If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo […][...] → Read more

My next plugin is ready for shipping, but I like it so much already that I want to give it some special treatment: a polyglot release. I'm looking for a few kind translators willing to spend 3 minutes to take care of about 20 words or short sentences, and translate these in their mother tongue. […][...] → Read more

Yet another slight update to Who Sees Ads. This release, stamped 1.3.3, fixes a small glitch that would make the "Help Intro and Wizard" always show, and also fixes a bug in the way custom search engines can be defined in your my_options.php. On the prospective side of things, I'm currently searching (if there is) […][...] → Read more

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Welcome back to the "Who Sees Ads" blog. No, seriously, I'd really like to get over this now, but I guess it's all my fault if when I add features, some pesky bugs manage to sneak in :) Some were quite trivial to fix, but I'd like to publicly thank Steffen Richter again for his […][...] → Read more

Another upgrade for Who Sees Ads, everybody's favorite ad management plugin. This version is not a trivial bug fix but do contains a few interesting stuff for everybody. New features: Widget support! Thanks to the excellent Denis de Bernardy's suggestions and code, widget aware themes can now fully manage object positioning in their sidebars. A […][...] → Read more

Yet another minor update for Who Sees Ads which was requested by people using popularish and conflicting plugins: ImageManager and WP-Contact-Form. Current version of Who Sees Ads, 1.2.2, adds support for WP-Contact-Form's terrible code. I hate to say this and I mean no offense to Ryan who wrote the plugin, but the code is really […][...] → Read more

How are ads served on wordpress.com? To new visitors, depending on some factors and contexts… Photomatt gives details, and compares the features on wordpress.com with the one I coded for my plugin Who Sees Ads. How great is that ? :) (via)[...] → Read more

I've updated Who Sees Ads (you know, the Ultimate Ad Management Plugin:) to fix a javascript error under WordPress 2.3 which would prevent the menu from working. Latest is now Who Sees Ads 1.2.1. Get your copy ![...] → Read more

Anyone can notify about bugs in WordPress using Trac, where also anyone can submit patches to fix them. When someone actually submits a patch which is later on approved by head developers and included in WordPress' core, the changelog contains a tiny credit to them: "props Joti" for example (props meaning something like thanks, yeepee, […][...] → Read more