How To Setup Multiple IPN Receivers in PayPal
Of course there’s the whole notify_url charade and counterparts for all of PayPal’s APIs, but, unfortunately, there are cases when you simply can’t get to set those:
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The WordPress Meta “generator” Tag Paranoia
The WordPress Meta “generator” Tag Paranoia …or “WordPress Version Fingerprinting” I have read dozens of “How to secure your WordPress” articles, and one common “tip” among others is getting rid of the “generator” tag in the HTML head, for additional security through obscurity. WordPress uses the meta “generator” tag to “disclose” its version. The paranoia surrounding …
Another 7 Overlooked WordPress Helper Functions In a previous post we looked at 7 Overlooked WordPress Helper Functions. Today I’ll dig deep and find more helpful undocumented functions that WordPress uses internally that can be of help when developing plugins and themes. Leveraging code that is already available in the core, is maintained and simply works …
ack-grep vs. grep Following Daniel Bachhuber – The Zen of WordPress Development talk, I’ve started to explore this magical ack tool, a replacement for the native grep. ack can be downloaded from the official and quite modest website called BetterThanGrep.com. ack is also available in all sorts of software repositories, and can be named ack-grep instead …
Cache Buckets And Filter Strategies
Cookies and request parameters are a full page cache’s worst enemies. Merely installing a new marketing plugin can drop your cache hit rate down to 0% if you’re not careful. We’ve seen this happen all to often, and many times site owners are not sure what to do.
Case Study: Elegant Themes Core Race Conditions
In one of our earlier case studies we looked a random 502 Bad Gateway error that happened because a remote endpoint was not responding. That was pretty easy. Ready for something more interesting?
WordPress trunk news #10 With most of the work concentrated on getting WordPress 3.4 out on schedule, with 172 active tickets (1 more than last week), a lot of testing and fixes, WordPress 3.4 beta 2 has been announced. Here’s an overview of the 3.4 release workflow. This week in WordPress trunk… …nothing of utmost interest …
WordPress DoSnet
Pingbacks have been part of the WordPress since the very beginning. One of my previous articles, titled WordPress Pingback Attacks explores two types of denial-of-service attacks that leverage Pingback request processing in WordPress. If you do not know how Pingbacks work, I suggest taking a quick crash-course here.
WordPress trunk news #12
At the time of writing, the WordPress 3.4 roadmap is at closed: 396 active: 92 total: 488 tickets, which is around 81% completed. Many XML-RPC privileges-type bugs fixed, we’ll probably be seeing more considering the terrific amount of new features in the XML-RPC server.