Regolith

I just finished the first version of a new WordPress installation template called Regolith. I’ve been using my personalized fork of Mark Jaquith’s WordPress Skeleton for the past several years, but recently came across Bedrock and really liked it. I started playing around with it, but quickly discovered that the tools and practices it embraced were a bit overkill for […]

Preventing a Plugin from Automatically Updating

In an ideal world you’d never have to fork a plugin, because developers would always make their plugins extensible with hooks, just like WordPress itself does. But unfortunately that’s not usually the case, and it’s sometimes necessary to directly modify a plugin to make it do what you need. In those cases, you want to […]

Getting Pricing Right

Code Poet just released a free eBook called Getting Pricing Right that interviews Mark Jaquith, Remkus de Vries and Shane Pearlman on setting consulting rates and miscellaneous related topics. It’s short and contains a lot of good advice, as well as links to a lot of resources.

Using Constants for a Text Domain in WordPress

Normally any kind of global values that don’t change within a program’s execution should be defined as constants, but text domains within internationalized WordPress plugins are an exception to that rule. Mark Jaquith explains why it’s important to use a string instead.

Another Obtuse Attempt to Control the Internet

Check out Mark Jaquith’s post on the PROTECT IP Act for a basic rundown on why it’s bad and what you can do to help stop it.

WordPress Plugin and Theme Security

Mark Jaquith recently gave a good presentation on writing secure WordPress themes and plugins at Wordcamp Phoenix 2011. The notes are also available. The main points are: Protect against SQL Injection by using the API whenever possible (because it automatically handles data sanitization). If the API can’t do what you need, use $wpdb->prepare(). Protect against […]

Ian Dunn

WordPress Developer

Tag Archives: Mark Jaquith

Regolith

Preventing a Plugin from Automatically Updating

Getting Pricing Right

Using Constants for a Text Domain in WordPress

Another Obtuse Attempt to Control the Internet

WordPress Plugin and Theme Security