At the WordPress Sydney meetup a few months ago we had an evening (two even!) on security. Wil Brown gave an excellent presentation on general WordPress best practices, as well as useful security plugins, and even more practices for the extra paranoid. Check out the WordPress security presentation on Slideshare. Since then Wil has also […]
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I’ve spent a bit of time on my websites over the last few weeks. It was partly instigated by my deleting some themes on my server that I thought weren’t in use, but actually were! :O Of course I had backups, but when I restored them they didn’t work immediately, and rather than fluff about […]
Dash: snippets & documentation
I’ve been using Dash as one of my code snippet managers (along with Gist for public snippets & Coda). I originally chose Dash for its shortcut auto-fill features (and it’s free with in-app upgrade on the Mac App Store!), but have recently found its offline documentation completely excellent. I primarily use the WordPress and PHP […]
WordPress Taxonomy Converter
Recently I went looking for a way to copy or move tags to a new taxonomy. I was a bit surprised that I couldn’t find anything. There’s no WordPress function that just does it, and the few taxonomy management plugins I found either haven’t been updated in years, or didn’t seem to work (at least […]
BuddyPress & Thesis 2.1
So, I’ve been checking Thesis 2.1.2, bbPress and BuddyPress. It looks to me like it’s all working; no boxes needed.
bbPress & Thesis 2.1
Thesis 2.0 needed a “box” (similar to a template part) to establish bbPress compatibility. Thesis 2.1 doesn’t need the box anymore; you just need to check that your skin settings display the content on any page that needs to display bbPress pages. Show The Content In order to show the content on all bbPress pages […]