Though I’m not up to preaching these days I thought I might enlist the Loyola Hall Team to give their reflections occasionally. Today’s offering is from Edel McClean. Readings: Isaiah 35:1-6,10; Psalm 145:6-10; James 5:7-10; Matt 11:2-11 Advent is all about faith and hope, and our readings today don’t let us down on that front. …
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Due an Update to WordPress Post Plugins
Version 2.3.7 of the post plugins should be out soon. I’ve been making a bunch of little changes to provide some asked for features. The delay has been in the next version of Similar Posts which has undergone some major revisions including stemming and global word weighting. It also lets you configure the balance of …
Post Plugins and More on Tags
Version 2.3.5 of the plugins is a rebuild to avoid all the admin page code being loaded when not needed. It also allows posts to be matched according to the current post’s tags. Update Version 2.3.6 restores the widgetiness I managed to remove in 2.3.5! Please if you downloaded a version 2.3.5 plugin download the …
WordPress Post Plugins Now Widgets
I have long intended to make my post plugins into widgets but have only just got to it. In fact it turned out to be an easy process. Version 2.3.4 of the plugins also adds the option to exclude or include the current post from the output.
WordPress Plugin: Highlight Author Comments
Just posted a rather simple plugin to highlight the comments made by the author of a post among all the other comments. I’ve seen lots of ways of doing the job but they all seem to involve hacking the code of your template or of WordPress files. The new plugin does the job automatically — …
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WordPress, Tagging, and the Post Plugins
Version 2.3.3 beta of my post plugins adds support for WordPress 2.3’s built-in tagging. You can find recent posts with a particular tag, similar posts that have any of a bunch of tags, random posts sharing all specified tags, or whatever permutation you like. The new version also adds the much requested ability to include …
Fix Some Things, Break Some Things
In updating my post plugins to work with WordPress 2.3 I managed to break various things too. Versions 2.3.2, just posted, fix a bad interaction between tags and categories and correct issues with excluded categories. I might be able to extend the plugins to do something useful with tags now that I understand them a …
WordPress 2.3 Plugins Fixed
Well I hope so… I did some work on my 5 post plugins, uploaded them to my site (to check they still worked under WP < 2.3), upgraded to WP 2.3, and, fingers crossed, everything seems functional. I will modify the docs, package the plugins, and post them for download in the next few minutes. …
Posts Plugins Problems in WP 2.3
Sorry to all the people letting me know that the new WordPress breaks Similar Posts and (maybe) my other plugins. I’ve been out of touch due to my CFS problems but I will do my best to post some updates in the next day or two to fix the issues.
Anointing the Sick
First, something from a safe distance: I wrote the homily that follows as part of a class in Celebrational Style (that’s a course in leading worship) while I was at JSTB. The assignment was to create, preside at, and preach for a service of sacramental anointing outside a Eucharistic context. To do that I had …