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Category Archives: General
Coining the term FOSC
Roughly 10 years ago, it was the blog bluerobot.com that first used the term Flash Of Unstyled Content (FOUC). This described the appearance of a website before the loading of an external stylesheet. Now that we’ve overcome most of the common causes for the FOUC a much bigger threat has dawned on the horizon. Enter the FOSC →
Looking for Mollie gateway users
Ever since I developed my plugin LDB WP e-Commerce iDeal plugin, which brings support for iDeal transactions to WP e-Commerce, I’ve been getting requests to develop a plugin for WP e-Commerce that supports the Dutch payment gateway Mollie. To do this I need your help
WordPress needs plugin dependencies
Something every WordPress developer has wished for, sometime during the development of one of their plugins, is plugin dependencies. Dependencies in the sense of other plugins that provide extra or base functionality for the to be installed plugin. This is something every Linux but also Drupal developer has some experience with. Continue reading
WordPress Plugin : WP Plugin Security Check
An up-to-date WordPress installation is as safe as it can be, plugins however can often pose a security risk because they’re not maintained by hundreds of contributors. A plugin is as secure as the security knowledge of the developer allows it to be. In some cases this creates loopholes for exploits. WP Plugin Security Check checks plugins for bad practices and possible security holes limiting the risk of a compromised WordPress installation to a ‘hate to say I told you so’. Continue reading