October 31, 2008 – 3:11 pm
I received a comment recently tipping me off to a bug in my Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress. In certain cases, the system will show one particular blog no matter which address you go to. If you’re having this problem and you’re using the $vusers[] list, try changing the order of the $vusers[] list. This [...]
September 26, 2008 – 11:01 am
I just uploaded the new version 2.2 of my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress. Improvements: German translation (Danke Mattias… or is it “Dank“?) Updated the .po files for people creating or updating translations Improvements to how the system handles changes to the contents of the “styles” folder. A menu icon for those using Ozh’s Admin [...]
September 10, 2008 – 12:54 pm
In recent changes to WordPress code, users are more than ever able to customize folder and file locations. [Edit: Refers to WordPress 2.6] The wp-config.php file can now be located one directory up from the one containing WordPress. The wp-content folder can be moved arbitrarily, as can (separately) the plugins folder. What’s a poor plugin [...]
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 designed [...]
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 could use [...]
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 [...]
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.