Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Following on from “Are your plugins secure?, this post is a simple breakdown on what to look for security-wise when auditing plugins. In the previous post I covered basic data santisation, however that sort of protection means […]
I had some difficulties ironing out bugs in an implementation of the WordPress theme customiser when using image uploaders. Here is a very simple piece of code which will hopefully help guide you in the right direction.
Those of you who regularly switch their hosts file to change from production to local environments should check out my new mu plugin. It will hopefully make things a little easier for you during development.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. WordPress has an irritatingly bad reputation for security. This is mostly due to misinformation and partly due to WordPress taking the rap for flawed security either at server level, or at the theme/plugin level. Server security issues […]
I’m blogging about WordPress over at WP Realm. I’ll still be posting code tidbits, plugins and all sorts of other things right here, but my broad scoped or generic WordPress posts will be posted over there.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Those of you who have been in the community for a long time will remember the TalkPress project. It was intended as a hosted platform for running bbPress forums, essentially a bbPress version of WordPress.com. It was […]
Regular site visitors may have noticed a rather major change in this site today, the URL changed! The site has moved from geek.hellyer.kiwi today to it’s new home at geek.hellyer.kiwi. Probably no one else will care, but this is a major move for me as I’d worked very hard on building a brand name and so I thought I’d write a post about it.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Over the past year I have changed from approaching plugin development with the intention of pleasing as many users as possible, to attempting to solve single problems as flawlessly as possible.This has made the plugins I release […]
I went on the hunt for a tool to let me DDOS my own site and provide me with some nice little graphs to show me how slow (or fast) it is under heavy load. The tool I used was blitz.io.
Spam Destroyer plugin now features experimental support for bbPress user registrations, bbPress guest posting.
I was having a dreadful time converting from the UTC time stamp stored in the WordPress database to the local time set in the admin panel. I ended up writing the following handy little function to convert the times easily.
The Simple Colorbox plugin now features slideshow functionality. It will no longer display those annoying horizontal scrollbars when the browser is skinnier than it is tall.