I’ve released a new plugin, Image Shadow, which creates soft, realistic drop-shadows (frames too) for the jpeg images in your posts. Thanks to David at PhotoLinkLove for the inspiration. You can see the plugin in action with the beautiful photographs on his blog.
Yearly Archives: 2008
Post Plugins Ready for WordPress 2.6
I’ve just posted new releases (v. 2.5.0.10) of the various post plugins. There are some bug fixes and several developments to Similar Posts including an optional new algorithm for choosing key terms to match and the ability to override automatic matching by making manual links between posts. I’ve also taken account of the new post-versioning …
Still Adapting to Automatic WordPress Plugin Updates
I’m realising how differently plugin development goes when my plugins are hosted with WordPress Extend. Having the SVN repository has really simplified some things and made maintenance a lot less time consuming but I’m finding a big downside. My plugins seem to be perpetually in beta! I guess before I could upload a new feature …
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Post Plugins 2.5.0
Why does this release of Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts and Recent Comments get a clean new number instead of being called a beta? I guess it’s arbitrary! I can’t stop tinkering so in a sense the plugins are perpetually in beta but on the other hand bug reports are drying up (apart from …
Monday Week 6 Year II
Edel McClean offers these reflections: Readings: James 1:1-11, Psalm 118, Mark 8:11-13 The liturgical title for today is Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time. A quick look at ordinary in the dictionary tells us ‘unexceptional, plain, uninteresting’. It seems a little like what the Pharisees are accusing Jesus of in our …
Similar Posts and Pentecost
Similar Posts v.2.5b28 has just been posted. Working on Similar Posts I have learned more than I care to know about the vagaries of MySQL, PHP, and Unicode. One particular issue that has so far resisted my attempts has been the satisfactory handling of content in Chinese, Korean, or Japanese (CJK). Similar Posts uses the …
Some Big(-gish) Changes to the Post Plugins
Since bug reports for the post plugins have dwindled to a slow drip I thought I ought to make some substantial changes in the latest version (2.5b25) and get the flow going again… In previous versions the {image} tag did its resizing just by changing the <img> tag’s width and height attributes. Now, in addition, …
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Oops… Ever-So-Slightly Fifty…
It’s not as if you do anything to make it happen but all of a sudden here it is — 50! So far the day is turning out a lot of fun…
Feeling So Very Forty-Nine
Wooo hoooo!
New Beta for Similar Posts Plugin
The latest beta (2.5b22) attempts to address some of the issues users have been running into when upgrading. It fixes various conflicts with various configurations and tries to be give the upgrader as little work as possible. I will be very interested to hear whether the attempt has worked! If you run into problems (new …