Tag Archives: filters

Bug Chasing

By Dougal | Published: March 7, 2010

Okay, so in my post about Code Spelunking I mentioned about how working on a project can lead you to explore the code because you need to become more familiar with how the code works. But it can also lead you to explore the code to figure out why code doesn’t work. In this particular case, I spent many hours puzzling over why something didn’t work correctly, chasing down the root cause, and eventually finding a bug in the WordPress core. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged API, bugfix, bugfixes, Bugs, code, Development, html, images, kses, PHP, Programming, trac, webdev, WordPress, XHTML, XML | 13 Comments

Jumping Into WordPress Plugin Programming

By Dougal | Published: August 16, 2009

In a few weeks, I will be a presenter at WordCamp Birmingham 2009 (that’s Birmingham, Alabama, not England, by the way). Last year, I did a presentation on “The Future of WordPress“, shortly before the release of version 2.7. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged actions, API, hooks, Plugins, presentations, programmng, wcbhm09, wordcamp, WordPress | 14 Comments

WordPress Webhooks Plugin

By Dougal | Published: August 10, 2009

Check out this demo video of a new plugin by mitcho, called HookPress. HookPress adds the ability to use webhooks as WordPress actions and filters. Since webhooks run from a web server (not directly inside WordPress), this means that you could, for example, use scripts in python, perl, ruby, or whatever to extend WordPress. How’s that for nifty? And what’s extra nice is that the user interface for it on the WordPress side looks super simple to use.

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged actions, API, hookpress, hooks, http, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Plugins, Programming, pushbutton web, python, rhino, Ruby, scriptlets, webhooks, WordPress | 2 Comments

Fun Filters

By Dougal | Published: October 4, 2003

UPDATE 2008-09-22: This code was superceded by my Text Filter Suite plugin. You can download the current version of the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Updated Oct 4. Fixed code to not convert sequences inside the regex example into smilies. Updated funfilters.zip file with a properly formatted README.

I finally got around to improving and cleaning up my blog filters. [...]