Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
The Metro Share plugin is an excellent social sharing icon plugin for WordPress, created by my colleague Kaspars Dambis at Metronet. The default styles of the Metro Share plugin may not be to your taste, so you can however modify the styling of the plugin via hooks. The following code demonstrates how to unhook the […]
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. There has been a lot of activity in the WordPress news world over the past year. Our own WP Realm has been gaining momentum and the new WP Daily has burst onto the scene as the go […]
You can now unhook the built in CSS file in the Simple Colorbox plugin via a class variable which you can use to access and unhook the CSS file.
A very popular theme of mine has an overdue upgrade. Simple CMS theme was released in 2009 and was intended for use in building very simple static websites.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. I received an interesting email recently from Tung Do, a man who has been a well respected member of the WordPress community for quite some time. He offered me the opportunity to test his new plugin DP […]
Ever moved WordPress and had to deal with upset clients who lost their edits during the move? Then you may appreciate the Server Move Notification plugin.
Spam Destroyer plugin ought to report when a comment is marked as spam. Future updates will hopefully include a simple CAPTCHA system.
Per Soderlind recently alerted me to a rather important security issue regarding plugins hosted outside of WordPress.org. All WordPress.org hosted plugins receive plugin updates from WordPress.org. Commercial plugins often add scripts to provide plugin updates from other sources*, but the vast majority of plugins simply go without automatic updates at all. Now, imagine a scenario in which […]
A plugin to fix the WP Twitter Feed widget’s certificate errors when viewed with https.
Use a blog-deleted.php file which redirects to another site/page whenever a deleted or suspended blog is visited in WordPress multisite.
I have launched a new WordPress plugin called Profile Widget. It allows you to add an avatar and bio text for the current post author on each single posts page. Hopefully this will be useful to those of you wanting to display information about your post authors in your sidebar. You can check it out […]
Support for tags has been added to the Unique Headers plugin for WordPress. Existing users should see an update shortly.