Author: simonwheatley
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A quick custom plugin to import redirections into Safe Redirect Manager
At Code for the People we’ve just imported a load of blogposts from Drupal into WordPress. One of the differences is that Drupal encodes fancy characters, like typographically nice “quote marks”, into the URL whereas WordPress mostly drops them. We ended up with about 80 URLs which had changed and the need for a redirections…
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Alfred extension: Convert clipboard to plain text
Update: Well, what do you I know? It turns out that Andrew, developer of Alfred, has already got this covered and my weak Google-Fu didn’t turn it up: plain text paste in Alfred. So don’t use my version, use his. I got tired of copying formatted text from a web page, pasting into a text…
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SVN checkout with no externals
I use Subversion externals extensively for my projects, and occasionally it’s useful or quicker to check something out without including all the externals; here’s the commandline incantation to do that:
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Clickable stack traces with Netbeans
I’m clearly in a fickle mood this month, as I’ve changed my PHP editor again, this time to Netbeans (thanks to the tireless nagging of @JJJ)… so far, so good. I particularly love being able to jump to declarations quickly and easily. One hurdle I overcame today, and I’d be interested to know if there’s…
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Bees!
My grandpa always wanted to keep bees. Or at least that’s how I remember it, him talking about it and me fascinated by the idea. For some reason the urge has resurfaced recently, and as luck would have it the local NamBeePamBee Beekeepers in nearby Scott’s Avenue Allotments have begun holding open days and now…
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Clickable stack traces with PHP Xdebug and Sublime Text (other editors/IDEs are available)
Have a look at this. Ugly, isn’t it? But so so useful.
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Filtering HTML to exclude all but a small number of HTML elements and attributes
How much do we trust user input? Not. At. All. That’s how much we trust user input. You just don’t know where they’ve been! WordPress has such a plethora of functions for escaping and filtering input and output, that I’m always discovering new possibilities. One I found recently is wp_kses, which allows you to strip…
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Extending WP Help to users who can’t edit_posts
Yesterday I was explaining how I created a user role to edit a particular post type and only that post type. Today I want to show how you can use Mark Jaquith‘s excellent WP Help plugin to support these users. The issue I wanted to solve is that a freshly installed copy of WP Help…