Japanese translation update
Japanese translation is added with v. 2.0.3 release at April 14th, 2010. Thanks to
Technolog.jp for the help.
After 6 months of participation in WordPress plugins developement I still wonder how people from all over the World help each other in order to make their sweet blog platform better. Thanks to all current and future contributors!
One useful note: Please not be confused with usual WordPress language translation files naming scheme
name-nn_NN.po,
name-nn_NN.mo, where
nn_NN – language code, e.g.
it_It,
es_Es, etc. Such scheme is valid not for all languages. For example for Japanese we must use just a
ja as the language code.
So today, at April, 15, 2010 I had to rename
ure-ja_JP.po and
ure-ja_JP.mo files to
ure-ja.po and
ure-ja.mo. The source of information about WordPress specific language codes can be found
here. I didn’t change plugin version and left it as 2.0.3 to not bother plugin users with plugin update requirement. If you downloaded URE 2.0.3 package yesterday, just rename Japanese language files according to the scheme above or download the latest installation package.
User Role Editor plugin description and download link are available at
this page.
SIG GUARD Updated
Next update v.1.3 is available for
Silence is Golden Guard WordPress plugin. It may now redirect every directory listing request to the site root, rebuild all SIG created dummy index.php file according to format selected (redirection to the root or just empty page), remove unused (garbage like) files from plugins folders, such as readme.txt, screenshot-*.gif, screenshot-*.png, screenshot-*.jpg. Those files are put into plugin setup package for wordpress.org to show information at the plugin page, and 1st – not used at your blog, 2nd – might expose plugin version to the potential attacker easy. He can see them in his browser. In case you use some plugin version with known vulnerability – it can be dangerous and it makes attackers life easier. We don’t want that, right?
If you have ideas to propose as addition to this plugin functionality, you are welcome! What staff from installed WordPress or its plugins is too promptness for the potential attackers? I will add an option to remove it to the next SIG Guard plugin version.
Translation Update
German translation is updated with plugin v. 2.0.2 release at April 11th, 2010. Thanks to
Peter for continued support.
To make new version of the plugin available to public faster I use on-line translators to update plugin language files. Of course, I understand, that easy accessible automated translation technologies (Google, Yahoo, other on-line services) are not good enough yet to replace a human in this field. So I include such on-line translated files into plugin’s package just as the starting point for some enthusiastic person to help me with real human translation. If you can help with my plugins translation to other languages, you are welcome! Left me your email via Contact form and I will send you my email address where you can send translation files.
I use Poedit software for work with translation files. If you have not experience in translation files creation/modification please read this article and related materials.
User Role Editor plugin is available for download here.
WordPress 3.0 Beta
Good news from WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 is available for download and testing. The primary source of the information can be found here, at
WordPress.org Blog. I’m curious about new features and functionality which were added to WordPress 3.0 version. Some of that are:
- The custom menus system (Appearance > Menus),
- WordPress and WordPress MU merge,
- various user interface changing,
- new default theme (Twenty Ten, including the custom background and header options),
- extended custom post type functionality,
- etc., etc…
I plan to investigate it and then tell you about WordPress 3.0 new staff here.
This time let’s check if something new was appeared in the famous WordPress 5 minute installation procedure. Does it still so much fast, simple and easy as it was many years before? Let’s start.
Site Map
This plugin generates XML file with special sitemap data. Such file helps to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to index site content. Search crawlers using such sitemap data, much easier discover the whole site structure and retrieve its content more efficiently. “Google (XML) Sitemap Generator for WordPress” plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated content. It also notifies major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com) every time you update your blog content.
Author:
Arne Brachhold
Plugin page at WordPress.org
Plugin Home Page
I use this plugin about a year and sure that it is very helpful. Recommend it to all WordPress blog owners.
MySQL Table Size
What to do if you need to know some MySQL database table real size? Thanks to MySQL, it is not very complex task. There is no need to know the table row length and multiply it on quant of rows in that table. Just remember about MySQL system database called
information_schema. It has right information for those who want to get DB table real size. Let’s look into the
information_schema.tables table. We will use next fields from it:
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TABLE_SCHEME (database name),
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TABLE_NAME (it is self-explaining),
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TABLE_ROWS (quant of rows in the table),
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DATA_LENGTH (table data length in bytes),
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INDEX_LENGTH (table indexes length in bytes)
User Role Editor
User Role Editor WordPress plugin allows you to change standard WordPress user roles capabilities with easiness of a few mouse clicks. Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done. In case you made some unneccessary change you always have the “Reset” button to restore roles state from the automatically made backup copy. Add and tune your own custom roles whiche you can assign to the users then. Delete self-made roles. Change defaul user role.
Why it could be necessary? Let’s suppose you wish that your multi-authored blog contributors upload their own graphics to use in their posts. WordPress “contributor” role has no such capability by default. In such situation you have needed to change user role capabilities manually using SQL client as I described at
“How to change wordpress user role capabilities” post, if you have enough knowledge in that field. But what to do if you have not?
