Using Git for WordPress plugin development.

I haven't used Subversion in years, and while I have done a lot of WordPress plugins over the year for work, they were all private and we never shared them on the registry.

I prefer to use git. I knew it had a svn sub-command however I've never used it. I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out how to push to WordPress's Subversion from git.

I tried to follow several guides but I kept getting Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history, I spent hours googling it, eventually I came to the conclusion I have to use a different branch.

I thought I'd share this. might save someone few hours of frustration.
Continue reading


A simpler way to fight spam on WordPress

Update (2014-04-04) : The plugin is on now in WordPress's registry and on github, feel free to submit any patches.

There are 100s of different plugins that fight spam for WordPress, however almost all of them require user interaction someway or the other, and usually they require a remote service to verify the user's input.

While I was trying to combat spam on this site, I came across Anti-Spam, great concept, however it still required the user's interaction, and then my gears kicked in after analyzing the 1000s of spam comments that were posted on the site I wrote a very simple plugin to combat comment spam.

ChangeLog :

Continue reading