Archive for February, 2008

ModSecurity, WordPress Admin and “Method Not Implemented”

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I battled this one for a little bit and I hope the information here helps someone. First and foremost, there are various version of this problem and they might have different causes stemming from the same source. I list them here in no particular order. I found all the topics starting with a search for the dreaded “Method Not Implemented” 501 error code from the admin panel of WordPress. POST to /test/wp-admin/index-extra.php not supported: This error is also noticed on post.php and theme-editor.php. Now there are various WordPress Forum posts providing somewhat workable solutions to the problem. I tried some of the solutions but either they did not work for me (I had not looked that closely at the error before trying them) or they were too broad and I did not care for the results. There is some finger pointing in both the forums and the various other pages […]

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WordPress Lingo

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February 11th, 2008
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WordPress, WordPress Tips

Whether you’re brand new to WordPress or have been around the neighborhood for a few months chances are, you have heard at least one or more of the following terms without knowing their definition. As with any sub-culture, WordPress has developed its own lingo of sorts. This post will dive into some of the common words associated with WordPress and by the end of this article, you’ll be able to follow a conversation in the WordPress.org IRC channel with ease! Codex – The WordPress.org Codex is like a portal containing all sorts of information related to the open source project. The Codex is maintained by volunteer document writers who are part of the WP.org community. When you have a problem or question with WordPress.org, the codex is the first place you should look for an answer. Parameter – Parameters are often mentioned when discussing plugin or theme development topics. Think […]

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Adding Your Plugin to WP Extend Plugins With a Mac

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February 9th, 2008
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HOW-TO, WordPress FAQs, WordPress Plugins

A while back I wrote about listing your plugin to the official WordPress plugins directory. The tutorial was for windows and I have been on the look-out for a Mac version. Since I have been unable to find one, I will present to you a step-by-step tutorial on how to add and modify your WordPress Plugin using a Mac. To begin this tutorial, I first have to make some assumptions. My Assumptions Your plugin has already been approved over at WP Extend Plugins. You are running at least OSX Tiger You have WordPress locally installed. If not, please read Jeff’s tutorial on installing WordPress locally. You already have Subversion installed. If not, here’s a good tutorial on installing Subversion on a Mac. If you have Leopard, Subversion is already installed. You have downloaded and installed svnX. svnX has a nice GUI for those who don’t like to use Terminal commands. […]

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New Translation Of WordPress

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February 8th, 2008
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WordPress

There is some great news today for those that live in or around Kazakhstan and use WordPress. WordPress.org software, which has already been translated into a number of different languages, can lay claim to having a Kazakh translated version. Kazakh is the native language of Kazakhstan. According to a press release, the number of Kazakh bloggers has grown considerably, mostly due in part to a Google Group that was created which explained how the software works. Up to this point, WordPress has been translated into 57 different languages (not counting the OTHERS category). This would make number 58. To see all of the various translations that have occurred thus far, check out the Codex Article labeled, WordPress In Your Language

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Extending WordPress Beyond the Blog

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February 7th, 2008
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brainstorming, Business of Blogging, WordPress

Extending WordPress Beyond the Blog: A good article on extending WordPress beyond “just a blog” with examples and a developer’s trials and tribulations along the way. Custom Fields in WordPress are the bomb. I have worked extensively with this feature set and used it to my advantage many times. WordPress Jobs makes use of the custom fields to store and produce the job listings. Our recent post on WordPress as a contact manager also uses Custom Fields. Heck there was a Contest at one point that awarded prizes to the best new use of WordPress’ Custom Fields. Along those lines, Andrew asks a question at the end of the linked article that caught my fancy and I wanted to ask our readers the same question. We might find some new uses for old code and spark new ideas. Which are your favorite non-traditional sites that use WordPress as their publishing […]

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2 Plugin Security Bulletins

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February 7th, 2008
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WordPress Plugins, WordPress Security

NBBN has discovered some cross site scripting vulnerabilities for the WP-Footnotes plugin version 2.2 for WordPress. Input passed to the “pre_footnotes”, “priority”, “post_footnotes”, and “style_rules” array elements in the “wp_footnotes_current_settings[]” array in the admin_panel.php script is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site. The good news this time around is that, ‘register_globals‘ must be turned on for exploitation to occur. If you are using this plugin on your site, it is advised that you disable the plugin until a security patch has been released. According to the security bulletin, the solution is to edit the plugin source code to ensure that input is properly sanitized. Again, if you know that your webserver has register_globals turned off, you are in the clear. S@BUN has reported an “id” […]

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WordPress as a Contact Manager

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WP Contact Manager: The versatility of WordPress continues to amaze me. Design Canopy has released a theme/set of instructions for WordPress that would allow you to run a WordPress install as a taggable, searchable contact manager that can be made into a Members Only system and display related contacts. Now mind you, it is not a stand alone theme, needs extra plugins to be downloaded and installed and they outline detailed instructions on how to set it up. However, the setup looks relatively easy and the results are definitely pretty cool. I would have liked to see a Prologue like custom posting interface for logged in users but that could be an easy add on or plugin once the thing is set up.

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Utterz: Post from anywhere

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February 4th, 2008
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Blogging News, Cool Scripts

Utterz: is a Web-based service that posts to all of the above, from anywhere, even by phone, whether it’s text, photos, video, voice, or a mash-up of all the above. Same with PCs. You can just e-mail or SMS the posts to Utterz, or make a phone call to leave a voice record. After the content is received, it’s forwarded to the blog or blogs you specify in about 10 minutes. This online tools brings us one step closer to having a personal Twitter. If you setup your own WordPress blog (hosted or on WordPress.com) and use the Prologue theme (new zipped release by popular request, thanks Joseph Scott), you can have many of the flexible posting features of Twitter on your own platform. Since Utterz is a remotely hosted service, I am not sure the benefit of a “personal” Twitter are realized quite as well, but it is definitely […]

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Trackbacks: Still Useful?

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February 2nd, 2008
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Blogging

Six Apart created the Trackback specification as a way to enable bloggers to communicate between each other via a link or acknowledgement. My question to the reader: in what ways do you use Trackbacks? Do you still find Trackbacks useful? With the growing Trackback spam, how do you keep up with legitimate bloggers?

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