Category: WordPress

  • WordCamp Europe 2014: Sofia, Bulgaria

    All images in this post provided under the CC-BY-SA license.

  • WordPress security: the case for dependency management

    Two things happened in the last week to spark this post; I gave the weekly “Show and Tell” at work on my favourite things about Drupal that I’d like WordPress to learn from (one of them should appear in 4.1, by the way), and yesterday a vulnerability was revealed in the still popular TimThumb library used by many WordPress…

  • Could/should the WordPress Foundation do more?

    Genuine question. A couple of posts have caught my attention over the last week; Australia wants Drupal-based gov-wide CMS by Simon Dickson (obviously, ’cause he’s the boss nowadays) What can the WordPress community learn from the state of Drupal? by John Eckman It got me thinking about the WordPress Foundation and whether it could do more to…

  • Hiding bbPress topics from logged out users

    I just spent hours figuring this out so I thought I’d try and save others the bother by sharing it here. The basic aim was to hide the contents of topics in a bbPress 2.0 forum from any users not logged in. This makes for a nice private forum. I found suggestions about making forums…