September 3, 2008 – 10:13 am
Just trying out Google’s new browser, Chrome. The admin back end for WordPress (that is, the page I’m working on as I type this) is blazingly fast running on Chrome. Faster than Firefox, IE or Safari — as in: No Contest.
Google set out with a specific goal: to create a browser that is [...]
August 27, 2008 – 10:58 am
One of the most common questions I get regarding the Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress comes from people wanting to have multiple blogs running on the same theme, but with a different header for each blog. It can be done, and it’s fairly easy to do. Once you have it set up, you [...]
August 22, 2008 – 11:54 pm
In the course of working on WordPress, and plugins and such for WordPress, I frequently find myself at a loss to remember the name of constants provided by the system. Hey, isn’t there a constant for such-and-such directory?
I did a bit of grepping and parsing just now, and in the hopes that it might [...]
August 12, 2008 – 10:08 am
If you’ve been using WordPress for any amount of time, you’ve probably come across a plugin that asks you to add something to your template. The instructions will say something like:
Insert the following into your theme files where you want the plugin’s widget to appear:
<?php my_plugin_widget() ?>
The slightly more intelligent instructions will understand that [...]
August 12, 2008 – 9:37 am
There’s a new version of the Quiz plugin (a.k.a. “Comment Quiz”). The plugin requires commenters to answer a question before the comment is posted.
Significant improvements in 1.1, including a native meta box in the edit post/page screen, and the ability to have more than one acceptable answers to a question.
Check it out.
August 11, 2008 – 2:44 pm
New version 0.4 of the Log Deprecated Calls plugin.
Now it has an option to toggle logging to the PHP Log, or a table in the database, or both. If logging to the database you can view the records on the admin page (under Plugins->Deprecated Calls. It also has a test function, and if [...]
Otto has released his Automatic Timezone Plugin as part of the current WordPress plugin competition. In addition to being a handy plugin, it comes with a significant bonus for plugin authors.
In addition to its basic function, the code is designed to serve as a tutorial of sorts, showing authors how to use some very [...]
New plugin for Y’all. This one is of particular interest to plugin authors and theme designers (and… nobody else).
Activate it, and any time WordPress calls a function or file that has been deprecated, a message will be sent to your PHP log file that identifies exactly where the call came from and what to [...]
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