libertus

Copied with permission - original here. Outreach markup applied by myself, in an unusual manner, to make the links visible only when you click on the associated tag-type on the Outreach control panel.
(more…)

Now that Zeitgeist has been released on WPPlugins.org, its page here has been set aside for the release manual and discussion. This post contains the contents and comments from the pre-release page.

(more…)

I have released a spam-fighting plugin for WordPress, based on Akismet over at WPPlugins.org.

You can now reply to other people’s comments as well as the main post. Have a go.

Last night I received one of my usual junk mails; “Microsoft Download Notifications: August 25, 2006″. Normally I skim then delete but this one caught my eye. Something I’ve been waiting for is now in a state I can download and use - the first “Release Candidate” of Internet Explorer 7.

I’m not fan of Microsoft, having had a long and occasionally arduous relationship with their products. On the other hand, I’m sure the majority of people using the internet do so thorough Microsoft’s magic window, so as a professional web developer I am obliged to investigate and support it as best I can. IE6 was dreadful - it worked but lacked support for some important web standards. IE7, I am told, is standards-compliant, so I am expecting it to work as well as, if not better than, the competing standards-compliant browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.

Here are my experiences.

(more…)

<span xml:lang=”zh” lang=”zh”>中文</span>

Me too, mate

(more…)

“Smiley” Peformance Monitor plugin for WordPress

As there have been reports of dramatic slow-downs after upgrading to WordPress 2.0.4, and my blog is still running 2.0.3, naturally I wish to investigate these reports prior to upgrading. I could wait for the WordPress developers to do this, but I’m impatient. WordPress 2.0.4 contains a critical security fix that I wish to apply, among others. I don’t want to sacrifice performance for a tiny amount of extra safety.

I previously investigated the memory use of WordPress 2.0.2. I shall build upon that work to introduce execution timestamps and database queries into the performance graph. I shall then directly compare the performance of 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 on the same dataset - my blog, of course!

(more…)

Or, in this particular case, a futile attempt at outright deception.

Menu and plugin tweaks indeed! If I believed that, I might never have noticed the ever-so-vital change to line 364 of admin-functions.php.

Today I launched a plugin for WordPress 2 to provide fine-grained and broad-brush access control over your posts, using the existing password-protection system, custom post meta-data and options.

The availability of Access Control plugin for WordPress was first made public by way of this post on the wp-hackers mailing list.

Automatically Backup All Wordpress Databases On A Server by Niklas Lindblad.