The fine folks from WPMU DEV are running a cool giveaway for 1 annual membership, a $219 value. Who ? Win what? WPMU DEV is a WordPress community that features premium WordPress 24-7 support, plugins, and themes. Members get unlimited access to WPMU DEV plugins and themes, as well as constant access to our talented team of developers. One lucky…
Here is a story about a guy who tried to speak a language he didn't know. Like Twilight, there are several chapters in that story, but don't worry, it's not about sissy hormone troubled teenagers trying to grasp the meaning of life.
I have a new face! Move your mouse over me to see, hoo, look, no more glasses! At the end of 2012 I decided I had enough of wearing glasses and went for some laser eye surgery, pew pew. Before: short sighted to the point I would not recognise someone 50 centimeters away when not wearing my glasses. Now: I…
Do you know that logo? It's the logo of the Open Source Initiative, a non-profit formed to advocate for the benefits of open source, and de facto, the logo for open source stuff in general. Personally, I rarely see that logo used anywhere, which is a shame. For the sake of promoting Open Source, and because I like that logo…
I was having a look at my Profile page on WordPress.org and wondered how many downloads all my plugins had. Start Menu, Accessories, Calculat.. HEY? What am I doing here? Bookmarklet Fun The following Javascript snippet will do the job for you: Which makes that bookmarklet: Plugin Count. Drag to your bookmarks or right click and bookmark it, head to…
I wrote a simple WordPress plugin to address a simple problem: every 2 weeks, on every computer I'm working on, I have to login again to my blogs and, oh the annoyance, click the "Remember Me" checkbox because by blogs can't remember to remember me. Longer auth cookie expiration (one year instead of 2 weeks) and always checked checkbox: that's…
I said the other day that I wanted Git t-shirts, because when I like something, I want t-shirts of it. I couldn't find any. So I made some: Git t-shirts The Git logo by Jason Long has a very permissive license (CC BY) that allows practically anything as long as the author's name is mentionned. And to be extra sure,…
I think I've set up a pretty efficient Git environment on Windows and, as promised in a previous post about my Git initiatic journey, I'm sharing it, hoping it'll be useful to someone. Another quite lengthy post I'm afraid, feel free to grab a cup of something before you start reading.
I've been speaking lately with folks from Spamhaus about anti spam measure in YOURLS and a YOURLS plugin for this. Currently the #1 result in Google for "spamhaus PHP" is a post on Lockergnome which gets it totally wrong and provides a script that does not work, so here is a PHP script that does work. This script checks a…
I'm a SVN user. Nowadays, all the cool kids have a Github account where they host stuff and use Git as their primary Source Control tool, and prefer it over the usual SVN you've probably got to use. I'm not a cool kid and for the last few years (since WordPress started the plugin repository using SVN I think —…