How To Welcome Commenters, Lesson #43

To those using comment moderation on their blog, here is a simple trick that should become part of every theme. I just left a comment on Logo Design Love, an empyreal blog about logo design by David Airey. My comment went into moderation as per his comment policy, but instead of the standard message you've been told a million times…

Famfamfam Icon Explorer: Search, Sort, Find

When updating my WordPress plugin Admin Drop Down Menu with all these cute icons from famfamfam, I felt a bit overwhelmed by them. I knew there were a lot of icons, I just never realized there were so many! Digging through 1000 icons for something that would match "Permalink options" is not that fast. After spending 15 minutes looking at…

Plugin Reviews Aftermath: Novice Tips

The plugin quick reviews I recently did (Plugin Competition roundup, part 1, part 2) got two consequences so far. First, they generated some feedback from readers asking for insights or advices, and second, they quite left me in perplex astonishment regarding how many coders ship plugin with messy code. About the second point, I threw together some personal thoughts and…

Admin Drop Down Menu Update

I've just committed a quick update to Admin Drop Down Menu, now showing version number 2.2.1 This update brings in a few CSS tweaks and improves the compatibility with Fluency, so if you're using this admin theme you'll be happier after upgrading. On the subject of this wonderful little plugin, my ego quite inflated yesterday when I came across this…