I think I've hosed the LJ crossposter — or rather, I've upgraded it, and the new version is hosed. ETA: Seems to be working, although I lost one post from LJ in the process. Technology, el yay. … [Read more...] about Just testing, pls disregard.
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Another WordPress plugin: Assign Missing Categories
I've written another WordPress plugin as a result of one of my client projects. After I imported old blog posts from Blogger into WordPress, all the Blogger tags had become WordPress categories. That was a huge number of categories, so I used the category-to-tag converter on the … [Read more...] about Another WordPress plugin: Assign Missing Categories
New WordPress plugin: Post and Page Excerpt Widgets
Post and Page Excerpt Widgets let you display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. For some reason, page excerpts were taken out of WordPress somewhere along the way, so the widget requires the Page Excerpt plugin to handle those. If The Excerpt Reloaded is installed, the … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: Post and Page Excerpt Widgets
Essential WordPress plugins
I've set up a lot of new WordPress sites lately, and I've come up with my own homebrew installation package. All but one of these are admin tools; I don't have a standard list of theme additions because every site is so different. Akismet is the only spam blocker I've ever … [Read more...] about Essential WordPress plugins
New WordPress plugin: No Place Like Home
For the last few versions, WordPress has allowed you to specify a page as the site's home page, rather than the usual list of recent posts. However, in the list of pages, it doesn't indicate which one is the home page. This annoys me. So I wrote a plugin. Since it relies on CSS … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: No Place Like Home
Important note about the WordPress 2.5 media manager
If you don't want your thumbnails to get distorted, you need to change WordPress 2.5′s default setting before you upload your photos into the media manager. Go to Settings > Miscellaneous and UNcheck the "Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are … [Read more...] about Important note about the WordPress 2.5 media manager
Fixing WordPress 2.5
If you hate the new Write area in WordPress 2.5, check out this mod. It works beautifully with Fluency, which itself fixes a lot of things I didn't like. As soon as Fluency supports drop-down menus, my world will be a happy, happy place. … [Read more...] about Fixing WordPress 2.5
WordPress plugin: Comment Author Checklist
I've written a WordPress plugin for my critique group. It gives you a new template tag, , that generates a list of registered users with the names of those who have commented on the post (as well as the post's author) crossed off. See the plugin page for more details1. This is … [Read more...] about WordPress plugin: Comment Author Checklist
Quickly, because I haven’t done my words yet tonight…
Went to Refresh B/CS tonight. 'Twas good. Among other things, Erica handed me a slightly different way of thinking about the political/class aspects of the novel, which will come in handy during revisions — and maybe marketing, if I decide to allow the damn thing out of the … [Read more...] about Quickly, because I haven’t done my words yet tonight…
Places and faces of Turkey
While I was gallivanting around the country, my mom was patiently posting the photos from her recent trip to Turkey. In fact, I noticed that she had gotten started while I was in Rochester, and I was able to use her blog in my WordPress presentation: "So, how easy is it to set up … [Read more...] about Places and faces of Turkey
