There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft. This prevents you from doing things like creating a … [Read more...] about New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options
Plugins
Content Audit update: new reset option!
There's a new reset button at the bottom of the Content Audit plugin's settings screen. If you're embarking on your second (or third) review of your site's content, you can use this to clear the previous status attributes (outdated, redundant, etc.), the notes, and the assigned … [Read more...] about Content Audit update: new reset option!
HTML Import update: HTML in custom fields
The HTML Import plugin got a new feature this week: custom fields now have an option to allow HTML. This is useful for custom fields that are more than just a number or a short phrase. I worked on a site that had unique information in every page's sidebar, and we needed to import … [Read more...] about HTML Import update: HTML in custom fields
The Story Length Taxonomy, a proof of concept for online fiction publications
As the Hugo nomination deadline was closing in, Tempest and I were chatting on Twitter, as we do, and agreed that it's silly that it's so difficult for readers to know which of the finicky short fiction categories a work falls into. Unless we happen to follow the authors and … [Read more...] about The Story Length Taxonomy, a proof of concept for online fiction publications
New WordPress plugin: User Contact Control
I have unintentionally written another plugin. I was working on the user profile chapter for the new edition, and I was trying to find plugins that allowed people to edit user profile fields without writing any code. There are a number of them for adding whole new fields, but … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: User Contact Control
How to do damn near anything with WordPress
A couple of the plugins listed here show up on Extend with warnings about not having been updated in the last two years. You can ignore those warnings. They haven't been updated because they were written correctly in the first place. Best Plugin for...? Great big list of best … [Read more...] about How to do damn near anything with WordPress
Selective Importers
I've released another plugin! Selective Importers was commissioned by Pressbooks, and is basically a clone of the official WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr importers with one major difference: it puts the incoming content into a queue, and from there you can choose which posts … [Read more...] about Selective Importers
new features in Content Audit: boss view, per-post expiration dates
I've updated Content Audit with two big new features. The first, suggested by Shelley Keith, is the "boss view": an overview of your content's status, with a breakdown of who's responsible for fixing it. Check out the last screenshot for an example, on a site with two editors … [Read more...] about new features in Content Audit: boss view, per-post expiration dates
HTML Import now handles documents
HTML Import 2.2 is now available, and it now handles linked documents! 2.0 introduced the image import feature, which uploads linked images to the WordPress media library. In 2.2, there's an additional option to import linked files of any type. You can specify the allowed … [Read more...] about HTML Import now handles documents
Delicious XML Importer plugin and Twenty Links theme updated
If you use Delicious, you've probably noticed that AVOS has started rolling out some changes. As a result, I've updated the Delicious XML Importer plugin and the Twenty Links theme. Between the importer and the theme, you can set up a pretty great alternative to Delicious on your … [Read more...] about Delicious XML Importer plugin and Twenty Links theme updated
