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SSL all the things 7 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Security is important and one of the things I would like to see is if we can enforce a requirement for all requests that core makes back to WordPress.org for updates and information to be https. This ...
Blog rebuilding … 27 May 2013 | 10:52 pm
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here and I feel like today is the special day when I should start trying to rebuild this blog, adding more content and giving it a lick of new paint. So I’ve sw...
Tracing things back to where they came from 29 Jan 2012 | 02:14 am
One of the things I find myself doing a lot when developing WordPress is debugging things and so I spend a lot of time thinking of ways I can make this easier for me and easier for everyone else. Over...
2011 in review 6 Jan 2012 | 01:08 am
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,00...
Introducing Debug Bar 5 Jan 2011 | 11:35 pm
One of the features being introduced in the upcoming WordPress 3.1 release is the new Admin Bar. This is designed to make it easier to get access to the more common administration area tools from the...
2010 in review 3 Jan 2011 | 11:38 pm
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers Abou...
“Patches Welcome” 25 Jul 2010 | 09:10 pm
Occasionally you may have seen or heard myself or one of the other members of the core WordPress team saying “Patches Welcome” and wondered what this was all about. Basically we are just trying to em...
WordCamp UK 2010 Presentation – Core Plugins 18 Jul 2010 | 02:27 am
This morning I did a short presentation on core plugins at WordCamp UK. It ended up quite short with a long Q&A session with great feedback from the audience. Here are the sides:
Introducing menu_page_url() 11 Jun 2010 | 09:50 am
We’ve just added a new api into WordPress 3.0 to make plugin writing that bit easier – #13829 It is now really easy to get the url for a plugin page that you have registered to make it easy to link b...
Themes and WordPress 3.0 some important changes 3 May 2010 | 10:55 pm
During the development of WordPress 3.0 we have made a number of changes under the hood which will be of interest to the developers and users of themes. Some of these changes are about making themes ...
