It seems that some themes that I’d used as the bases for my own themes on my WordPress installs (other than this one) didn’t have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer.php file, like they should, I guess, since that seems to be what the WordPress.com stats plugin needs to register hits. I had been wondering [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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Also tagged: footer.php, plugin, stats plugin, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress plugin, wordpress.com stats, wordpress.com stats plugin, wp, wp plugin, wp stats, wp_footer
I’ve gotten into the habit of actually reading the various blogs to which there are links on my WordPress dashboard and I saw this today from boren.nu: To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable [...]
I not only wanted to integrate my own other things into my WordPress-based site, but I wanted forums, too, so of course I thought of bbPress. It seems to integrate well with WordPress, but then suddenly strange things started happening with login and logout. For instance, when I logged in with bbPress, I couldn’t get [...]
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Posted 20 April 2008
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Also tagged: authentication, bbpress, cookie, cookie domain, cookies, domain, integration, login, user, user authentication, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress login, wp
After implementing other pages that used WordPress to authenticate users and deal with access control, I went to move these pages off to a subdomain, and suddenly found that auth_redirect wasn’t quite working right. When auth_redirect is called and doesn’t find a logged-in user, it redirects to login and passes the URI of the current [...]
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Posted 16 April 2008
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Also tagged: 2.5, authentication, auth_redirect, filter, filter hook, login, php, pluggable, plugin, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wp, wp plugin, wp_redirect, wp_safe_redirect
Plenty of people seem to have written a lot about how to make WordPress use some other program’s user authentication mechanism, but there seems to be fairly little on how to get at WordPress’s user authentication from some other program. Fortunately, I found this article, and got what I wanted. It’s a fairly straight-forward process. [...]
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Posted 12 April 2008
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Having noticed what seemed like it might be an urgent-ish security-related post show up in the mass of post links at the bottom of my WordPress dashboard, then following some links: There seems to be two kinds of hackery going on, just like I’ve described: 1. Inserting “invisible” HTML full of links (for NSFW sites) [...]