New in v2.0:

• Rewrote Settings page to WP 2.5 standard
• New Setting to strip internal links (href=”#id”) from pull-quotes
• Added “Settings” link to Actions on Plugins screen
• Strips “a” tags that lack an “href” attribute from pull-quotes
• Strips “id” and “name” attributes from tags in pull-quotes
• Improved error correction if Style files go missing (not finished though)
• BUGFIX: Files starting with “.” should not appear in styles list in Admin
• Misc. code cleanup

New in v 1.7:

• BUGFIX: “preview” script is now only added to Pull-Quotes page — used to add to ever admin page (was causing problems when editing posts)
• Improved security via nonces
• Changed name of preview script in Admin to avoid potential conflicts
• Removed “edit CSS” link from Admin. Doesn’t work in WP 2.5
• Simplified HTML comments on page headers. Blog pages no longer have plugin URL and Admin page no longer has version.
• Extensive code cleanup and abstraction

I’m very happy with some of the things I figured out along the way to 1.7 and 2.0. I anticipate they will result in one or more tutorials for plugin authors, not to mention one or two submissions to WordPress core software.

In the meantime, for Geeks and Norms alike, the plugin is good to go.

Go get it!

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I have, however, been doing a lot of code cleanup recently in anticipation of a new version release. I’m releasing the plugin as it stands now in the hopes that some of the cleanup and normalization I’ve done will fix some of these issues.

There are no new features in this release, which is why I’m calling it a “beta”. Don’t let that tag scare you off though — the code is a lot more tight than in the previous release, I just wanted to add in a couple things before the “final” version 1.7. That will probably come out this weekend or soon after.

So, if things are working great, no worries (though the upgrade certainly won’t hurt anything). If you’ve had issues with this plugin, download the latest and greatest and give it a try.

Go get it!

Enjoy.

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This has always irritated me, as <sup> is a prefectly useful tag, and should be usable without messing up the appearance of a page.

After a bit of experimenting, I think I’ve found a solid, simple, cross-browser solution. All you need to do is put the following in your CSS file:

sup {
position: relative;
top: -3px;
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 90%;
}

This appears to standardize the various ways that different browsers render <sup>erscripted text, and it also eliminates that pesky line-height gap!

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A user requested that i allow for an option to turn off the CSS links, so he could reduce HTTP requests by manually putting the CSS in his own stylesheets. So here it is. I live the serve.

Some minor under-the-hood changes, also.

Go get it!

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Dunce Cap was inspired by this plugin by Travis Hines. It allows you to “tag” your commenters with an image.

Currently there is only one image/tag built-in, though you can easily add you own using the Options screen. See the comments to this post for a demonstration, and if you install it, Read the “readme.txt” — it has some important info. As this is a beta, it currently requires one extra step before it will actually do anything.

I fully intent to add more built-in tags, and to rename this to something more generalized (and less negative). Suggestions are welcome.

Download: dunce.zip

[Update: The full plugin is out under a new name: Comment Spotlight.]

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I’ve been wanting to make a customized theme for this blog for a while. One of the problems was finding a good starting point, as starting from the default theme provided with WordPress means having to go through and strip out all the stuff particular to that theme first. I was looking for a good “blank slate” from which to base my designs.

As I looked at various themes out there, I found a few I liked, but many were, simply put, poorly coded — and led to much more frustration than they were worth. Finally, just today, I struck gold.

I’ve found a new WordPress theme that was deliberately designed to be extremely basic, because its raison d’etre is to be customized. The author has also been very careful in designing it with stable, solid code and markup that makes it easy to customize using just CSS and not having to much with PHP. So in the next couple weeks as I have time I fully intend to be making some changes around here. This place needs a new coat of paint!

The theme is called “Sandbox”, and you can get it at http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/

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I’ve even included a new “Modern” style to get y’all started. If you’d like to submit a style, I would love to have some more interesting ones, so feel free to send them along.

Check it out!

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If you’re anywhere near my age, you probably spent a good part of the 80′s playing computer games such as the early Ultimas. One of the common elements of these games is the first-person perspective dungeon.

Someone has figured out a 3-D perspective dungeon using nothing but JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.

Check it out!

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