Category Archives: WordPress
bbPress Official Launch
October 13, 2006 – 11:35 pm
I’ve already been using the alpha version of the bbPress forum software for over a year and a half, but tonight the developers released the first official version, with a nice new default theme. For me its greatest appeal is that it integrates easily with WordPress and has a similar callback architecture. Having struggled with […]
Integrating Vanilla Forum and WordPress Themes
September 8, 2006 – 8:56 pm
The folks at Vanilla have a handy guide to integrating the database tables and cookies of WordPress and Vanilla, but they don’t explain how to use the WordPress themes in Vanilla. It’s pretty simple. First, you need to include the WordPress files. A good place to do this is at the bottom of the Vanilla […]
New WordPress Plugin: Hide Emails from Spambots
August 11, 2006 – 10:56 am
Over a year ago I showed how I like to hide email addresses using JavaScript. A recent project made it convenient to wrap that into a WordPress plugin. Basically, it looks for email addresses within posts and pages and converts them into a form that JavaScript then renders normal-looking. For example, my address, if.website (located […]
WordPress 2.0.4
July 28, 2006 – 7:59 pm
The WordPress developers have just released WordPress version 2.0.4, a bug-fix and security patch release. The security flaw it fixes is so easily exploitable that if you’re a WordPress user you need to run not walk to the WP download site and upgrade today.
Plugin: Remove the WordPress Dashboard
May 24, 2006 – 11:44 pm
On my way to doing something else, I came up with this plugin that removes the Dashboard from the admin control panel. Note that the GPL license is longer than the actual plugin.