WordPress makes up some large percentage of the web. As I’m writing this, web development firms all over the world are churning out WordPress sites for their clients. Some of these installs are vanilla and basic, yet some come with exceedingly complicated plugin/theme combinations. WordPress’ ease of use is a double edged sword. The positive side being a developer may complete a feature rich, member’s only website in one day. The negative being, a multitude of plugins and code snippets written by other developers are included in these projects (other wise they wouldn’t be completed within a day). A good developer will make good choices as to what plugins to use, a novice developer may not be able to tell, and things can become dangerous.
As of version 6.78 things began to change, first the developers removed the upload feature, and the wp-cli functionality. Newer versions of the plugin are really stripped down and include less functionality than 6.77 did. The new version exists on the Wordpress repository almost exclusively to upsell you to the paid version. The new plugin is still hackable, but there are more steps required than what’s described below, and like I said, it doesn’t work with wp-cli. The steps below to increase the plugin size don’t work on the new version.
Within the same week, my girlfriend and I both found ourselves without phones. Her Galaxy took a soaking in the ladies room, and my late Nexus 5 had ceased to charge despite all repair effort. So now, I find myself with two fresh Nexus 5’s, a white for my girlfriend and a black one for myself, running Android Lolipop 5.0.1.
I’m going to walk through the process of what I’ve done setting up the devices. They are almost completely open source, with additional security and privacy features to be installed in Part 2. This is written as a fairly high level overview of the process, so I’ll try not to get into the nittygritty. This isn’t intended as a walk-through.
Although I’ve not actually been inside yet, I’m on the email list for the Sacramento Hacker Lab. A few weeks ago they put out an email alerting local developers that their new location in Rocklin is hosting an event for Intel’s RealSense 3D camera technology. It’s not really my field but I love leaning new things, and I love any kind of conference, so I applied. A few weeks later I got called up by an event organizer and they were nice enough to grant me a spot.