24 Dec 2009 at 10:56 by Andy Towler
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 [...]
23 Dec 2009 at 12:23 by Andy Towler
As a web developer who is gradually focussing more and more on WordPress as my preferred technology platform, I release plugins from time to time, if I believe they might be suitable for general use. I’ve only released two so far, but I am sure there will be more in the near future.
In fact, [...]
19 Dec 2009 at 07:37 by Andy Towler
I woke up rather early this morning to the news that WordPress 2.9 has now passed through all its testing and release candidate cycles, and is now available.
This is great news for all WordPress developers and bloggers, because this release is a “second digit” release and therefore more than just a collection of security tweaks [...]
20 Nov 2009 at 07:17 by Andy Towler
If you’re at all familiar with the WordPress content management / blogging system, you’ll be aware that WordPress sites are built around the WordPress application core (this provides the functionality) and a theme (this provides the design and, to some extent, the site structure), with plugins filling the gaps between what the core and theme [...]
22 Oct 2009 at 11:28 by Andy Towler
Recent attacks have shown that keeping WordPress installations up-to-date is absolutely vital. If you have WordPress installations and they’re not yet running at least 2.8.4, ask yourself why not?
Self-hosted WordPress upgrades are supposed to be really easy, but the “one-click” upgrade process is flawed and only works on certain hosts, and these certain hosts [...]