July, 2012 - Half-Elf on Tech

12 July, 2012How To

Scorched Earth Security

Burn the land and boil the sea. You can’t reinfect me.

9 July, 201214 July, 2012How It Is, How To

Art History of Plugins

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884

How an art history lesson will help you be a better judge of what plugins are safe(r) to install on your WordPress site.

5 July, 20125 August, 2015How It Is, How To

Plugin Licenses, Upsells, and Add-ons

If you can’t obfuscate your code, or have an API just to check a license, how are you supposed to earn any money with a plugin in the WordPress repository? Stop thinking about hiding your code and start extending it.

2 July, 20123 September, 2013How It Is

Highway To Plugin Danger Zone

Third Party code in your plugins are great, but you have to know what you’re getting in to, be willing and ready to support it, and know how to secure it. So. Do ya, punk?