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WordPress 2008/08/08 16 min read

2008 Plugin Competition Review, Part 2 of 2

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 you and me don't…

WordPress 2008/08/07 11 min read

2008 Plugin Competition Review, Part One

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 the plugins I started…

WordPress 2008/08/05 1 min read

Back On The Saddle!

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, fantastic scuba dives in…

My Life 2008/07/04 1 min read

Offline For a Month

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 :)

WordPress 2008/07/03 2 min read

Thoughts on Blog By Email and WordPress

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 been a core feature…

WordPress 2008/07/02 3 min read

What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6

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 a major change to your…

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 now.

2008/07/01 9h55 #

WordPress 2008/06/30 2 min read

WordPress Plugin Coding Tips

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" link trick, that I've added…

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:)

2008/06/30 8h26 #

twitvn: sends SVN commits to a Twitter feed. That'd be fun to have a Twitter account for, say, WordPress commits.

2008/06/28 10h35 #