Days of My Life

Like I mentioned before, there was a patch that counted words as you typed which broke in WordPress 2.5.  Thanks to Matt and azaozz, however, there’s a new & improved patch available here! 

If you want your WordPress to display the number of words as you type, see this. There are some delays, but it’s better than nothing.

I’ve been looking for this since Wednesday… who would’ve thought it’s in their bug track system!?

UPDATE: This does not work in 2.5. Please vote here if you want an extension developed. It now works in 2.5 and will be included from 2.5.1!

According to this post, someone using an older version of WordPress got hacked.  The hacker used a brute-force technique to reveal the password to private posts of that blog.  Fortunately, the upcoming new version will come with a stronger security; in the meantime, go and read that post by Donncha as he offers some great security information and tips.  And if you are using an older version, remember to upgrade to the latest version which is 2.3.1.

Call me impatient (I take after the ol’ man which is a bad trait), but since no one was interested in hosting it or even its data, I just deleted it from the server. I was very close to exceeding the space limit which was another reason for the decision. However, I haven’t deleted the database yet, so if you are interested, let me know and I’ll e-mail it to you. I will, however, delete all the user information. I will also delete this database in January, 2008, as announced earlier.

Oh, and I’ve also deleted all my hacks for b2.

I’ve searched high and low for an extension which displays a link that deletes this cookie, but nothing turned up. So I simply modified “wp_pass.php” a little and wrote a small function.

First, create a file named “wp_passexpire.php” with the following:

<?php
require( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-config.php’);

// Expire
setcookie(’wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH, ”, time() - 864000, COOKIEPATH);

wp_cache_delete($blog_id);

wp_safe_redirect(wp_get_referer());
?>

Continue reading ‘Simple WordPress Hack: Delete “wp_postpass” Cookie’ »

As I wrote on here, I think tags should search for similar terms in posts like how I hacked b2 to do instead of searching for matching tags; this way, we don’t have to concern ourselves of adding relevant tags — especially if your previous system didn’t support tags. In my opinion, this would be better for search engines, too.

Vote on that page please.

“The end is in sight for the 7-year-old but still popular version 4 of PHP, open-source software that lets servers create customized Web pages such as online catalog pages or a list of search results.” — [[link removed]]

I guess I’d get ready to migrate to WordPress in about a year and study up on object-oriented programming as soon as I can. There goes all my hacks of b2… oh, well. So, if you’re a b2 user, you’d prepare yourself. And FYI, my b2 board will be closed when I do migrate.

I attended the NikeGO Special Olympics event as a presenter with my boss today. I haven’t seen a place so packed with people for a while now, and it was awfully noisy that by the end, my voice was a little hoarse. For the very time in my life, I was a salesman promoting the organization that I work for to end-users. It was fun to a degree, but would I volunteer to go again? A big NO! Continue reading ‘NikeGO’ »

My ol’ man has decided to sell our dog, because, I believe, he can’t control the dog like he does his bird. As I said before, he’s a control freak. Continue reading ‘Goodbye, Dori — NOT!’ »

I’ve updated my contact form script to handle MIME types a little better, which in turn avoids getting filtered by SpamAssassin (now scores < -0.5), and to generate random numbers on an image for validation purposes, among many other minor tweaks. So if you’re using a previous revision, I’d recommend for you to upgrade.