I have fixed the Minit plugin to work with CSS files that place font-face declarations inline as base64 encoded strings.
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Disable Title Rewrite in WordPress SEO
Here are two simple filters to remove the rewrite of <title> content functionality provided by WordPress SEO:
// Remove the wp_title filter
add_action( 'init', 'remove_wpseo_title_rewrite' );
function remove_wpseo_title_rewrite() {
global $wpseo_front;
remove_filter( 'wp_title', array( $wpseo_front, 'title' ), 15 );
}
// Remove the title metabox from backend UI
add_filter( 'init', 'remove_wpseo_title_rewrite_metabox' );
function remove_wpseo_title_rewrite_metabox( $metaboxes ) {
if ( isset( $metaboxes['title'] ) )
unset( $metaboxes['title'] );
return $metaboxes;
}
Content and CMS
In a world where we have infinite possible outputs for our content, it’s time to move beyond tools that rely on visual styling to convey semantic meaning. If we want true separation of content from form, it has to start in the CMS.
Photos and Timelapse Videos Using Avconv (ffmpeg)
Here is a set of bash scripts that I use to take photos at one minute intervals with a Logitech webcam attached to FitPC2i, sync with an external server for backup and automatically create daily timelapse videos that are uploaded to YouTube.
Interview with Dougal Campbell
It was in these early days that I first heard of this CGI script called PHP/FI. At this time, “PHP” stood for “Personal Home Pages” — it was only later that it was renamed to mean “PHP Hypertext Processor”. One of my first experiments was to use PHP and MySQL to create a database-driven news site for our customers, which I loosely modeled after Slashdot. It was my first blog-like system, pulling articles from the database newest-first, and displaying them ten-per-page. I didn’t even bother to make an article editing system, I just used PHPMyAdmin to add new entries to the database.
Building Medium
The making of Medium.com is a truly great insight into how a team of paid designers and developers lead by one vision and visionary try to build a modern day publishing platform.
While the idea behind Medium might be good, I think that at the current iteration the interface for consuming the content is really terrible and confusing. All posts are grouped into “collections” (which are just glorified categories) and they are almost impossible to navigate. It doesn’t provide any sense of the amount of collections there is or a way to see most popular / populated collections.
Update: It looks like they have recently added a dedicated page for all collections which makes it a lot easier to navigate and explore.
Glances System Monitor
Glances is a linux system monitor written in Python.
New Plugin: Numeric Shortlinks
Update: I have added support for alpha-numeric shortlinks. See the plugin docs for how to enable that.
Numeric Shortlinks is a WordPress plugin that enables shortened URLs out of post IDs. It is a very simple plugin (only 28 lines) that hooks into the pre_get_shortlink filter and doesn’t have any configuration options.
FeedBurner and WordPress
While adding new blogs to WP Roll I noticed that a lot of them still redirect their RSS feeds to FeedBurner. I guess it’s because of subscriber stats, email delivery and other little features that FeedBurner provides.
However, like others I have a strong feeling that FeedBurner will be the next product that Google shuts down. Luckily, FeedBurner offers 30-day feed redirection option, if you decide to remove the feed from FeedBurner:
So go ahead and claim back your short and awesome feed URL that WordPress provides by default.
Darkleech and Apache
According to recent blog posts published here and here by researchers from security firm Securi, Darkleech uses rogue Apache modules to inject malicious payloads into the webpages of the sites it infects and to maintain control of compromised systems. Disinfecting Web servers can prove extremely difficult since the malware takes control of the secure shell (SSH) mechanism that legitimate administrators use to make technical changes and update content to a site.
via Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites
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