There seems to be a bug in the WordPress iOS app.
When I type out a sentence, quite often I’m unable to move the cursor past the very last character in that sentence.
An additional downside is that I can’t replicate the bug consistently.
Category: WordPress
WordPress security theory
So I have a theory I’d love someone to test for me. I get a lot of brute force attacks on some of my sites and it’s all scripted I’m sure.
If one were to put a check box on the login screen – or a captcha. Wouldn’t that be as effective for blocking scripted brute force attacks as some of the other methods like two-step authentication.
I realize two-step is far more secure than captcha – but I would think a captcha would at least block scripts from trying to login.
WordPress for iOS wish list
Something I’d love to see the WordPress iOS app do…
Allow uploading full size versions of a photo but only display the chosen size.
As it is I either upload and display a photo in the original size or as a smaller version.
What would you like to see improved?
Contact Form 7 not loading properly
Heads up! If you’re using WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin and Jetpack – the recent updates to JetPack may have messed up your contact forms.
I noticed this when I started seeing contact form submissions addressed to only me – and not me and the client.
Apparently the latest upgrade to the Jetpack plugin adds a new contact form feature to its already growing list of features. But in doing so, Jetpack is using the same shortcode contact-form as the Contact Form 7 shortcode.
So, needless to say, you may be run into some problems if you’ve haven’t already.
The fix is super easy (but a bit of an annoyance).
The fix
Be sure you have the latest version of Contact Form 7 and then simply go to your Contact Form 7 admin pages and copy the new shortcodes for each of your contact forms and paste them into your pages like before.
The new shortcodes should start with “contact-form-7”
Of course if you’re not that picky – you can just disable the Contact Form 7 plugin and stick with the new Jetpack version… but know that you’ll lose any of your customizations you may have previously made.
One of the nice things about the Jetpack plugin is the ability to create forms directly within your posts and page edit screens. There’s no need to edit the form and then copy and paste the shortcode into the chosen post. Also, the forms will be checked with Akismet’s spam filter so you’ll have an automatic spam filter built in.
Now that you know – will you continue using Contact Form 7 or make the switch to Jetpack’s contact form?
Update your WordPress copyright date automatically
Three months into the new year and I’m still coming across several websites that I manage that are still showing a copyright for last year.
DOH!
It’s easy to forget as the calendar rolls over to update all your copyright (or Creative Commons) tags on your websites, so why not automate it?
Simply replace the latest year (i.e. © 2005-2010 Jonathan D. Blundell) with this simple code:
<?php echo date('Y'); ?>
So you’re resulting copyright line will look like this:
© 2005-<?php echo date('Y'); ?> Jonathan D. Blundell
And every year, your copyright statement will update with the current year.
Easy peasy!
Now I just need to go update this in all my footers… DOH!
Add a share on Pinboard.in link to your WordPress blog
If you’re making the move from del.icio.us to Pinboard.in you may be encouraging your blog readers to do the same (and I definitely encourage you to make the switch if you haven’t already).
And if that’s the case, why not add a “share this” link on your WordPress posts?
Since Pinboard.in is modeled after the first version of del.icio.us API, the share this link is fairly similar to del.icio.us.
To add a link for Pinboard.in, simply add this code to your single.php file in your WordPress theme:
<a href="http://pinboard.in/add?showtags=yes&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&description=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>" title="Bookmark this on Pinboard.in" target="_blank">Bookmark this on Pinboard.in</a>
If you want, you can always replace the text “Bookmark this on Pinboard.in” with a graphic or other text, like I’ve done below.
And of course, if you like this post, be sure and Bookmark it on Pinboard 🙂