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Why should developers pick WordPress?

Feb 12th, 2009

If you are a developer and haven't pick which web publishing train to jump to yet, here are few hints. WordPress is used by Government agencies At WordCamp San Franciso 2008 the list of government agencies using WordPress was revealed.

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Away from WordPress, away from life…

Dec 11th, 2008

I hanged my tie on the wall almost a year ago and decided going lone ranger for a while. This got me into the wonderful world of WordPress and everything that came afterward, including the book I am writing on WordPress development. Today I had a meeting for a partnership offer in a soon to be big media company.

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Improving security in WordPress plugins using Nonces

Nov 19th, 2008

Using a nonce (number used once) is the best way to protect your plugin against a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) hacker-attack. Nonces are used on requests (saving options in admin, Ajax requests, performing an action etc) and prevent unauthorized access by providing a secret 'key' and checking it each time the code is used.

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Dogfooding WordPress plugins

Aug 28th, 2008

Dogfooding or 'eating one's own dog food' is a term used for a company that is confident in it's own product (if it was a dog food they would feed their own dog with it). I thought it is a rather good term and describes why I started writing WordPress plugins. I needed a certain functionality and it was not going to be available until I personally made it - and that is how most of my plugins came to life.

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Adding boxes to WordPress 2.5+ Write Post panel

Aug 25th, 2008

I have noticed few inconsistencies in the WordPress 2.6.1 code regarding the methods to add content boxes to the WordPress Write Post panel. The old way included usingadd_action('dbx_post_advanced', 'myplugin_old_custom_box' ); add_action('dbx_post_sidebar', 'myplugin_old_custom_box' );which would add a box to the Advanced section and Sidebar. However since version 2.5 dbx_post_sidebar actually adds a box to the end of Advanced section not the sidebar.

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Show me Options and Snazzy Archives plugins release

Jul 11th, 2008

I have two very cool WordPress plugins to announce today. How many times have you activated a plugin and the searched hopelessly for it's options page? With new plugins it is like a trend to hide them better. Show Me Options is a plugin designed to give you a link to the options page when you need it and where you want it.Snazzzzzy Archives This other plugin, Snazzy Archives, is maybe something you have been waiting for a long time. A WordPress archives page you are proud to use and show.