Dealing with suspended blogs on multisite
Use a blog-deleted.php file which redirects to another site/page whenever a deleted or suspended blog is visited in WordPress multisite.
Development
Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Profile widget released
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 […]
Custom tag page headers
Support for tags has been added to the Unique Headers plugin for WordPress. Existing users should see an update shortly.
Are Your Plugins Secure? Part 2: Permissions and Nonces
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 […]
Adding images to the theme customiser
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.
Know when you are on localhost!
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.
Are your plugins secure?
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 […]
Blogging at WP Realm
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.
TalkPress: Is bbPress Finally Coming to WordPress.com?
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 […]
PixoPoint gone
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.
Avoid Plugin Options Hell
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 […]
blitz.io
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.