Working on a Twitter plugin
I have decided that the Twitter plugins for WordPress don’t fulfill my very (low) demands. Everyone seems to be overthrown with options and stuff I dont’t want or need for that matter.
So what do I do? As the solution oriented person I am I write my own of course. This plugin has only 2 options: your Twitter screen name and how many tweets to show. Nothing fancy like re-tweets and mentions and stuff like that. Just the latest tweets.
I’m going to add a sidebar widget to this plugin. As of now there is just a template tag.
This is still in beta and I’m tweaking and optimizing and when I’m done I’ll make it available for download. Interested in this plugin? Let me know. and I’ll send you a copy for testing.
Scaffold, new WP theme
I have decided to share this theme with the WordPress community. I wanted to have it exclusive on this site, but hey.. it’s open source.
Grab it from here.
I will be getting some pictures and a demo site up for the new themes and plugins shortly. Got vaccation now so hopefully I get some time to re-upload the old themes and plugins as well.
Theme demo working
The theme browser has been down for a while due to some maintenance. Today I activated it again so you can browse all my free WordPress themes.
Security issues in WP Forum fixed
All security issues in this report is fixed.
New version is 1.7.6
Excerpt from the report
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WP-Forum plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks, and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.1) Input passed to the “user” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “showprofile” and “page_id” to a page with the “” tag) is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows e.g. retrieving usernames, password hashes, and e-mail addresses for all users and administrators, but requires knowledge of the database table prefix.
2) Input passed to the “forum_query” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “search”) is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the target user has valid user credentials.
3) Input passed to the “forumtext” parameter in the WordPress installation’s index.php script (when “forumaction” is set to “post”) is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the attacker has valid user credentials.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.7.4. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.Provided and/or discovered by:
1) websec Team
2, 3) FeDeReR and sinner_01
WP-Forum version 1.7.4
Maintanance release.
WP-Forum version 1.7.3
At last. WP-Forum version is now 1.7.3. It took some time but I tried to eliminate many of the bugs reported in the support forum. Some new features:
- Spam words filter option. (Optional)
- PHP 4 compability.
- Moderator can be set individually for every forum.
- Supports BBCode. (Optional)
- A new skin.
- Misc. bug fixes.
And as always when installing a new version deactivate and re-acivate the plugin in the WordPress admin area.
The spam filter option gets the spam words from WordPress’s own spam filter and words can be added in the WordPress admin -> option -> disscussion.
Looking for moderators
My work load has increase quite a lot lately and I have not much time for anwering all the support forum questions. No I now many of you out there are very familiar with WordPress, PHP and my plugins. So I would really like some help in moderation of the forum.
Many of you are well suited for answering some of the support questions and now I really need your help. If the work load decreases on the support issue I may have more time to develop the plugins and fix bugs.
So if you feel up to the challange please drop me an email on the contact page.
Current moderators are me and Ghidra99.
WP-Forum version 1.7
Much new in this release, including skin support and email subcriptions for threads. Skins are changeable from the Wp admin interface. Better profile view and easy to install new skins.
It’s now possible to show the latest activity in the sidebar.
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WP-Forum version 1.6
Since the new design of the forum plugin I have gotten many complaints regarding recognition. So I made a new design looking more like PHPBB so people get a feel of recognition. The result can be seen on my support forum.
Moreover, the feeds are fixed and is working.
Next version
- Support for skins and will be changable from the admon interface. The current design will be default and the previous design will be included as well.
- Show latest activity in the sidebar.
- Ability to subcribe to threads via email.
Sidenotes with commenting – a tutorial
As i re-designed this site I made the decision to remove the fQuick plugin sidenotes in the sidebar. fQuick do not allow commenting on the links and I felt like having the opportunity to get some reader feedback on those. As it now seems many of you would like to have this too. Here is a small tutorial how I made it.
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