21 Oct 2009 at 08:07 by Andy
A new version of WordPress has been released. This isn’t the major, extra-improved 2.9 that all WordPress developers are waiting for, but rather a minor interim release to harden existing installations against recent attack methods. From the WordPress site:- The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is [...]
18 Oct 2009 at 17:09 by Andy
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 [...]
06 Oct 2009 at 18:44 by Andy
When designing and building websites, any professional will tell you that you should test in as many browsers as possible. In the real world, the number you can actually test in may be quite small, depending on your operating system and how many computers you have access to, but you can still set up a [...]
18 Aug 2009 at 13:37 by Andy
What is KeePass? KeePass Password Safe, to give it its full name, is a free, open-source, password manager available on multiple platforms and also suitable for self-contained operation on a USB stick. The official build is for Windows though it has been ported to Linux, Mac, Blackberry, iPhone, etc. Disclaimer: I have no commercial or [...]
14 Jul 2009 at 17:32 by Andy
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, [...]