WordPress Upgrade Script

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR echo…

Looking for Translators

My next plugin is ready for shipping, but I like it so much already that I want to give it some special treatment: a polyglot release. I'm looking for a few kind translators willing to spend 3 minutes to take care of about 20 words or short sentences, and translate these in their mother tongue. I'm doing the English and…

Trynt: those folks provide free-to-use REST APIs for a big bunch of stuff. Google or del.icio.us or Flickr related, Whois data, tag suggesting, Captchas, credit card validation, you name it. This looks like a really excellent stuff. Bookmarked.

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Anti Spam Tip of the Day : Complain !

For the past few days, I've received a decent amount of spam from the same machine and domain, hosted on Hostgator. Deciding that enough was enough and that I had a minute of my life to waste, I sent an email to abuse@hostgator with some details from my Akismet screen. I wasn't really expecting much… till I received a reply…

Who Sees Ads Trivial Update #1337

Yet another slight update to Who Sees Ads. This release, stamped 1.3.3, fixes a small glitch that would make the "Help Intro and Wizard" always show, and also fixes a bug in the way custom search engines can be defined in your my_options.php. On the prospective side of things, I'm currently searching (if there is) a way to make Who…

Who Sees Ads 1.3.2

Welcome back to the "Who Sees Ads" blog. No, seriously, I'd really like to get over this now, but I guess it's all my fault if when I add features, some pesky bugs manage to sneak in :) Some were quite trivial to fix, but I'd like to publicly thank Steffen Richter again for his help. Steffen sent me the…

Who Sees Ads 1.3 (Final ?)

Another upgrade for Who Sees Ads, everybody's favorite ad management plugin. This version is not a trivial bug fix but do contains a few interesting stuff for everybody. New features: Widget support! Thanks to the excellent Denis de Bernardy's suggestions and code, widget aware themes can now fully manage object positioning in their sidebars. A widget is created for each…