The .1 update that many people said they were waiting for is here. (And there are reminders all over every admin page on my blog, too.) Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if [...]
I’ve gotten into the habit of actually reading the various blogs to which there are links on my WordPress dashboard and I saw this today from boren.nu: To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable [...]
Scribblit => Inksome (but scribblit.com still works… for now? until May 10 [updated based on comment below]) CommieJournal to close May 1 unless they raise the money to cover $169/month hosting bill. (If they cover this month’s bill, will the date just become June 1? I don’t know.)
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Posted 22 April 2008
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Tagged: cj, clone, commiejournal, inksome, livejournal, lj, lj clone, lj code, LJ-Stat, scribblit, stat, stats
I not only wanted to integrate my own other things into my WordPress-based site, but I wanted forums, too, so of course I thought of bbPress. It seems to integrate well with WordPress, but then suddenly strange things started happening with login and logout. For instance, when I logged in with bbPress, I couldn’t get [...]
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Posted 20 April 2008
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Web Programming
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Tagged: authentication, bbpress, cookie, cookie domain, cookies, domain, integration, login, user, user authentication, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress login, wp, wp2.5
If, like me, you find yourself doing lots of random web stuff, particularly with all the HTML, CSS, MySQL, and PHP that go along with it, you may find yourself looking for a good reference book so you can quickly check the syntax of that one thing you only use like once a year and [...]
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Posted 17 April 2008
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Tagged: bob stein, browser book, card, css, guide, html, manual, mysql, php, reference, reference card, syntax, visibone
After implementing other pages that used WordPress to authenticate users and deal with access control, I went to move these pages off to a subdomain, and suddenly found that auth_redirect wasn’t quite working right. When auth_redirect is called and doesn’t find a logged-in user, it redirects to login and passes the URI of the current [...]
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Posted 16 April 2008
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Tagged: 2.5, authentication, auth_redirect, filter, filter hook, login, php, pluggable, plugin, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wp, wp plugin, wp2.5, wp_redirect, wp_safe_redirect
Since I’ve already hit on SQL injection issues twice in the past two days (here directly and here indirectly through the non-issue with WP and SQL injection), why not add a cartoon to the mix…
Right, of course, I should be doing this already, but having magic quotes in PHP4 may hvae made me a bit lazy in some instances, and just like I’ve been going through and fixing register_globals dependence… As I read here, Both register_globals and Magic Quotes were implemented in PHP to help beginners who were learning [...]
5 minutes is a long time for upgrading WP, as far as I’m concerned. I think it might have taken 5 minutes total to upgrade all three of my current WP installs and check/fix plugin issues. Mind you, I use the subversion method of upgrading. If you have shell access and can run subversion, it [...]