Tag: WordPress

WordPress Version Check v0.90

On By westiIn Security, WordPress2 Comments

WordPress Version Check v0.90 is now available.

The follow minor changes have been made in v0.90:

  1. Improved check for Tiger Admin Plugin – When detected alternate CSS is used for message display. Thanks to MarkJ for the new and improved CSS.
  2. readme.txt included in the zip file with installation instructions.
  3. Updated version number to 0.90.

The following new features have been added in v0.90:

  1. Added support for wp-dash plugin with a builtin WordPress Version Check widget.
  2. For advanced users who are installing this plugin on multiple blogs that they administer for others you can now enable email notification of new messages.

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WordPress Codex – Its not a playground – It’s the online documentation

On By westiIn Development, General, WordPress6 Comments

Elliott feels that he has had a bad experience on the WordPress codex and is troubled by the way it is being run. He feels that the codex has become an unfriendly playground and that he no longer wants to play.

It truth what happened was he arrived at the codex with his own preconceptions about how the site was run and how he should behave. He ran straight in without finding out what was going on and how new content was being authored.

The codex has a set of guidelines about contributing and in particular “Creating a new Page”. These state specifically that the recommended process is to create a Temporary page under your user page and work on the drafting process. Then when you feel the page is ready you move out of your User Pages and into the main content of the codex.
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WordPress Backup Week

On By westiIn Useful Links, WordPress2 Comments

Next Week, July 23rd to 30th, is WordPress Backup Week and I encourage you all to backup you blogs.

I have recently started backing up my site using skippy‘s excellent wp-db-backup plugin. If you don’t want to use a plugin to do your backups Podz has some excellent instructions for setting up a cron job to do the backups.

One thing that is worth noting which ever backup route you take is that you should keep your backups off-site to be safe. What I mean by this is that using a cron job/plugin to create backups which are then emailed to an account hosted on the same server as your blog is not necessarily a wise idea.

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WordPress Version Check v0.80

On By westiIn Security, WordPress4 Comments

WordPress Version Check v0.80 is now available. Upgrade is recommended especially if you are using the Tiger Admin UI as you will now be able to see the plugin’s messages much easier. The changes for the Tiger Admin UI have been tested with v1.3 of the Tiger Admin UI plugin.

There is also now a page for WordPress Version Check which will always have the latest news.

Changes in v0.80:

  1. Added GPL Licence Text.
  2. Added check for Tiger Admin Plugin – When detected alternate CSS is used for message display.
  3. Changed default CSS so that info level messages are displayed in grey rather than green.
  4. Added version info to the IXR UserAgent – To enable tracking versions of the plugin in use.
  5. Used action hooks to ensure only run update checks when in admin ui.
  6. Updated version number to 0.80.

Version 0.80 can be downloaded here: pjw_wp_version_monitor.0.80.zip