Ryan Hellyer

I had an epiphany whilst out running this evening. You can use “sporting methods” to block comment spam, but this can be improved.

Due to the risk of my private messages becoming non-private, I am now using the Cryptocat to Facebook encryption service to secure my messages.

I am a proud Kiwi and am now the proud owner of both the ryan.kiwi and hellyer.kiwi domain names. What should I do with them?

You may have noticed that WordPress won’t allow you to upload SVG files by default. The following class can be used to provide SVG support in WordPress.

Backing up your website regularly is extremely important. If you aren’t, then you should be! I’ve seen way too many people have their websites hacked.

I have released an update to the Multi-lingo plugin, based on input from Nadia Tokerud.

There are two excellent plugins for handling multiple post thumbnails within WordPress. They are unfortunately not compatible with one another.

I’ve installed the The Day We Fight Back WordPress plugin to protest government surveillance.

I’m heading north, back to the frozen wilderness of beautiful Norway to attend WordCamp Norway this weekend.

I spent the whole of today camped out in a Kiwi cafe in Berlin, nutting out how to handle end to end encryption in WordPress. The result of all that effort, is a WordPress plugin called “End to end”.