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Debug Bar Action Hooks

ampt — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:09:56 +0000

Debug Bar Action Hooks is a new plugin for WordPress I’ve just released. It displays a list of actions that have fired for the current request. It requires the Debug Bar plugin.

I hope you will find it useful while developing your next WordPress site. For more details checkout the plugin page.

Mute Screamer 1.0.6

ampt — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:36:05 +0000

Mute Screamer 1.0.6 has been released. This updated fixes a minor bug with the update hashes. They seem to be out of date on the PHPIDS website, so I’ve rolled my own solution for now.

This should fix the problem some users were having problems with the updater asking users to update when the files were the same.

pea.rs

ampt — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:40:35 +0000

pea.rs is a great idea from Simplebits that helps you collect and test common patterns of markup and style.

Mute Screamer 1.0.4

ampt — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:03:32 +0000

Mute Screamer 1.0.4 is out. This release brings some minor improvements and WordPress 3.3 compatibility and also some minor bug fixes. For full details checkout the changelog.

Multiple PHP versions

ampt — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:18:19 +0000

Derick Rethans has a nice write up on installing multiple PHP versions for developing, testing and for supporting different configuration needs.

Also on this topic you may want to checkout phpfarm developed by Christian Weiske.

Handy redirect for WordPress

ampt — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:10:05 +0000

This is a handy little wrapper around wp_redirect I use in functions.php. Most of the time when using wp_redirct I want PHP to exit, so thats what the following function does, and while we’re at it why not throw in the ability to accept a post ID or a uri for the location.

/**
 * A handy wrapper to wp_redirect which exits after calling wp_redirect.
 * $location can be a url or a post id.
 *
 * @param string|integer
 * @return bool False if $location is not set
 */
function wptf_redirect( $location = '', $status = 302 ) {
	$permalink = false;

	if( is_int( $location ) ) {
		$permalink = true;
		$location = get_permalink( $location );
	}

	if ( ! $location ) {
		return false;
	}

	if( ! $permalink ) {
		$location = ltrim( $location, '/' );
		$location = '/'.trailingslashit( $location );
		$location = get_bloginfo( 'url' ).$location;
	}

	wp_redirect( $location, $status );
	exit;
}

Mute Screamer 1.0.3

ampt — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:56:50 +0000

Mute Screamer 1.0.3 is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. This is a minor update which addresses some bug fixes and improves compatibility with WordPress 3.2.

See the changelog for full details.

Mute Screamer 1.0.1 released

ampt — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:18:13 +0000

Mute Screamer 1.0.1 is a maintenance release which fixes numerous bugs.

This release fixes the automatic updates from PHPIDS.

PHPIDS recently updated their project tracking software, so a few changes were needed to get the updates from PHPIDS working again.

See the changelog for full details.

Mute Screamer 1.0 released

ampt — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:50:02 +0000

Following the latest release of WordPress comes the latest version of Mute Screamer.

Get your copy or update via the WordPress admin.

The biggest change in this release is ip banning and attack throttling.

You can configure Mute Screamer to ban clients when an attack is over the specified ban threshold. For attack throttling clients will be banned after a specified number of repeated attacks.

New features

IP banning
The ability to add fields to the exclusion list while on the intrusions page
Email spam prevention

Other updates include:

i18n support
Updated 500.php template

Have a look at the change log for the full list of improvements and enhancements.

Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and apachectl

ampt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:30:15 +0000

I just upgraded to 10.6.5 and noticed that apachectl stops working properly. When I run apacheclt now it gives me this error:

/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument

The problem seems to be with the ULIMIT variable in the shell script:

ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="ulimit -S -n `ulimit -H -n`"

I think the problem is that ulimit returns “unlimited” which cannot be used in the command ulimit -S -n, so I just changed the ULIMIT back to what it was before upgrading to 10.6.5:

ULIMIT_MAX_FILES=""