Just went to check my ohloh stats today to find I have reached a milestone in my work as a WordPress lead developer.
According to there counts I have made 500 commits to the trunk section on the WordPress subversion repository.
Author: westi
Solving confusing ssh problems
Last night I was setting up my new Time Capsule and suddenly lost access to all my remote servers over ssh.
All I got was the following error upon connection ‘ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host” and everything I searched around the web implied this was to do with too many connections to the server or incorrect reverse dns setup.
Neither or these issues applied to me and for a while I was stumped until it dawned on me that the Time Capsule had a much better NAT implementation it in with specific handlers for different protocols and I have all my servers configured to accepting incoming ssh connections on a non-standard port so as to reduce the number of ssh probe attacks. Once I opened up a different port that isn’t used for other protocols by default it all burst back into life.
Hopefully, this will help someone who encounters the same problem in the future!
Blog Minder
Yesterday I put the finishing touches to my new Blog Minder plugin.
This plugin will remind you if you have not posted something new on your blog recently enough based on a threshold you set on a per-user basis.
Ideal for making sure a site keeps getting updated with fresh content on a regular basis.
Hopefully it is going to make me post more often here too!
Updated child queries, now with limits!
By popular request I have updated my Query Child Of plugin to support limiting the number of child pages returned (and to support the ability for this limit to be offset).
The plugin is also now hosted on WordPress.org Extend as PJW Query Child Of and I have also writen up some example php code so as to make it really easy to use!