News of the XSS bug in Subscribe2 didn’t show up in any of my RSS feeds or mailing lists, even though it’s a fairly popular plugin, so I wanted to make a note of it in case anyone else missed it. Version 8.2 has a fix for it .
I just threw a couple small PHP classes up on GitHub that I use in almost every WordPress plugin I write. The first is IDAdminNotices , which is a clean and easy way for plugins and themes to send messages/errors to the user within the Administration Panels. The second is IDDescribeVar , which will outputs the type, length and contents… [more]
Ok, so maybe that title was a bit of a hyperbole, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves on the Web right now. Joshua Schachter has a comprehensive analysis of the concept of Short URLs and the myriad problems associated with it, but the biggest one for me is the fact that the true URL is… [more]
Many actions in WordPress will fire multiple times, which can lead to performance drags and undesired/intuitiveness results. Pippin Williamson points out that you can check how many times an action has already run , and modify your code to respond accordingly.
When setting up the PPTP and PPP packages on an OpenVZ VPS in order to connect to a VPN, there are a few extra steps you need to take that you don’t have to do with a non-virtualized box. First, you have to load the following kernel modules on the hardware node and/or set them to automatically start during the boot up process : After doing that you should… [more]
Jeff Atwood wrote a fascinating article on different methods to use to discourage trolling on social websites , including some discussion of their ethical merits. I wasn’t aware of slowbanning and hellbanning before, but I think they’re very clever ideas.
