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
1 comment Print Version December 16th, 2007
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 content, title and tags (new) to get the most relevant posts for your particular blog. That’s meant some major architectural changes which I am trying to test before releasing. Also, since tag-based relevance is now included I’ve scrapped the ability to add keywords to a custom field. I have actually never heard of anyone using the feature but I’m bracing myself for a host of users rising up in revolt!
Any feature requests for upcoming versions?
3 comments Print Version December 13th, 2007
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.
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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.
Add comment Print Version October 25th, 2007
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 — all you have to do is provide a snippet of CSS to apply to the special comments.
4 comments Print Version October 20th, 2007
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.
1 comment Print Version October 14th, 2007
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 little better.
2 comments Print Version October 9th, 2007
Programming |Thoughts |WP Plugins
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. Please check them out and give me any feedback.
Add comment Print Version September 27th, 2007
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.
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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 to get to grips with the sacrament’s underlying theology and found Jake Empereur’s book Prophetic Anointing: God’s Call to the Sick, the Elderly and the Dying to be really helpful.
The Sacrament of the Sick can’t promise healing–indeed for a long while it was only offered to the dying!–but it must pray for it confidently. How do you handle that? Empereur’s argument (as I recall) is that anointing recognises the prophetic vocation of sickness. I remember the homily divided the congregation (of classmates) right down the middle. Some thought it was powerful; other’s hated it. Luckily the professor fell in the first group…
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Rob Marsh, SJ is a Jesuit interested in theology, spirituality, computers and the web. Here you'll find homilies, reflections, essays on theology and spirituality, and the odd bit of code. more...