I have long wanted to be able to remove some of the meta-boxes in the WordPress post/page screens. To declutter a bit. Oddly enough there is no plugin available to do this. So I have written one and you can find it here: Remove Admin Meta Boxes. Comments and bug reports in this thread please. One […]
New plugin in the pipeline to enable direct DB manipulation in WP for SQLite databases.
I use WP as a framework for CMS applications. i have long wanted to be able to remove some of the more obscure meta boxes from the post/page admin screens, for certain installations. Prompted by an immediate need, I came up with the following. Currently there is no admin screen, the user will have to […]
after nearly a year of absence i have updated PDO for WordPress to function with WP 2.7.1. In the same breath i have also changed many of the regex calls in the sqlite driver to use sqlite UDF’s (user defined functions) instead. there should be a measurable performance gain over previous versions. the latest version […]
the service came back this morning. At around 10h00.
Then, almost to the second (and perhaps actually to the second) the service has gone back down once more.
i have only my feet and my wallet to vote with …
not content with four days’ downtime in the last 10 days, 1&1 have let their exchange servers come crashing to the ground once again. Since 11am this morning inbound and outbound mail has been frozen. Needless to say the status pages remain reading that all systems are functional. I stayed on the line for more […]
yesterday 1&1′s exchange servers went down again, but only for mobile sync. as always, there is no alerting and there is no time to fix provided. When put to the question Customer Service confirmed that it could take a year or more to fix. They had no idea. But they did know that the issue […]
I use a number of client widgets that use realplayer to access the BBC’s streams. RP is buggy as hell on Leopard and i often suffer cutouts and drops when navigating back to the dashboard for various reasons.
There is no solution (possibly one can uninstall RP and reinstall the old version of RP10 – if you can find it. this has helped some people).
I have a workaround though …
i’ve only just noticed that namespaces were introduced with php 5.3.0. Here’s a brief update on them.
I find I get a lot of questions about sessions in php. There is nothing at all that is complex about sessions, and it’s a mystery to me why they are somewhat mystical to others!
So here’s a very brief tutorial on them.