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December 28 2004
Bookmarks | WordPress Bookmarks: A few good links
UploadBin
Kind of like pastebin - but for files, and Mark offers it up so you can download and host it on your own server.
wp-hashcash
A version of Spam Stopgam Extreme.
[seen on a lot of sites, but most recently on PhotoMatt and Weblogtoolscollection]
WordPress "Suggest" plugin
Kind of like "Google's Suggest" feature - for WordPress Searches.
[blogginpro]
WP-lists Plugin
Centralized List management (through wordpress?)
[blogginpro]
December 24 2004
WordPress Bookmarks to Plugins: WP-Gallery Plugin 0.1
The WP-Gallery Plugin 0.1 offers a nice, easy way to include your Gallery albums and photos within a WP powered blog.
December 22 2004
WordPress: WordPress 1.2.2 is Available!
Earlier this week, the 1.2.2 version of WordPress was released. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues and is recommended for all 1.2 users. More about the upgrade in the WP Development blog. Wondering what files changed? Here's a list.
December 9 2004
Call for help: Tools for Web Development on the Mac?
The last time I did any extensive web dev on the mac was about... oh, maybe SIX! years ago. Eek, I feel old. In any case, I've been doing everything on the PC since then, and while I have a number of really great tools on the PC that I like, I'm clueless when it comes to mac tools.
On the PC, the tool that I use the most is Dreamweaver. Not so much for it's "WYSIWYG" feature, that doesn't work too well for me, but it does auto-complete HTML tags, it knows php functions and can tell me what data types I have to pass in, does code highlighting. I even use it to make my stylesheets, because I can get it to pull up the "correct" way to write out a style definition if I forget (which is often).
So what tools do I need to do development on the Mac? I've downloaded a trial copy of Westciv Stylemaster which seems to give me what I need for writing stylesheets. I have BBEdit, but it doesn't do the auto-complete stuff like dreamweaver does (of if it DOES, I can't find it!).
Cany anyone make some recomendations? (Post in the comments please)
December 7 2004
WordPress: Lessons Learned: WP security bug
There's a pretty serious security bug with WP 1.2.1 (and the current 1.3 alpha), one that can make it so your blog is basically unusable (not permanently, as far as I can tell) but still - if you're using WordPress you should probably make this change.
In any case, here is how you fix the problem. It's a very easy fix. If you can search for text on a page, you can fix this problem.
I hesitated posting this, because I don't want to "start a panic" - nor do I want to give instructions on how to hack WP blogs. But I do think it's important that people go ahead and make this change.
[brought to my attention by Christine]
FireFox Extension Bookmarks: Tab Preferences
Need to bookmark this so I can find it again...
QuickTabPrefToggle
Adds some great preferences/options relating to tabs, etc. (for example, can force links that would ordinarily open in a new window in a tab in the background.
The author of that extension also has a few others too that look interesting. Here's the extensions homepage
December 1 2004
WordPress Bookmarks to Plugins: User Comments Plugin
Just saw this on the hackers mailing list:
User Comments Plugin
This plugin will moderate comments from users who are not registered and logged in users of the site.
November 25 2004
WordPress Bookmarks to Plugins: iTunes plugin for WordPress
WP iTunes
Display what's currently playing on your iTunes on your blog.
[via Weblog Tools Collection]
November 22 2004
WordPress: Lessons Learned: Conditional text despite content not being echoed
One of the things Christine had asked me to add to pixelog, was, when no "previous" entry was available - to have the text still show up, but be "greyed out". I remembered a post Alex King had made on the hackers mailing list about capturing the text that some functions typically echo into a variable. What he suggested was to do the following:
<?php
ob_start();
the_title();
$my_title = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
print($my_title);
?>
This was the trick I needed. Here's the code I used do the "greyed out" effect. (The issue here, if you don't know - is that next_post() will simply echo nothing if there is no next post)
<?php
//determine if there is a next post
ob_start();
next_post();
$nextpost = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
//now print the appropriate link or greyed out text
if ($nextpost) {
next_post('« % | ','previous','no');
} else { ?>
<span class="grey">« previous</span> |
<?php } ?>
(Yes I know I'm using the text "previous" with the next_post function... that had to do with her preference of displaying the photos)
WordPress Bookmarks to Plugins: External Links Wordpress Plugin
You know how some people have those little icons next to their links - and you can do that with CSS auto-magically on all links, but it doesn't work with IE. Here's a plugin that will add a class to all links so you can have that little icon show up for IE as well.
External Links Wordpress Plugin
[via del.icio.us]
