Wordpress Plugin Comments Referer

Basically this will add a session based Referer to your comments, we try to catch the first entry point, any improvements let me know.

Download the plugin here wp-refer

Unzip the file and upload into your plugins directory, then activate ..

Dave

I had this Plugin written in house because I was getting abuse on some of my early post’s .. it’s truly awesome when some one leaves a comments like “you sick f*ck how you do that to your cat” and “die f*cker” on this post shaven pussy lol..
2’s things

a) it’s not my cat I said that in the post so rtfa
b) wtf ..YOU where searching for shaven pussy what did you expect to see !!!

If you want the plugin leave a comment and I will get it uploaded later today

DaveN

Ok one of my wifes favourite sayings at the moment is “busy idiots”, basically you are busy all the time but never focused enough to get things done. I have been looking at different open source solutions to stop 0 day expoilts, XSS hacks , and in fairness there are quite a few open source products out there, but the time and effort setting them up is just crazy, so I have decided to do a deal with Firewall Script. We are going to be including it in all our new wordpress client installs, I really like this product a lot, it’s easy to install and set up, so easy Dan almost did it here .. lol..

Anyway I want your points of view on it, the cost is just over £40, is it worth it? I mean have you ever tried to install modsecurity on a shared hosting platform?

Dave

So I create a few Free Wordpress Themes, let say 10 add a bit of copy say ..

Welcome to Free Wordpress Themes I decided to create a set of 10 Free Wordpress themes and the terms are. they are 100% free wordpress themes for personal or commercial use, You don’t have to pay me a penny in fact you don’t have to pay anyone a penny. they are totally ready to use with Wordpress 2.5. Just install and go! ….

I think I got the fact that they where free, so the foot links should be good, well I could always included a license in the download and edit the rss output and pingback etc ;)

but free wordpress themes is quite a competitive term I guess, unless I PPC

until it ranks for that term then just keep changing the footer links ..

so for should I build 10 kick arse awesome and Free Wordpress templates ? or would Google just fuck me over :(

DaveN

Wordpress as a content management tool is great, lets face it everything is in one place and the development opportunities are somewhat endless. The amount of scrapers on the web can be a real pain in the neck, so when a new plugin is developed that makes scrapers work for you rather than against you my ears pricked up.

Why not have a look at Joost’s latest working make scrapers work for you.

Dan Horton

For All you wordpress keyboard freaks when writing a post you can use these KEYBOARD combos

Alt+Shift P - publish the Post
Alt+Shift B - bold text
Alt+Shift I - italic text
Alt+Shift Q - Blockquote
Alt+Shift T - insert More tag
Alt+Shift U - Unordered list
Alt+Shift O - Ordered list
Alt+Shift L - list item
Alt+Shift A - link
Alt+Shift C - insert the code box
Alt+Shift S - ins
Alt+Shift D - del

DaveN

I keep getting asked what plug in i use to display the code snippets on my blog.

like this

[php]
< ?php
$arr_plus_one = array_map(create_function("int", "return ++$int;"), $arr);
?>
[/php]

well it’s igsyntax which is built on GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter

DaveN

Ok on David Naylor I hope you noticed the 2 widget sidebars, well here is the code:

in your Theme’s function.php

[php]if (function_exists(”register_sidebar”)) {
register_sidebar(Array(”name” => “sidebar”));
register_sidebar(Array(”name” => “sponsors”));
}[/php]

Then in your template to add for column 1
[php]
< ?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') or !dynamic_sidebar("sidebar")) { ?> etc.. < ?php } ?>
[/php]

and likewise for column 2
[php]
< ?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') or !dynamic_sidebar("sponsors")) { ?> etc.. < ?php } ?>
[/php]

screen shoot for Admin panel on it

DaveN

I’m pissed off.

I’m trying to write a sidebar widget for the new WordPress. It’s a really simple widget, in fact it only has one option. Since widgets are part of WordPress now, naturally I thought - as the premier blogging platform, that I’d find some well-written API documentation on the codex detailing how to go about interfacing with the dynamic sidebar and admin section.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Yeah I was wrong.

In fact, the best I could come up with was an insultingly nonchalant overview at Automattic’s website along with some kind of excuse for an API.

I defy anyone to write a sidebar widget that works with the built-in widgets UIs using the information on these websites. I reckon you can get close but there’s bits of information missing about the admin panel. Apparently there’s some Google Search widget that you can look at that’s well-commented but I can’t find that anywhere within my WordPress source tree.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the laid-back “cool Web 2.0″ style but there are boundaries. And saying API Documentation is “for eggheads” is a bit childish, honestly.

Hooray,, that means the xmlrpc exploit will be fixed.

WordPress 2.2.1 fixes Atom feed validations
WordPress 2.2.1 fixes XML-RPC
WordPress 2.2.1 fixes Widget layout in IE7
WordPress 2.2.1 fixes Page and Text Widget improvements

problems in 2.2

Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
Unescaped attribute in default theme

DaveN