Category: Web Development
WordPress 3.1.2 released
WordPress 3.1.2 has been released. This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts. The issue was discovered by a member of our security team. We suggest you update to 3.1.2 promptly, especially if you allow users to register as contributors or if you have untrusted users. This release also fixes [...]
Still busy…
A week ago I mentioned how I’m rather quiet, mainly working on a massive update to my YouTube Embed plugin. Well, my original excuse of looking at moving house is still valid – mine goes on the market this week, so I’m busy painting, cleaning and anything else I can think of (oh, how my knees hurt!). [...]
Future WordPress Plugin Support
I’ve been offering free, and usually quite quick, support for my WordPress plugins since introducing them. At first people used the comments at the bottom of the plugin pages but it’s not the best method to use so at the beginning of the year I closed these and added a forum to the site. Unfortunately, lots of users [...]
WordPress 3.1.1 released
WordPress 3.1.1 has been released. This maintenance and security release fixes almost thirty issues in 3.1, including: Some security hardening to media uploads Performance improvements Fixes for IIS6 support Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues Version 3.1.1 also addresses three [...]
Moving External Scripts
One of the problems with having external scripts on your site is that you have little control over them – caching and the like are out of your hands. The solution I’m using, via , is a weekly job that copies external scripts to a folder on my own server. And it will only do [...]
It’s, oh, so quiet
I know there’s been a lack of content recently. However, this is due to a number of factors… I’m very busy on version 2 of my YouTube Embed plugin – a huge change and my most complex plugin yet – this is taking a big chunk of my time. I’m using the excellent new Google [...]
Plains laid for WordPress 3.2
WordPress have given some initial details of the plans for WordPress 3.2. Rather than adding lots of new features, this release is going to concentrate on speed improvements and restricting the WordPress minimum requirements (this will allow existing code to be removed and will make adding code in future easier). The requirements changing are… PHP 5.2.4 required – [...]
Wazala launches a mobile optimised e-commerce store
Wazala , a startup in the e-commerce business, has launched a new feature – Wazala Touch. This automatically enables a mobile phone optimised shopping experience on iPhone andAndroid handsets (without the need of any downloads to get it to work!). This features costs no more and is now integrated into their standard e-commerce package. Wazala is [...]
3 WordPress Plugins Updated
Today I’ve released minor updates for 3 WordPress plugins – Flu Pandemic Level , Simple Twitter Data and Simple URL Shortener . This is to fix a bug in the file fetching routine which may cause it to fail for some users.
YouTube Embed WordPress Plugin Updated
I’m proud to announce that version 1.5 of my WordPress plugin YouTube Embed has been released. Like 1.4, it’s a choc-full update… The post editor now has YouTube button, which inserts the YouTube shortcode (this can be switched off in the options screen) I’ve added a new option to disable keyboard controls I’ve also added [...]
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