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As you might know, when you log in to a WordPress blog a session cookie is created that serves as a kind of authentication “key”. This is what lets you stay logged in and access various areas of the dashboard without having to enter your password every time. However, if a hacker was to get […]

A simple WordPress plugin that sorts the items in Settings, Plugins and Manage dashboard menus in A-Z order.

I’ve created a simple plugin based on an idea somebody posted on WordPress Extend Ideas – Right now, when you’re drafting a WordPress post in WP 2.5.1, the “Save” and “Publish” buttons are right next to each other. It’s generally a bad thing in user interface heuristics to put a destructive or non-undoable action (such […]

I’ve started up two longterm projects at the same time (one is top secret linkbait stuff, the other just top secret 😉 ), so I don’t have much time/ideas for new posts at the moment. Irrespective of that, there is one plugin that I have been working on and testing for a while – my […]

Recently I needed to put some style definitions and a JavaScript function in a post on another blog that I have. I wasted several hours trying to do this, because WordPress insisted on putting backslashes in front of my apostrophes, inserting superfluous <p> or <br /> tags in place of newlines, and generally breaking my HTML in various horrible ways.

In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.