Xdebug on Ubuntu for WordPress
Turns out enabling Xdebug on Ubuntu for Eclipse PDT is easier than doing the same on Windows. The short version is installing the module as per this tutorial – http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525257 sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear sudo pecl install xdebug sudo updatedb locate xdebug (this one finds the xdebug path) sudo gedit /etc/php/apache2/php.ini Adding this line [...]
Plugin Base Skeleton
I got tired working on plugins and writing the same code snippets all over again, looking in the same old tutorial sites or my favorite WP 3 Plugin Dev book. So I released a startup script for plugins - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dx-plugin-base/ . It contains most of the important snippets required for every plugin – registration of custom post [...]
eval() error check
We all know how dangerous eval() is in terms of security, but still it is the necessary evil sometimes. I’ve been developing a script last week that required eval() execution. I did pretty granular input validation with regular expressions and known troubleish test cases. Still, some expressions passed to the eval() function were prone to [...]
Christmas WordPress Podcast #3
Hi again, It’s my third podcast on WordPress. Today we cover the holidays and some news from people in the WP community, tutorials and interviews as well as some tips and tricks. Enjoy!
Recommended WP hostings – Podcast
Recently I found a research on WP hosting providers by WPShout - http://wpshout.com/wordpress-hosting-review/ . It is a pretty good review and I have used servers from most of the hosting providers listed there so I decided that this could be my next podcast. In this review I’m going through the list from the site summarizing what is [...]
WordPress 3.3 – Podcast
Welcome to the WordPress 3.3 platform! This is my first podcast introducing some of the new features and important notes about the platform. Should you be interested in these podcast attempts, don’t hesitate to comment.
Install a theme on WordPress 101
Due to a ticket from a very green user today, wanted to note a few things for theme installing on WordPress. First of all, I have a quick video on install on Screenr for Progressio - http://www.screenr.com/DcLs Two important tips: When you download a theme, you need to actually add it to a WordPress installation. This [...]
ManageWP – the XXI century migration
One awesome service I’ve found recently is the ManageWP one – service that allows you to manage all your WP sites through one dashboard only. Since we’ve found it we no longer use the BackupBuddy plugin (except for some specific cases of course). However ManageWP let us clone our installs and do fresh installations for [...]
