Reliably Detecting The WordPress Version

December 2nd, 2009

Sometimes you might want to find out if a website is built with WordPress, and which specific version of WP it’s running. In this post I’ll discuss a number of detection techniques, including ways to deal with sites that hide the fact that they’re running WordPress or spoof the [...] Continue Reading…


15+ Useful Firefox Addons For Web Developers

November 27th, 2009

Everyone already knows and loves Firebug and Web Developer. So instead of another redundant “Top 10″ list, here’s a collection of 15+ great add-ons that you might not have heard about yet.
Dust-Me Selectors

Dust-Me Selectors helps you find unused CSS selectors. You can use it to test an individual page, [...] Continue Reading…


Broken Link Checker 0.7 – Now With Search & Filters

November 24th, 2009

Behold, a new version of the Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is available! This release includes the routine batch of bug fixes, two new translations (Spanish and Belorussian), an option to mark removed links with a special CSS class and, most importantly, a Search box :

The URL field [...] Continue Reading…


Game Review : Love

November 20th, 2009

I must admit, I’ve always been a sucker for sandbox-style gameplay. I’ve wasted hours playing with Falling Sand and it’s variants, spent weeks building fortresses for alcoholic dwarves, and I still log into Minecraft almost every day. So it was only natural that when I heard that an alpha [...] Continue Reading…


Detecting Parked Domains

November 13th, 2009

Some time ago, a commenter asked me if it was possible to make one of my WordPress plugins detect and report parked domains. I’ve done some research since then, and while it’s probably not practical to add such a feature to the plugin, I did come up with several [...] Continue Reading…