFieldAsXml method of the SPFieldCollection class. This article focuses on a few “gotchas” you may encounter while working with this method.
