When hackers from (or at least through) China brought this website crashing to its knees earlier this week, I learned a valuable lesson: Keep up with patches to popular web applications.
Since my move from Movable Type to WordPress in early 2006, I’ve written (and re-written!) quite a few plugins. While I initially wrote them all for my own use, many others have found them just as useful in their own blogs.
WordPress Plugins
Devowelizer — Replaces the vowels (and a few consonants) in most “bad language” within [...]
Ever thought about creating your own WordPress theme from scratch, but were just too confused where to begin? If you’re hosting your own WordPress installation, it’s actually much easier than you think.
The most important thing to realize is that the basic structure of a WordPress theme mirrors the same structure of just about every template-based [...]
Since I migrated this blog over to WordPress just over six months ago, it has gone through many additional transformations and enhancements. WordPress’ architecture makes creating plug-ins very simple if you know some basic PHP, and — thanks to that — this blog has greatly benefited from the contributions of others:
Akismet — Now part of [...]
Happy 4th anniversary to RR…!! This blog was first created in March of 2002 with Movable Type. Eventually, with the 3.0x versions, MT migrated to a pay-per-author structure and mandatory registration with TypePad. I became disillusioned with where the franchise was heading, thanks also to some other significant user interface changes that differed greatly from [...]
With regard to the facet of my extensive experience as a web developer, make no mistake, richard’s ramblings… is not necessarily intended to be an example of what I can do in a business or corporate environment. For example, I worry less about browser compatibility, enterprise-level production quality, or ADA compliance here. Throughout the blog, [...]
I’ve been getting the usual number of spam comments on my blogs lately, but the latest trend is odd, to say the least. Most comment spammers have been advertising either their own URLs (the oldest trick in the spamming book) or the URLs of other blogs that don’t clean up spam comments (a technique that [...]
One of my goals is to release a message in a bottle that is found at least 1,000 miles from its place of release. Today, I released a stoppered glass salsa bottle that I prepared from home in California and that I had taken with me to Maui, Hawaii. From Quicksilver, the boat we took [...]
The unannounced server migration that I started on Monday has not gone as smoothly as I would have liked, but I didn’t really expect it to.
Why the move? Twenty times the storage, five times the bandwidth, less than half the cost. I’ll save myself about $1,000 a year.
So far, the biggest problem has been migrating [...]
I noticed two odd refunds on my Citibank credit card bills last month — both from Schwartz Settlement Refund in the amounts of $1.97 and $6.85. Of course, so did hundreds of other bloggers around the web, most with refunds in the range of $0.03 to $0.73. I paused a while on the hunt for [...]
