On March, 11th an update of the popular plugin “WordPress SEO” was published because the previous version contains serious security vulnerabilities (CSRF and blind SQL injection).
During the day some people noted that Yoast didn’t use all possible channels to call attention to the situation.
I personally couldn’t understand the problem because I already had installed the new version before noon. How could this be? Continue reading WordPress – You’ve got updates!
The other day I ways looking into the HTML code of the flickr site and found this:
I think this is a really cute idea because if you decide to look at the code you probably have some understanding od the stuff…
A user of my WordPress plugin Linklist wanted to use it in conjunction with a Like/Unlike plugin.
Unfortunately Linklist also listed the like/unlike links of the plugin and put the list behind the Like icon:
This is not the way it’s supposed to be. So I added two more options:
In the above example the result will look like this:
… and yes, Linklist is compatible with WordPress 3.8.
The last update to the pagebar plugin has been made over a year ago. Since all new ideas will be included in version 3 and the plugin was working fine with every new update of WordPress there was no need for an update.
The other day Borisa Djuraskovic of “Webhosting Hub” wrote me an email that he has created a Serbian language file. This was a good opportunity to introduce a small feature that was spinning in my head for some time:
Continue reading Minor update to pagebar plugin (v2.65)
Watches do have a a common problem: the good one’s are quite expensive and you don’t want to scratch them during daily handicrafts. The cheap one’s are kaputt after such a short time that buying them isn’t worth it.
This week a big German chain store offered a Casio F91-W for 9,99€. I couldn’t say no to this offer. This type of watch exists since 1991 and that cannot be a coincidence. If the watch is operable for on year I am happy but I hope that it will last longer. Let’s see what happens…
Only the “Best Wife in the World” ™ makes such a present for our wedding anniversary:
I’m afraid she will force me to watch “Stargate” or “Doktor Who” while drinking this delicious beer. Life can be cruel!
I know loads of WordPress developers by name and have an idea how they look. What I also find interesting is the way people work. Do they use a laptop, how many monitors do they use and other stuf). Here’s my desktop (I’ve tidied it up before taking the image :-)):
The machine is an “ASRock Z77 Extreme” with an i5 3,4 GHz processor, 8 GB of RAM and a Radeon HD7770 graphics card.
I’ve got two 24″ Benq monitors and yes, that’s a TV on the left side. The keyboard is a good old “Windows Natural Pro” and the mouse an IntelliMouse.
Ramon Fincken (@ramonfincken) kidded me that I have only two monitors and sent me a picture of his setup:
What a desktop! To cite him “if it’s worth doing .. it’s worth overdoing”.
(Update: Ramon tweeted his PC spces: 16GB RAM, AMD FX 8350 8core, 2x 256MB dual output asus video cards)
What does your desktop look like? Take a picture and blog about it!
Though pagebar is quite customizable you can’t define the overall look. “Previous page” is always on the most left, followed by “First” and so on but maybe you want the elements in a different order. I’m not aware that any of the paging plugins provide this feature, pagebar hopefully will do so in the next major version. Continue reading New ideas for pagebar v3 – Part 2: Customization by Drag’n Drop
It’s time to think about version 3 of pagebar. In this series I try to explain what I am planning for this new major version and invite you to discuss my plans.
I always wanted to add a fast and direct page selection. The easiest way would be to add a selection box containing all page numbers. This might work if you’re having about 10 pages but if your blog is really, really large, say about 300 pages, a select box with 300 numbers would be quite clumsy: Continue reading Ideas for pagebar v3 – Part 1: Direct page access
As far as I can remember web browsers replace the characters of a password field with stars (did Mosaic already do this?) but this feature is not always helpful. Fortunately you can change this! Continue reading Hide the password hiding stars
