Tag: PHP
Copying to clipboard in WordPress
I was recently asked, as a commercial request, to create a WordPress plugin that would allow users to click a button and copy text the clipboard. It seemed an easy enough thing to do – 2 weeks later, though, and I’ve thrown in the towel. Using JavaScript to capture contents is the easy bit – [...]
WordPress Tips
WordPress is powered by PHP and MySQL which is an open resource blog gizmo and a publishing platform as well. WordPress have many features like plug-in architecture and a template system. Actually, WordPress has been widely by thousands of biggest websites in the World Wide Web. For sure as computer enthusiasts, you have already come [...]
Hosting Sites Reviews
Hosting Sites Reviews is a new site – it appears to have only been around for a matter of weeks – dedicated to, yes you guessed it, reviewing UK web hosting companies. There is plenty of competition already in the market and because it is so new, there aren’t any reviews available – this is a new site [...]
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 – [...]
WordPress Plugin Bug Tracking
For a while I’ve been wanting to improve the bug (and enhancements) tracking for my WordPress plugins. Right now I rely noting down my ideas and any suggestions that people have made and looking at that whenever I’m working on a plugin. Now, though, I’ve installed MantisBT – a free PHP based bug tracking system. I’ve installed it on [...]
Spam Magnet Blog Posts
The website planetOzh has an excellent post about blog posts that attract spam. In it, he provides not only a piece of SQL that you can run to see how your site is affected, but even provided a PHP script that you can upload to your website to graph the results. Mine is to the right. I have my spam [...]
Adding a Heat Map to WordPress
Wanting to learn a bit more about the visitors to this site, I thought installing a on the site would be a good start. I initially used PicNet Mouse Eye Tracking – this is free, but an advert for the service appears at the foot of your site. However, I soon came across the OpenSource [...]
Plugin error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”
Today I’ve had reported to me that one of my plugins ( Simple Twitter Link – but I’m sure this equally occur in others) is generating the error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”. In fact, it generates it about 200 times. The problem? Well, it’s a bug in version 4 of PHP , so there’s not much I can do about it (sorry!). It’s fixed [...]
WordPress Plugins and File Fetching
A number of my recent plugins have provided a facility to read files from other sites. However, as I posted about , errors were being reported by some users and so I attempted a change in one such plugin to address this. Unfortunately, that didn’t quite work as I intended. Kind of. In this case, I swapped to using [...]
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Things that I learnt holding my first competition
I’ve never run a competition before and, thanks to Creative, my first opportunity has just concluded. And what did I learn? Well, a lot. First of all, the questions I should be asking the prize providers. Instead I kept badgering them as I kept asking some pretty basic questions… When do you want the competition [...]
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