UPDATE #2: Try v5.4.3. I’ve heard multiple reports it’s working fine for those who tried it. Let me know.

UPDATE: I just committed version 5.4.2. Try this and see if it fixes any problems. I couldn’t reproduce any errors on demand, but I made some code improvements to hopefully fix the problem.

I updated Viper’s Video Quicktags before WordPress 2.5 came out and it was 100% compatible then. Infact, it still is fully compatible with WordPress as far as I can tell.

However! It doesn’t seem to be compatible with many other plugins out there, namely ones that use the “ButtonSnap” PHP class that allows for easy adding of buttons to the classic style editor and old versions of TinyMCE. I’m working on fixing it, but it’s hard to debug it.

Meanwhile, the following work around worked for me: click the “Deactivate All Plugins” button, activate my plugin FIRST, then activate all the other plugins.

Thanks for being patient while I sort this out.

I’m currently trying to debug a problem I’m having with my blog, so all plugins are disabled for the moment. So, if you were expecting to see all my posts on my archive, my weather, videos in posts, etc., you’ll have to wait.

Just thought I’d let you know what was up.

EDIT: Okay, everything is back to normal. Discovered the problem wasn’t plugin related.

I’ve used the WP-Dash plugin on my blog for over 2 and a half years. One of the very first plugins I wrote was a “latest spam” widget for it.

Well, with WordPress finally introducing a built-in widgitized dashboard, I’ve decided it’s finally time to ditch WP-Dash. However, the new dashboard doesn’t show you recent spam, a thing I like to keep an eye on to make sure no legitimate comments get marked as spam. So, I wrote a plugin to add one.

Dashboard: Latest Spam is now available for download from WordPress.org.

I’ve released a non-beta version of my previously mentioned plugin. It addresses a couple bugs found and has some minor feature improvements.

It’s now available for download at WordPress.org.

WordPress 2.5 introduces a whole new dashboard that features widgets. However, it doesn’t come with a method or re-ordering or removing widgets from your dashboard. So I decided to write one.

Dashboard Widget Manager, currently in alpha/beta, creates a new menu page in the style of the new sidebar widget manager. You can drag to reorder the widgets or even click on “Remove” to hide them on your dashboard.

If you’d like to try it out, you can download it and stick it on your server. Please just make sure to give me feedback!

WordPress 2.5 RC1 is now available for those looking to test it. It’s very stable and should be bug free. Infact, I’m running it on this blog as we speak! :)

However, there’s one “required” plugin for those upgrading — Remove Max Width. Even though I and other users protested, the main developers and designers felt a fixed width of the admin area would be best. However, on my 1600×1200 monitor (soon to be even wider at 1920×1200!), that results in TONS of whitespace. This plugin adds some CSS to make it full width again. Very handy.

Ozh has an excellent article on WP 2.5’s new styling features and how easy it is to make your own color scheme.

I’ve updated my Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin to support WordPress 2.5 (out today hopefully) as well as other bugfixes and minor updates.

As always, it’s available for download from WordPress.org.

The latest version of Clean Archives Reloaded is now available.

It’s a complete recode from scratch featuring a queryless (maybe one query in certain cases) generation, the use of jQuery which comes with WordPress (no more MooTools aka moo.fx), and much, much more.

The big thing though is that it’s compatible with WordPress 2.1+. The old version became broken when 2.1.0 came out (or was it 2.3? I can’t remember). Either way, I coded it under WordPress 2.5 (due out Monday) and it should be relatively future proof meaning it won’t break when the next version comes out.

Check it out in action on my archives page!

EDIT: Nevermind. I’ve gone ahead and released the new version.

Do you use my Clean Archives Reloaded plugin? Then please read this post. The rest of you are welcome to as well.

I’m currently recoding the plugin from scratch to use less queries (something like 1/2 as many) and no manual SQL queries, only WordPress functions. What’s this mean for you? Well, it’ll work in WordPress 2.5 due out this Monday (the 10th) and should work infinitely into the future, no matter what part of WordPress changes.

However, I’m also retooling the HTML and styling of the plugin. This is where I need feedback. What markup are you looking for? The old one was a series of <ul>’s while I currently have it as nested lists (a big list with each month as an individual month).

Check out my public sandbox here: http://www.viper007bond.com/tests/clean-archives-reloaded/ (as of the time of this post, it still needs some CSS padding to look better)

You’ll also note that while I’ve kept the expand/collapse feature (it’ll be an option), I’ve gotten rid of the accordion feature. This was by accident, but after taking a look at it, I decided I kinda like it better. It’s also now all powered by jQuery which comes bundled with WordPress rather than MooTools, previously known as moo.fx.

So please, if you use this plugin, please leave feedback on this post as to what you’d like to see in the next version!