by David Gewirtz | Mar 31, 2016 | Lab Notes
This note corresponds to the 4.0.16 release of Seamless Donations, which adds necessary support for secured http communications for PayPal IPNs. This both future-proofs Seamless Donations for the upcoming PayPal-mageddon when PayPal goes all https for IPN-based...
by David Gewirtz | Mar 28, 2016 | Lab Notes, Seamless Donations
I just finished installing my first-ever SSL certificate by hand. While it wasn’t exactly fun, it wasn’t as harrowing as I expected it to be. Of more value, I learned about some helpful tricks and resources, which is why I put myself through this process....
by David Gewirtz | Mar 26, 2016 | Lab Notes, Seamless Donations
This lab note corresponds with the release of Seamless Donations 4.0.15. While this release took longer to complete than I would have liked due to some family circumstances, it’s a large release with some very important compatibility options that should make...
by David Gewirtz | Mar 18, 2016 | Lab Notes
If you’d like the story of my WordPress adopted plugins first year anniversary, check out my ZDNet article.
by David Gewirtz | Mar 5, 2016 | Lab Notes, ZENPRESS
I’ve been preparing to move some of my ZENPRESS-based sites off of a host that permits running the old PHP 5.3 to a modern, managed host that requires a modern PHP implementation. Unfortunately, ZENPRESS dies horribly on PHP 5.4, because PHP removed call-time...
by David Gewirtz | Mar 2, 2016 | Lab Notes
Interesting article on change in policy for managing plugin frameworks. Seamless Donations uses such a framework to provide its dashboard interface, but is already following the recommended practice. Seamless Donations bundles the framework in the distribution, so...
