Tag Archives: plugin

One plugin inspires another

Posted on by
1

You gotta love the GPL.

All of the code I release is done so under the GPLv3 license, including my WordPress plugins. Because of this, my K2 Hook Up plugin inspired a very similar plugin for the premium theme, Thesis. This is why I love open source. I’m free to copy and paste and tinker and hack. So when I’m fortunate to offer up my own code for others to use, its a great feeling to have it in turn inspire another’s tinkering.

But its an even better feeling to receive a very nice complement on your contributions:

I’m very grateful for your plugin, Eric! Seems like whenever I try to do admin panel stuff, it’s so complex, leading to surrender on my part. Your plugin was very well written — elegant in its simplicity, as they say — and helped me learn some stuff! – Rick Beckman

Its interactions like this that really do make it all worthwhile.

Flare Smith reaches new milestone

Posted on by
Reply

My Flare Smith Plugin, reached a new milestone today: v0.17. This version fleshes out the functionality to support new school AdSense enabled feeds, but also supports the popular My Brand feature which allows you to mask feeds.feedburner.com URLs with your own domain name. Version 0.17 also sports a shiny new options page that should be a little easier to use, especially now that there are 3 distinct settings that must be manipulated, depending on your needs, to get Flare Smith up and running.

There is one caveat though. The AdSense enabled feed support is a little wonky, but of no fault of my own.

Continue reading →

Another Useful WordPress Security Plugin

Posted on by
Reply

WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.1 has been released, in response to a comment on a recent thread about old versions of WordPress sites being hacked. You may have spotted this in your WordPress dashboard. Problem is, it only works for v2.5.1+, so it will only be useful in keeping you safe going forward. I just installed it on a basic WordPress site with K2, and got the following results:

Suspect Plugins
These plugin files look suspect. Please verify they are files you uploaded.

  1. ../themes/k2/app/includes/k2-sbm-loader.php

No suspicious posts or comments found

Hooray! No suspicious text found in your posts or comments tables!

For a brand new plugin that’s not bad, but throwing a false negative on such a popular theme is something that will need to be addressed. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.