This morning, I was reading ArsTechnica like I do every morning, and saw an article about how yet another popular WordPress plugin was found to have a remote execution vulnerability. The comments on the article were predictably bad and misinformed, so I decided to look into the security fix and see what caused the original […]
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WordPress Access Control 4
I’ve been extremely busy as of late, but I managed to find some time to update my WordPress Access Control plugin to version 4! With version 4, I’ve rewritten the Walker class that I use to remove pages from the menu if a user doesn’t have access to them. Before, I implemented a custom Walker […]
WordPress – Seamless Optional SSL
Recently I ran into a problem where I needed a site that would support SSL, optionally (for a Facebook application). The site needed to stay in SSL if that’s what was requested, and stay in non-SSL if that’s what was requested. The problem I ran into was that WordPress generated URLs would either point to […]
WordPress ORM Plugin
I had some spare time recently, and wrote a very light weight ORM plugin for WordPress, meant for developers. It lets you create models that are persisted to custom tables, and makes querying and saving these models very easy. I wrote documentation for it, so I recommend you check it out on GitHub at brandonwamboldt/wp-orm. […]
WordPress Must-Use Plugins
At this point in time, WordPress remains the easiest-to-use “CMS” available to us, so I end up developing quite a few sites with it. Somehow, there is this great feature I’ve never heard of until a few weeks back, so I thought I’d share with the class. WordPress has this feature called “Must Use Plugins“, […]
New Premium Plugin Available
I’ve been working on a new plugin for the past week or two, writing documentation for it, and testing it quite extensively. It finally got accepted on CodeCanyon, a marketplace for premium plugins and code. My plugin is called Easy Custom CSS Stylesheets, and it allows you to create unlimited stylesheets which are stored in […]
Share users amongst two WordPress sites
If you have two WordPress sites and would like to share users among them, it’s quite easy. Both sites will unfortunately have to use the same database, with different table prefixes (Please note: This can cause issues with poorly written plugins that don’t use the WordPress prefix option). On your first site, in the wp-config.php […]
New version of WPAC out
I just updated one of my more popular plugins, WordPress Access Control. The newest version, 3.0, includes an admin options interface for setting various default values and behaviours. I’ve also added compatibility for posts and custom post types (Directly from the admin interface), and fixed issues with searching. You can now decide to not show […]
WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was just released and I’m already running it on one of my sites. It’s fantastic, they fixed and added quite a few nice things We have the ability to query multiple taxonomies now Custom post types can have archive/index pages (Using the template post-type-archive-{$post_type}.php) The link dialog box lets you search […]
Easy WordPress Theme Options
For the most up-to-date information visit the plugin page I’ve been getting really annoyed every time I want to add options to my theme and I have to copy a huge mess of code that just isn’t fun to use. You know what I mean. Most theme developers now include configurable options in their themes, […]