How to Give Your Plugin Settings a Submenu

While rebuilding the posts plugins for WordPress 2.5 I became frustrated by the excessive length of their settings pages and more than a little envious of other plugins which managed to split their settings into subpages accessible from a submenu. I pored through more opaque code than is comfortable and eventually decided I should try …

Novice Notes on the Official WordPress Plugin Directory

As I’ve said I’ve been wrestling with the plugin directory and, as I suspected, the trouble is down to my lack of smarts. Two things to be aware of if you are wanting to host your plugins at the official site: When they say that you should name your tags/releases using only numbers and periods …

Still Fighting the Official Plugins Directory…

I haven’t got a response from the official WordPress plugin directory to work out why the proper instructions are not displaying and meanwhile I am getting a lot of folks wondering what on earth is going on and why the post plugins are no longer working. Here are some emergency directions for the interim… First …

WordPress 2.5 and Automatic Plugin Updates

Update: Check out this post for some extra instructions. Well I’m wrestling with the new ability of WordPress 2.5 to notify when a fresh version of a plugin is available on the official directory. Up until now I haven’t used the directory but today I tried to get my post plugins up and running over …

WordPress Plugins Updated: Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments

Finally! I have posted the updated (2.5) versions of my post plugins and they are full of enhancements and even the odd fix… Check them out from the plugins page but please take note: They are still beta releases and, given the number of modifications I have made, I am sure I will have a …

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 …

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 — …

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 …