Keeping Inactive Plugins in your WordPress site

eeping inactive plugins in a WordPress installation could leave the site open to bad guys who target a site, through installed plugins that might have vulnerabilities.  Especially those that are old, unmaintained and may not have been well-designed/built, in the first place.  For these reasons it is standard advice to remove any plugins that are …

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Hello World! the computer-era version of 'Testing-testing!'

ello World! is a standardized minimum computer program, intended eg as an example for beginners, or as a comparison of different programming languages, for advanced users.  Hello World! is an icon of computer culture, with significance beyond its utility or pedagogy roles. in C: #include int main() { printf(“Hello, world!\n”); }

Plugin a software extension technique

lugins are a fundamental and fairly obvious software-engineering idea (going way back), which though formerly ‘just’ a utilitarian tool, have become a popular-computing & Internet sensation. They’re all the rage now. A plugin is a relatively small & limited-scope piece of special-purpose software that can be optionally added to another more general-purpose & full-featured software …

WordPress, website platform almost a quarter of the Web runs on it

ordPress is a web program, software that runs a blog or website. Originally a nice, simple little blog-script, it encountered success early, and was soon no longer simple, or little. Still, it retains a degree of restrain in it’s design & implementation that establish & maintain a watershed of sorts between it & other programs. …

WordPress plugin repository

pluginn repositor blog & website software hosts on their own site, a large collection of 3rd-party titles for the program. As of late 2010, there are over 15,000. They call the page for this repository, WordPress Extend-Plugins. WordPress does some vetting of these plugins; provides a standardized format for organizing information about plugins, and creates …

Short Syntax Highlighter, WordPress plugin a WordPress plugin

hort Syntax Highlighter is a for the website software. It is intended for nicely-displaying examples of computer-code, within your posts & pages. There are more than a few such ‘highlighters’ around (they typically color the different ‘syntax’ elements differently, thus ‘highlighting’ them). Why do we see ‘yet another one’? How might this one be of …