Here is part 2 (of 2) of my “reviewing”, mostly from a plugin coder’s point of view, the plugins running in the WordPress Plugin Competition. Please, please and puh-leaaase, if you are a contestant and if you didn’t read Part One, do read it before you proceed to part 2. There is a mandatory disclaimer that [...] → Read more

Every year or so, the excellent staff from the excellent Weblog Tools Collection runs a Plugin Competition. This is a very exciting moment of the plugin year because it fosters plugin coding and plugin ideas, and introduces new coders. This year, 50 plugins were submitted, which I think is excellent. As I looked at some of [...] → Read more

Hello my dear Readers, guess who’s back? My holidays were pretty enjoyable. I spent a lot of time with my two kids, and had a very enjoyable week with my wife in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico where we had a taste of all the great stuff this country has to offer: white sand beaches, warm sea, [...] → Read more

Way back in 2005 someone said “Email is the universal API“. This is what came to my mind when I found out and tried Posterous, a blog-by-email service. I think this service has a lot of potential for casual bloggers, and already has a few rather cool features regarding media embedding. Blogging by email has always [...] → Read more

A WordPress install is a bunch of directories and files, but two of them are particular: the file wp-config.php and the directory wp-content/ are personal and don't get overwritten when you upgrade your blog. In WordPress 2.6, they get so personal that you can even move them out of the WordPress root. This must bring [...] → Read more

Version 2.1 of Better Feed fixes some compatibility issues for people using the visual editor which was double-escaping HTML (boy, do I loathe this visual stuff) and introduces a new token allowing for embedding any PHP expression into feed footers, for maximum flexibility (%%<?php if ($that) do_this(); ?>%% anyone ?). Put your feed on steroids [...] → Read more

Stephen, on his geek blog Nerdaphernalia, is running a series of excellent posts giving advices to plugin authors for neat subtle effects: adding a "Configure" link right next to the "Activate" link on the Plugins page, or how to give credit to your plugin without cluttering the page (I'm a big fan of the "Configure" [...] → Read more

wpdevel follows what gets committed into WordPress core. This may be easier (and less cluttered) than the wp-svn mailing list (except for the occasional Twitter downtime that is:) Share This Related posts Send Your SVN Commits to Twitter (0) Instant WordPress Beta Build (1) Wordpress.com Invite (0) Wordpress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design Competition (0) [...] → Read more

twitvn: sends SVN commits to a Twitter feed. That'd be fun to have a Twitter account for, say, WordPress commits. Share This Related posts WordPress SVN Now Twittered (0) Instant WordPress Beta Build (1) Wordpress.com Invite (0) Wordpress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design Competition (0) [...] → Read more

The mother of all the feed plugins is back: Better Feed version 2.0 just hit the repository and it's now even better than better. For those who don't know it, Better Feed allows you to highly customize your feed, adding basically anything you'd like below each item: a copyright notice, an "Add to delicious" link, a [...] → Read more