I have been trying, for some time, to find a published API from a reputable source to retrieve currency pairs for a given date. i have found some that are chargeable, but none that are freeware. yahoo’s finance site is the closest that I can find. i don’t know whether they object to the kind [...]
following yesterday’s post I have found severe issues with WP’s plugin handling. A bunch of plugins are failing with the error: Invalid Header File. This is despite the fact that the header files are valid. Once a plugin has failed it is also disappearing from the plugin list. Not just the active list, but the [...]
I upgraded to version 2.8.0 beta a little while ago. Quite apprehensively, if truth be told. But all went smoothly. I have now just used the automatic upgrade to the release version of 2.8.0. A few seconds and ’tis done. Damn impressive.
WP Core Devs made a design choice a while ago to impose an arbitrary 10px ‘padding’ on the div that holds images and their captions. This plugin fixes that and the code for the plugin is here (as well as hosted on wp.org) <?php /** * @package FixImageMargins * @author Justin Adie * @version 0.1.0 [...]
I have long wanted to be able to remove some of the meta-boxes in the WordPress post/page screens. To declutter a bit. Oddly enough there is no plugin available to do this. So I have written one and you can find it here: Remove Admin Meta Boxes. Comments and bug reports in this thread please. One [...]
in a recent project i have been finding the need to address the database directly (to hack some plugins). There are plugins available to do this for mysql (enabling PHPMyAdmin). There is a similar application for sqlite called SQLiteMyAdmin. But personally I hate it. So I am adapting my CRUD application to use PDO and [...]
I use WP as a framework for CMS applications. i have long wanted to be able to remove some of the more obscure meta boxes from the post/page admin screens, for certain installations. Prompted by an immediate need, I came up with the following. Currently there is no admin screen, the user will have to [...]
after nearly a year of absence i have updated PDO for WordPress to function with WP 2.7.1. In the same breath i have also changed many of the regex calls in the sqlite driver to use sqlite UDF’s (user defined functions) instead. there should be a measurable performance gain over previous versions. the latest version [...]
the service came back this morning. At around 10h00. Then, almost to the second (and perhaps actually to the second) the service has gone back down once more. i have only my feet and my wallet to vote with …
not content with four days’ downtime in the last 10 days, 1&1 have let their exchange servers come crashing to the ground once again. Since 11am this morning inbound and outbound mail has been frozen. Needless to say the status pages remain reading that all systems are functional. I stayed on the line for more [...]