The last couple days I’ve struggled with adding custom rewrite rules to WordPress so that a user can edit settings for their account on the front end. The code and methods are straight forward enough and can be found on the codex page. But I was running into an issue where when I went to [...]
There was recently a scare over a zero day vulnerability it timthumb timthumb pushed a fix out right away. I’ve seen people posting saying they didn’t know where to look for timthumb.php or if their themes used it so I threw together a quick plugin to find references to timthumb in your WordPress install. The [...]
In the last two versions of Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin there’s been errors in the JavaScript that cause parts of tinymce to not work. The issue is some of the variables are not strings like expected, so when they try to run string methods against them, causing JavaScript to throw a syntax error. The simple [...]
I was just creating a custom registration form on a WordPress site. When I started testing the form the page it was submitting to returned a 404, but would function normally when navigating there naturally. The issue arose from having the name of one of my form fields be “name.” It seems that WordPress uses [...]
I’m slow posting but I will be co-presenting with Jake Spurlock at the Wordpress Meetup on Wed. October 14th.
Recently my boss/professor had me find some widgets for his WPmu install. I spent several days looking at many different sites, and here is what I came up with to fill his needs. Del.icio.us cached++ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delicious-cached/del.icio.us cached++ uses the built-in MagpieRSS engine functions to create a list of the latest bookmarks on a del.icio.us account, [...]