Source: Make WordPress: Plugins

Since WP 3.6.1, you may get odd errors like “Call to undefined function wp_validate_redirect()” errors in WP Admin where AJAX is used. The error is due to plugins that call wp_get_referer() on init. While this will be patched more in 3.6.2, today’s quick lesson in ‘Making your plugins better’ is this simple note: Doing anything…

Do you use SWFUpload? Have you been getting a lot of emails from us telling you it’s not secure? We have a solution. Or rather, WordPress has one. FORK IT The WordPress security team has officially forked the long-abandoned SWFUpload project and is strongly encouraging all web developers who use SWFUpload to update. We strongly…

This took longer than we would have liked to say, but there were communication issues on multiple fronts. You can use the Font Awesome font files and CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. in your code, per the current…

In a short while (next 30 minutes or so), plugins.svn.wordpress.org will undergo a DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System – how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). change as part of a datacenter migrationMigration Moving the code, database and…

If you have a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free…

So, I’ve had this working for a while, but not a lot of people noticed, so I figured I’d spell it out explicitly. WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as…

If you’re using the Google Maps JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com APIAPI An API or Application…

Imagine that another pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in…

Version 1.0 of their APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. is going away very soon, so if you happen to be using that, your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a…

We don’t track our progress as a project very well. We have relatively few stats that we look at over time to see how we’re growing/changing, and those we do have are largely cobbled together with various combinations of manual labor and scripting. One of the things I want to do this year is get…