‘Buyer beware!’ I’ve been editing the pages to do with the plugins I wrote for WordPress some time ago, making it clear they are officially unsupported (having spent years unofficially unsupported!). That’s what I’ve been saying on each page: Caveat Emptor. Though no one is actually buying them people are still downloading and using my …
Category Archives: WP Plugins
Post-Plugins 2.5.0.11
I’ve just posted a plugin update with some requested features and an obscure bug-fix (or a fix for an obscure bug?). a new option to include attachment posts in the listings a new output tag, {authorurl}, to point to the archive of an author’s posts a beefed up {php} tag which can now include other …
Image Shadow: A New WordPress Plugin
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.
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 …
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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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 …
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 …