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WordPress 2009/04/14 1 min read

Admin Drop Down Menu: Now Fully uneM nwoD porD nimdA

OK, let's step down a bit from Twitter for a while. This is a much overdue update to the übercòól Admin Drop Down Menu. Aside from minor tweaks related to the upcoming WordPress 2.8, more languages than ever (German being the latest addition), the plugin is now fully RTL friendly (hence the so witty post title) I'm warmly thanking a…

WordPress 2009/03/26 1 min read

Ebook: Writing Secure WordPress Plugins

Best practices when it comes to writing plugins is a frequently asked question on the wp-hackers mailing list. Good news: Mark Jaquith, one of the WordPress core developers, has an ebook planned: Too many WordPress plugins have security issues. Solution: I'm writing a short e-book on how to write secure WordPress plugins. I'll buy.

WordPress 2009/03/05 2 min read

WordPress Plugins for More Productive Development

Coders using WordPress, this post is for you. Here are a few plugins that should make your WordPress hacking life faster, happier, and more productive. What a promise, heh? :) Plugin: User Switching John Blackbourn freshly released this handy plugin with which you can instantly swap between user accounts, without having to log out then log back in as another…

WordPress 2009/02/20 2 min read

echo __(‘I Hate Localizing My Plugins. How About Something Different?’);

Most of the time, I quite like coding WordPress plugins. Nonetheless, in the programming flow, there is something that I hate: all the localization process that takes place at the end of a project. That is, making sure I didn't hardcode a string that won't be translated, creating or updating the .pot template files ("OK, for the 1000th time, how…

The almighty DD32, who is responsible for a number of WordPress features including the plugin updater and installer, has put up a quick documentation of the WordPress Plugin information API (used to fetch informations from the official plugin repository). WordPress hackers: bookmark it. (And, ho, by the way: happy new year everybody:)

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WordPress 2008/12/11 1 min read

Admin Drop Down Menu for WordPress 2.7

Argh, the dev team caught me by surprise: when I saw WP 2.7 RC2 yesterday, I thought I had a couple of days more, but they decided to release the final 2.7 a few hours later :) So, rather than respond to gazillions (or so) of comments asking about an upgrade, I've committed earlier this morning version 3.0 of Admin…

WordPress 2008/11/05 1 min read

A WordPress Plugin To Let Everybody Log In as admin

A WordPress plugin that would let everybody log in as 'admin'… sounds stupid, right? It might, but this is what I really needed. When I'm testing something under different browsers, I hate it when I have to login multiple times (once with MSIE, once with Firefox…) to view the same admin page. So, basically, No Login makes your admin backend…

WordPress 2008/10/18 1 min read

WordPress 2.7 is Killing my Plugins. Hooray!

The unstable version of WordPress is now showing version "2.7-almost-beta" and you pretty much see most of what it's going to be. Basically… WordPress 2.7 is killing my plugins! Absolute Comments probably won't get updated for 2.7 since most of its feature will be built-in. Almost 3 years ago I wrote the first ever Admin Drop Down Menu plugin and…

WordPress 2008/08/24 2 min read

A Comment Counter For Liz Strauss

As you may have read it already on Lorelle's blushful announcement, I made a Comment Counter widget for Liz Strauss. Liz Strauss is considered to be an expert in the art of engaging conversations and, for blog, comments (I dig her blog tagline "You're only a stranger once"). One day Lorelle and Liz were chatting about how successful she was…

WordPress 2008/08/23 1 min read

Admin Drop Down Menu, Now With More Safari, Fluency, MU & Columns.

Edit: Oops! I actually forgot to press the "Commit" button :) Now you can get the new version! Here is another update of your favorite plugin, the ubermighty Admin Drop Down Menu. I'll make it short: Fixed: a bug with Safari & OSX that was causing sort of blank screens. Thanks to Dale for being a tester for me. He…