Category Archives: WordPress
A Plugin for WordPress 2.3: Include Categories in the Tag Cloud
June 16, 2007 – 5:34 pm
I’m running the cutting-edge development version of the WordPress blogging platform (known as “trunk” to WordPress geeks). So I’m enjoying some of the features that will appear in the next version of WordPress, 2.3, which will probably be released towards the end of the summer. The biggest new feature for 2.3 so far is built-in […]
WordPress 2.2: Three Things Developers Will Like
May 16, 2007 – 2:10 am
In the newly released WordPress 2.2 the built-in widget support is likely to get most of the attention. Here are three things you as a WordPress plugin or theme developer might also find useful. You can now set your site’s “home” and “siteurl” values in the wp-config.php file Say you have a production site and […]
WP-DB-Backup: Important Security Update
May 9, 2007 – 12:47 am
Thanks to Alex Concha for pointing out a security vulnerability in the WordPress database backup plugin, which I’ve fixed in the latest version, 2.1.0. If you’re using any previous version of the plugin, including version 1.7 bundled with the 2.0.x line, it’s very important that you upgrade. Please note that for security reasons, the plugin […]
WordPress Relocation Without Editing the Database
March 20, 2007 – 5:07 pm
Here’s a tip I picked up on the WordPress hackers’ list: you can change the “siteurl” WordPress option simply by adding define(‘RELOCATE’,true); to the wp-config.php file and browsing to wp-login.php. The “siteurl” option—or what’s called “WordPress address” under the admin options menu—is a database value that refers to where the actual WordPress files live, as […]
WordPress Database Backup Re-release: Version 2.0
January 22, 2007 – 3:28 am
With WordPress version 2.1 scheduled to appear later today, I’m releasing a new version of the popular WordPress Database Backup plugin. Originally developed by Skippy who’s now working on projects other than WordPress, this plugin has been bundled with WordPress installations for about a year. But today users downloading version 2.1 of WordPress will discover […]
New WordPress Plugin: Google AdSense Targeting
November 14, 2006 – 8:58 pm
Thanks to this article [Edited July 29, 2009: the old link is dead and now a spam site], I learned that Google AdSense—the ads many use on their blogs, including me—has a way to focus your AdSense ads on the most relevant content. The problem is that blogs often discuss a variety of topics, and […]