Swashata has written 209 posts

Hey there! This is the place where I write about the technologies I understand. Personally I'm a geek and professionally Web Developer. You can also check my other site to get to know about my other hobbies ;)

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In our last post, we talked about the fact that we got hacked because of TimThumb vulnerability. While fixing the vulnerability, I realized that, we were not the only one who got hacked. Plenty of websites using TimThumb to resize their images, got hacked. So, I thought of putting together a nice step by step guide on how to recover from this kind of hack. Please note that, while the nature of the hack may vary, we are trying to give an...

It’s been quite a long and this time, I really had to suffer for my negligence. For a past few days, if you had a visit to our blog or any of our network sites, you should have noticed a “Malware Warning”. This was because of the known vulnerability of TimThumb which our theme was using. I believe on 7th Nov, our intechgrity blog was compromised and suspicious codes were injected. The worst thing was, all the index.php...

It has been quite a long I am doing stuffs with WordPress. The one of the nice thing about WordPress is, we get a ready to use admin backend with almost all possible css’ needed! Nice table structure, nested menu, Title with nice icons, pagination…you just name it! WordPress has them all! To use them, what we need to do is code our plugin so that it generates the proper xhtml code with proper css classes. Finding the correct CSS...

jQuery UI has always been my favorite tool for creating custom and rich User Interface. On my last project, I thought of using the UI dialog as reusable modal prompts, just like some jQuery plugins like Colorbox, Fancybox etc. But while doing that I faced some problem like, chaining the dialog to multiple class based selectors and attaching the dialog open events to respective anchor elements. After reading the documentation a bit, I came...

Well, it has been a while since we announced the long awaited come back of ours… But it’s never too late to start . So here we are with a new Free Project! I was going through some free psds of navigation menus. I found one really good and thought of converting it to a nicely coded CSS/XHTML menu. But I couldn’t stop myself and added a bit of animation using jQuery! Here you can find the demo and the as obvious the...

Finally someone reincarnated the evil spirits… It’s been quite a long (really loong) we were caught inside the bottle, but now we are free again. And just like those old fairy tales, after such a long time of thrall, we have become more powerful and stronger. Yes! You have heard it right. We are now limited not only to WordPress… We have extended our knowledge to a better eCommerce platform, Open Cart. Thanks to our...

So, after a long break, we are back. Back with another cool new WordPress Plugin. The reason behind the in-activeness was I was really busy doing some college work and working for a client. Luckily both of the work progressed well, and the best part is, I successfully developed an Event management plugin for WordPress. Yes, this plugin has been made open source. Using WP Simple Event Management you can easily add events with start date, end...

So, we have released our second plugin WP Category Post Lists and I hope it serves you well. One thing about the plugin is, it uses WordPress’ default featured image to show the thumbnails. As discussed previously, you can register any size of images you want. While uploading the image, WordPress will automatically check for registered sizes and will crutch the image accordingly. But, what if you register a new image size? Will the...

Finally after loads of development, bug testing and feature implementation, I am glad to release my second WordPress Plugin, WP Category Post List. What the Plugin does is, gives you a fully configurable widget to show posts filtered by categories on your sidebar, footer (widgetized area). So, how it differs from other plugins of the same family? Well, just to start here are the complete feature list… #0: Feature: A total of 21...

So, you have got a cool new plugin with a dashing settings page. You have your very own HTML structure and CSS as well to style them… But, you are confused how to tell WordPress to include the StyleSheet in the admin page head? Well, this happened with me also. The primary solution I thought of was either include the CSS inside <style> tag or use admin_head hook to output (echo to be precise) the <link> to the CSS file. It...