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 …

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 …

Post Plugins Almost out of Beta

I’ve just published version 2.5b15 of the post plugins: Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments. Thank you to all who have found bugs and especially for those who have tested and re-tested when I couldn’t reproduce the bug myself. There have been particular problems with the installation of Similar Posts on some …