Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Including data in the page for your plugin’s JavaScript

Nip over to Otto’s blog and read his post entitled don’t include wp-load, please which I’m in complete and total agreement with. I’d like to add to the solutions with the following method of adding data to your page for use by your plugin’s JavaScript: wp_localize_script. Continue reading ‘Including data in the page for your plugin’s JavaScript’

Taking stock

I have a client with a lot lot lot lot of WordPress sites, and I’m helping them craft a strategy for dealing with WordPress throughout their business. One thing we wanted to do was to take stock of all the plugins they have installed on all their sites, work out how many are in common, understand if any have security issues and so forth. Logging into hundreds of WordPress sites, even if we did have their login details, isn’t my idea of fun so I hacked some of the WordPress plugin functions to output a report on any plugins it finds in a directory. Continue reading ‘Taking stock’