Locking Down WordPress is a book by CodePoet featuring Rachel Baker, Brad Williams, and John Ford. If you want to know why and how WordPress sites get hacked, and a handful of tips on how to prevent that, this free book is an awesome place to start. It’s quite short and even has a TL;DR section for those of you who are busy.
Quick Flickr Widget and the Flickr API Services
Hope you remember the Quick Flickr Widget plugin for WordPress. Well, since version 1.2 I’ve changed the way it works. Prior to 1.2, as Donncha suggested in his Flickr plugin, I used a public Flickr RSS feed to display the items, using WordPress’ RSS functions to move around the feed. Anyways I thought that I couldn’t take the plugin far enough, so I decided to use the Flickr...
Pro Web 2.0 Mashups
Finally, I got the book about Remixing Data and Web Services and read about 3 chapters. It seems that everyone is already mixing up all kinds of data from sources like Google Maps and News, Flickr photos, delicious bookmarks, last.fm charts and others. The very first mashups like Housingmaps.com are brilliant, and with Yahoo! Pipes coming along, things seem to get much easier for people without...