In a way, WordPress is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s ease of use and popularity make it a great choice when starting a blog and building a web site. But this same popularity means that it is a huge target for hacking. For this reason alone, security should be taken seriously. If …
This morning, I participated in Jason Tucker‘s WPWatercooler podcast program. The topic of discussion was e-commerce plugins for WordPress. I’ve worked with several shopping carts for WordPress. These are all complicated plugins, just due to the fact that shopping carts are not easy. They require a large amount of code just to make the products …
From time to time, I have the need to create the contents for a virtual page — that is, a page that is not stored in the database. This sort of thing is easy using a framework like CodeIgniter, but WordPress’s thing is displaying content from your database and not virtual content that is created …