BurningbirdWordform is a project to create a new weblogging tool that incorporates some ideas I’ve had for a tool for a couple of years now. It’s based on WordPress, an open source, GPL PHP/MySQL application; inheriting some functionality, while extending the product in new directions. This site serves as the test site for Wordform development, as […]
The first changes being made to the initial snapshot of the WordPress 1.3a code is to incorporate the ‘floating cloud’ design currently being used at Burningbird into a 1.3 theme. While I’m at it, I’m also moving the default pages down into the themes directory, to minimize the number of files at the root directory […]
A vulnerability was discovered with WordPress 1.2.1 and 1.3a, as detailed here and in a forum thread for WordPress, here. This was caused by the fact that an important system variable, siteurl is modified in wp-login.php if the application detects that the URI used to access wp-login.php has changed from what’s stored in the database. As detailed in both of […]
Just a quick note to say that the Kitchen is still open for those who would like to post at the site. I did close it down at one point when the security problem happened a week ago, but it’s still open for writing and comments. Currently, I’m editing Frank Paynter’s long posting on Why do we Blog — […]
Cold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for WordPress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in the edit window. But will we have as much fun without our […]