Ryan Hellyer just pointed out that the comments feed here at WordPress Garage was not working, and apparently hasn’t been working since the end of April. I wonder if it had to do with upgrading to 2.5…
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Hi all – I was wondering if one of you can help us find a solution to a feature we would like to add to a WordPress site:
The site in question has multiple contributors. Most are dedicated to certain categories. We would like to automatically display on a category page only the authors who have written articles in that particular category.
For example, let’s say we have a category called “Cucumbers” and a category called “Tomatoes.” When someone clicks on the Cucumbers category we would like only the authors who have written posts categorized as Cucumber posts to appear, and on the Tomatoes category page, we would like only the authors who have written Tomato category posts to appear. There may be some overlap between the pages, since some authors may write posts for both the Cucumber and the Tomato categories.
One solution we thought of is to call the category we want and the number of posts from that category and then display the list of authors. The problem is it shows duplicate authors. Here’s the code:
<?php query_posts('showposts=20&cat=3'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_author_posts_link (); ?>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<?php endwhile;?>
Is there a way to prevent duplicate authors from appearing? Or is there a better way?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ryan on the WordPress development blog (which is running on Prologue, very nicely I might add) has basically congratulated the “Farsi and Hebrew translation folks” for their hard work making the WordPress admin look good in right-to-left languages.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the Hebrew version of WordPress exists mostly, of not completely, thanks to Ran Hartstein. Ran always makes sure the Hebrew speaking audience gets their Hebrew version of WordPress as quickly as possible. Of course, the extended Israeli WordPress community adds a lot of value to the usage of WordPress, with many right-to-left themes, plugins, and the vibrant and helpful wpheb google group.
Security Focus has reported a security problem with the Search Unleashed plugin. The plugin stores search queries, but does not validate stored data and sends it back “raw” to the browser.
I recently wrote about a plugin that made the WordPress admin more accessible from an iPhone. Now there’s the iWPhone plugin/theme package that “automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. It detects the iPhone/iPod touch’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone and iPod touch visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme.”
iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme
Updated Feb. 14, 2008
Deziner Folio has a really useful step-by-step guide to taking your XHTML/CSS layout and converting it to a WordPress theme. They say this whole process can be completed in 30-40 minutes!
Another option is DevBox’s Wireframe WordPress theme, which is available for download on their site. This is basically a barebones theme that you can use to easily take a XHTML/CSS layout and convert it into a WordPress theme.
Test Theme Wireframe WordPress Theme
Secunia has reported an “id” SQL injection vulnerability in the WordSpew plugin for WordPress. Here’s the description of the vulnerability:
DESCRIPTION: S@BUN has reported a vulnerability in the Wordspew plugin for Wordpress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed to the parameter “id” in wordspew-rss.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Read more about the vulnerability here.
Oak Innovations has a great guide to finding and editing images for use on your blog. The guide goes through copyright issues, licenses, and sources for finding images, and then introduces Picnik, an online image editor. Since reading this post, I’m hooked on Picnik. I used to open Photoshop just to resize images, but now I right-click on an image thanks to the handy-dandy Firefox Picnik addon, and do what I gotta do in Picnik.
Two Tips for Easily Finding and Processing Images for your Blog Posts by Oak Innovations Blog
SphinnCon Israel is this coming Tuesday in Jerusalem, and will have a great panel of experts on search and internet marketing, including representatives from Google, TechCrunch, Yedda, and Kenshoo.
Read my post here to get more details on the event, and to see what I think is missing from the event. (Here’s a hint: if you look at the panels, you’d mistakenly believe that there are only members of one sex in the search and marketing industry. Guess which sex that is?)
A vulnerability has been discovered in the WP-Cal plugin for WordPress, an event calendar plugin by Fahlstad. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Just last week another plugin by Fahlstad had a security issue uncovered: the WP-Forum plugin. Bad luck for Fahlstad?
WordPress WP-Cal Plugin “id” SQL Injection – Advisories – Secunia
