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Hacking WordPress

I didn’t think I’d be hacking WordPress as much as in the past 🙂

I upgraded my sisters blog to WordPress 2.5.1 and ran into two issues that required hacking:

– user password reset is broken

Here’s the issue http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172820 and here is the temporary fix: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842

– header injection problem when using wp_redirect with enumerated PHP code in pages

Here’s my fix: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179091

Another useful evening looking at PHP..

Blog tidy up

I manage and host my sisters Cub Scout pack website.

Today was tidy up time during lunch; sadly the site hasn’t been updated in a long time – it was running an old, old version of WordPress, Gallery 2 and lots of pre-release plugins.

I am in the process of replacing all of my hand-crafted PHP hacks with plugins; some are off the shelf; others I am hacking (converting my direct hacks into plugins).

I really like the BM Custom Login plugin from Ben Gillbanks – he’s the same guy that made the Regulus theme.

Music for the commute

I’m testing out the Microsoft Connector bus for my commute – I figure an hour of listening to podcasts, audiobooks or music combined with blogging and email could be more productive, less costly – and certainly greener – than driving.

Music for the commute today:

Ting Tings, Goldfrapp, T-Rex, Noah and the Whale, British Sea Power.