Spam cookies
Some users of the Spam Destroyer plugin have reported sporadic cases of legitimate users comments landing in the spam queue.
Development
Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Prism
Prism reminded me of a conversation from 2010. I’ve published a section of it below where the presence of a Prism like program is predicted.
Metro Share plugin
Metro Share is a social sharing plugin for WordPress. I assisted with prepping the plugin for public release and adding the final touches.
Metro Share Styles
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 […]
WP Roll got launched today
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 […]
Dequeue Simple Colorbox
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.
Simple CMS theme update
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.
Admin panel. What does the future hold?
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 […]
Server Move Notification plugin released
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 update
Spam Destroyer plugin ought to report when a comment is marked as spam. Future updates will hopefully include a simple CAPTCHA system.
Why you should stop your plugin from updating
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 […]
WP Twitter Feed fix created
A plugin to fix the WP Twitter Feed widget’s certificate errors when viewed with https.