Archive for “September, 2007”

On this page the following entries were made in the “September, 2007” time-frame.


Booky Meme

Posted Sep 25th, 2007 by Rich

Over on The Pickards Jack tagged me with this meme:
just to hopefully give him the opportunity to demonstrate that some of his hobbies/interests are different to mine. The pressures on

Which may be difficult because his choices actually include some I may have chosen. So I’ll avoid one of them, but will mention David Eddings, and [...]

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Writing a Wordpress plugin part 2

Posted Sep 24th, 2007 by Rich

When reading through the documentation of Wordpress take one pinch of salt.
Because not everything they actually say can be done, can actually be done. Plus of course you have to try and work out all the undocumented functions as well.

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Writing a Wordpress plugin

Posted Sep 22nd, 2007 by Rich

A while ago I was asked if I could write a shopping cart. I had already started one a few years ago, but never finished it. So I began to go through the scripts and tidy them up ready for use. But part way through I discovered that what was really needed was something to [...]

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Wordpress, bad behaviour and paypal

Posted Sep 18th, 2007 by Rich

While coding a paypal shopping cart for Wordpress, especially one that utilises Instant Payment Notification (IPN), be wary if using plugins that restrict access to Wordpress based on IP address. Bad Behaviour is one such plugin, and if you don’t add the necessary IP address to its whitelist things just will not work.
So the Go [...]

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