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WordPress 2008/10/27 2 min read

WordPress 2.7 Featuring Your Favorite Actions

There's a very handy new function and feature in the upcoming WordPress 2.7: the favorite actions, showing a nice little drop down menu containing quick links to your, well, favorite tasks. By default, this drop down contains a link to "Add New Post", "Add New Page" and "Manage Comments". Hopefully and as usual, it's very easy to customize this menu…

GMail 2008/10/25 1 min read

This Account Is Currently Being Used in 1 Other Location

I've just noticed this (new, I guess) kind of warning on Gmail: "this account is currently being used in 1 other location at this IP" This is a welcome feature. I really wished Gmail would add more paranoid and security related notes and items like this one. I (most of us?) have most of their online and offline life summarized…

WordPress 2008/10/22 1 min read

WordPress Template Tags Reference

Theme authors (and most WordPress hackers in general) use "Template Tags" a lot (the bits like &lt?php the_something(); ?>. The main reference for them is the Template Tags Codex page, but after a wp-hackers discussion I found out about this nicely formatted Template Tag reference. All in one place and handy (not sure how often it is updated, though).

WordPress 2008/10/18 1 min read

WordPress 2.7 is Killing my Plugins. Hooray!

The unstable version of WordPress is now showing version "2.7-almost-beta" and you pretty much see most of what it's going to be. Basically… WordPress 2.7 is killing my plugins! Absolute Comments probably won't get updated for 2.7 since most of its feature will be built-in. Almost 3 years ago I wrote the first ever Admin Drop Down Menu plugin and…

WordPress 2008/10/06 1 min read

Get Your Theme Ready for 2.7, Part 2

Matt Martz has put up a very cool tutorial on segregating comments from trackbacks with WordPress 2.7 (something that has always been on my todo list, actually). Another handy read for theme authors.

WordPress 2008/09/29 1 min read

Get Your WordPress Theme Ready For 2.7

WordPress 2.7 (release date: November 2008) will bring a load of new features, and most of the cool new bits will concern comment managements. On the public side of your blog, you will be able to show them threaded and paged without any extra plugin. Well, at least if your theme is able to do so. Otto has written a…

WordPress 2008/09/08 1 min read

Get WordPress 2.6.2 Now. Like, Very Now.

Two hours ago WordPress 2.6.2 was committed. It's yet to be announced on the Development Blog but anyway, this is a very urgent mandatory upgrade. Let's all salute the responsiveness of the core team: version 2.6.2 was released about 5 hours after a critical bug affecting 2.6.1 was filed. Upgrade!

Code 2008/09/07 2 min read

Posting Unchecked Checkboxes in HTML Forms

I ran into an interesting problem, facing what is certainly an HTML limitation that had somehow never really occurred to me. The thing is: when you submit a form with empty fields, empty values are POSTed, except for checkboxes and radio buttons which are not posted at all, just as if they were no such field in the form. For…

Music 2008/09/01 1 min read

Close to Heaven: a Jazz Tribute to Led Zeppelin

A post that's not about WordPress but, hey, it's about Jazz, so I'm not that far :) One of my sisters works for the (French) National Jazz Orchestra and so I was invited to one of their concerts, featuring their album named Close to Heaven: A Led Zeppelin Tribute. Oh my. I know nothing about Jazz and I'm only a…

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