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Modified YOURLS Plugin
I got tired of waiting for a “proper” YOURLS WordPress plugin to come out, so I did it myself. Hey, I’ve got other stuff to do, and I needed a working shortlink solution. Basically, this is the...
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Adding Google’s +1 Button to WordPress Sites
Google rolled out their +1 button today. So I added it here. You’ll find it below all the posts. Try it out. Here’s the simple-stupid plugin I wrote to do it. While you can just edit your theme, I like...
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A Good Use For Base 64 Encoding: Data URIs
First, WordPress plugin authors: Please don’t do this. if ( isset($_GET['resource']) && !empty($_GET['resource']) ) { $resources = array( 'icon1.png' => '... base 64 encoded code ...',...
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SFC 1.0 – Login and Registration
Another new thing in SFC 1.0 is the new Login and Registration mechanism. The login mechanism in the older SFC worked, but it was slightly buggy and didn’t work very well. The new mechanism works quite...
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SFC 1.0: A quick walkthrough
Facebook recently made a breaking change to the developer process, which makes it impossible for new applications to get the correct API keys. Since this essentially broke all previous versions of SFC,...
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Customizing WordPress Images with a Plugin: ImageFX
My post about how to customize WordPress images with tricks like greyscale and such got me lots of feedback, so I figured I might as well turn it into a plugin. The ImageFX plugin allows you to...
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Creating a Site-Specific Snippets Plugin
If you read “how-to” stuff for WordPress sites around the web, then you frequently run across what many people like to call “snippets”. Short bits of code or functions to do various things. I myself...
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Google came out with an experimental specification for websites to provide “hints” on forms, to allow things like autocomplete to work better and be more standardized. Seems useful. Here’s a quick...
View ArticleTheme/Plugin Dependencies
In trying to figure out what to talk about at WordCamp Atlanta, I remembered a question put to me in WordCamp Birmingham. The question was how can a theme developer easily make a plugin-dependency in...
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Better Know a Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
One of the easier to understand vulnerabilities is the CSRF. It’s also one of the most common issues we see in plugins and themes, because people rarely think about it. Imagine that I have a form that...
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