Generating a Valid RSS Feed From Scratch in Stdlib Python
Generating a Valid RSS Feed From Scratch in Stdlib Python Every static site generator ships a feed plugin. Until yours…
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Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
Dozens of plug-ins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was…
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
Last week, I wrote about catching a supply chain attack on a WordPress plugin called Widget Logic. A trusted name,…
How I Built a Random Post Feed in WordPress Without Using RSS
When I started working on my website, theidioms.com, I wanted visitors to discover different content every time they visited. The…
How I Built a Random Post Feed in WordPress Without Using RSS
When I started working on my website, theidioms.com, I wanted visitors to discover different content every time they visited. The…
How I Built a Random Post Feed in WordPress Without Using RSS
When I started working on my website, theidioms.com, I wanted visitors to discover different content every time they visited. The…
How I Built a Random Post Feed in WordPress Without Using RSS
When I started working on my website, theidioms.com, I wanted visitors to discover different content every time they visited. The…
EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security2026-04-01Matt “TK” TaylorMatt Kane11 min readThe cost of building…
Your Personal Blog Should Have Comments
Your Personal Blog Should Have Comments I will say something not popular. Your blog should have comments. Yes, even in…
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API
One of the (many) depressing things about the “AI” future in which we’re living, is that it exposes just how…
Legal win
Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization,…
Three years of building no-code software for grassroots political organizations
Three years of building no-code software for grassroots political organizationsAugust 31, 2025What is no-code? No-code is primarily a type of…
WooCommerce Multilingual translated variations’ quantity out of sync fix
This PHP script may help if WooCommerce Multilingual product variation quantities are getting out of sync. Basically what it does…
Add custom fields under wp general settings
To add custom fields under wordpress general settings without hacking core code use this as example. Of course you can…
WordPress custom menu display
Just a small example of how to build custom menu output in WordPress. $menu_args = array(‘menu’ => ‘Main menu’, ‘echo’…
WordPress update without ftp
To use wordpress update and install plugins without ftp add following line to wp-config.php. define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); Read more about proper…
Disable wordpress core updates display
Ever had a situation where you have given admin right to the client? What usally happens is that client will…
MailChimp List Subscribe Form
MailChimp List Subscribe Form plugin for WordPress. Can be found https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp/
Plugin GeoMashup
GeoMashup plugin usage in WordPress template files. <?php echo GeoMashup::map(); ?>
XHTML SEO friendly sample header
Standard solution for developing WordPress header. SEO friendly and can be copied every time new template is created. <!DOCTYPE html…