Yeepee, it's that time again. During the whole month of July, I'll be mostly offline: sporadic infrequent internet access to check any urgent email, but probably no activity on this blog. That means no code update, no great stuff for WordPress, no support for my plugins. I'm on the beach with my kids :)[...] → 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 […][...] → 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