ZigPressYesterday, Twitter updated its API (the method by which websites and other programs access Twitter feeds) so that a particular kind of authentication (oAuth) is required. “Big woop”, you may say, or possibly “what are you talking about?”. Well, if you use WordPress, it may affect you. What it means is that any WordPress plugins [...]
Sometimes I take on the maintenance of existing WordPress-based websites, and obviously part of my initial work is to assess a site’s performance, stability, extent of customisation, etc. It all boils down to getting to know what I’ve taken on so that I can find the easiest ways to maintain it in the future. One [...]
Sometimes you need to be able to hide the update notices in the WordPress admin pages. One example is when your clients have sufficient admin access to see them, but you don’t want them to try an upgrade and risk destroying the site if something goes wrong. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, right? [...]
UPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2009 – VERSION 2.1 Ever wanted to show your tweets in a widget on your WordPress sidebar (as on this site)? Now you can. This widget used on this site is one that I developed myself, based loosely on other plugins and tutorials (including some borrowed code duly acknowledged in comments), and [...]
This is my first publicly-released WordPress plugin (there will be more), and I decided to start with a really simple one – in fact, this is one that I created a little while ago, to teach myself how to write a plugin from scratch. By default, WordPress adds three tags to each page’s <head> section, [...]
