WordPress Troubles ? Clean the Cache !

You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit was… WordPress' Cache. Apparently, there…

One-Click CSS Tidy Cleaning

I've been using CSSTidy lately, and I like it a lot. This is a pretty cool software that optimizes CSS files so that they are smaller and cleaner. It comes with a bunch of options and is available in Linux, OSX and Windows flavors. I'm running Windows on my test computer, and I made a convenient right click context menu…

Plugin of the Month : Better Comments

Edit: this plugin had several bugs that made me write my own take on this. Absolute Comments is in my opinion far better, go try it :) I guess every WordPress user in the world have dreamt about it : the ability to reply to a comment from within the admin area, and without visiting the post page itself first.…

How-to: PHP Script for Honey Pot’s http:BL

A few days ago, Project Honey Pot introduced a new service : http:BL, a blacklist of all the suspicious IPs they are gathering through all the honey pots, and an API allowing anyone to use this blacklist. Their API is very easy to use, and I believe a number of projects (hint) should use it any time soon. For the…