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 [...]
One of the most powerful features of WordPress is the huge community of developers making plugins that extend the software far beyond what the core application provides. It also allows people to add just what they want to use, rather than having a single bloated homogeneous download. There are drawbacks as well, of [...]
Mark Jaquith has put up a nice article on “How to write a solid and stable WordPress plugin“. It’s more of a rough overview than a detail piece, but he promises more details down the line in separate articles.
This is worth looking at if you write WP plugins, even if you’re pretty experienced — [...]
I’ve updated the Comment Spotlight plugin for WordPress. Changes in 1.1 include:
Fully WP 2.6 compatible
Lots of code cleanup
Fixed spotlight image so it’s NOT inside the first paragraph
Spotlighted comments add “clear: both” div to end so spot images don’t extend past comment bottom
Moved Settings screen to Settings menu (was in Comments menu)
Added direct link to [...]
Version 2.1.2 of my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress is up.
The biggest change from the user end is that localizations (i.e. translations) now work. (The had worked previously, but broke somewhere along the way.) It includes French and Italian translations.
If anyone out there would like to translate the plugin for others who speak [...]
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