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Category: Development

  • WordPress and Update Signing

    WordPress and Update Signing

    So, you’ve created open source software to make it easier to provide update signing. It requires auditing but  you ask WordPress to implement it with their system but, for now, they decline, simply because it’s not something immediately planned. However, Matt Mullenwegg agreed to donate towards getting the audit done.

    What would you do the next day?

    I’m guessing it wouldn’t involve posting a massive rant about WordPress, but specifically aimed at Matt, about how much WordPress doesn’t care about security, even to the point of trying to make popular a hashtag of #StopMullware? Well, that’s just what Scott Arciszewski did, via Medium.

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  • I’ve moved. Again.

    I’ve moved. Again.

    Only a few weeks ago I moved the site domain and now the hosting has moved too. Tsohost, a UK hosting company, has great support and is excellent value for money. But you get what you paid for and I’ve remained frustrated at speed problems with my site.

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  • Resetting WordPress Two-Factor Settings

    Resetting WordPress Two-Factor Settings

    The Two Factor plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites is an excellent way of improving the security of your site. There were plans to move this into Core last year but this hasn’t happened – to be honest, I suspect it may be due to how unfinished it currently is, in particular it’s not very user-friendly.

    One such “unfriendly” feature is that once you set up a third party authenticator app (which you do via a QR code) there’s no option to do it again – switch phones or apps and there’s no way to set this back up again.

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  • My Year in WordPress

    My Year in WordPress

    My Year in WordPress – learn more about how I contributed to WordPress in 2016!

  • How to change the front size in a Jetpack Contact Form

    How to change the front size in a Jetpack Contact Form

    For the theme I’m currently using, the field descriptions on the Jetpack contact form appear really, really small.

    After some fiddling (and Googling, which although yielded answers, I didn’t find any that worked) I found a solution.

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