Hi!
I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.
I’m currently looking for my next adventure, if I might be able to help you then please get in touch.
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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…
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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.…
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Escaping lists of strings for SQL in WordPress
Today I found myself wanting to use a query similar to SELECT DISTINCT post_id FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE meta_key IN ( ‘string_x’, ‘string_y’, ‘string_z’ ), but where I needed to construct the values for the list of strings from an array…
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Dragging, dropping and sorting, with jQuery UI
I spy a nice opportunity to document some jQuery UI functionality I’ve been playing with this afternoon, for a soon-to-be-revealed client project. The project needs photo galleries, and as these need to be tied into the other custom post types…
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