Author Archives: Stephen R

Add New Headers to WordPress Plugins or Themes

I’ve had a few patches committed to WordPress core in the last few versions, and have sadly neglected to do writeups about them so that others could take advantage of the new features. I hope to remedy that in the next few posts. First off, WordPress 2.9 has a new feature that allows [...]

Hackbook finale

In between trick-or-treaters I spent today finishing up the repairs to my new/old laptop. The first optical drive I ordered was DOA, so I had to order a new one. Did the swap today. Took a little testing and such, but I now have a fully operational system, (which is nice).
In the [...]

Hackbook

My laptop has been a bit long in the tooth for a while now. It’s a 12″ Mac Powerbook G4 circa 2003. It actually runs OS 10.5 pretty well, which is impressive considering it originally came with OS 9 (that’s — count ‘em — 6 operating systems ago). The most noticeable issue [...]

Every Halloween costume you ev…

Every Halloween costume you ever had was a failure compared to this: http://bit.ly/hLfbY (via @TheBloggess)

Virtual Multiblog 2.6.1

Just released Virtual Multiblog v2.6.1. The primary new feature in the 2.6 line is auto-plugins.
That is, you can specify plugins that are automatically activated for all (or just some) blogs.
Check it out!

Mac OS 9 lives!

Mac OS 9 lives! And it has a browser: http://classilla.org/

An ode to long URLs

An ode to long URLs – and a suggestion or two: http://bit.ly/syESq

10,000 words advocating “sub p…

10,000 words advocating “sub plugins” for WordPress, only to discover I’ve just reinvented something called “Interfaces” http://bit.ly/2rdWQ