Each time I see someone use strlen() I cringe. It will break. Despite its name, strlen() doesn’t count characters. It counts bytes. In UTF-8 a character may be up to four bytes long. So what happens if we use strlen() and its companion substr() to shorten the title of post?[...]

Every good Theme comes with a 404.php for requests that don’t match any post or page. But what to do with missing images? They are requested per an <img> element usually, your visitors may never see the HTML template. Let’s use a 404 image. I put the following code on[...]