More stuff I wrote randomly that I’m releasing publicly for the hell of it.

• Disable Theme Preview — while the theme preview feature added in WordPress 2.6 is definitely cool, I find it rather annoying on my blogs. This is because I already know what the themes look like but am just needing to quickly switch the theme. So, this plugin gracefully disables it.
• Direct Image URLs For Galleries — makes it so when you click on the thumbnail in the output of a , it takes you directly to the fullsize image rather than a page containing the medium size image.

Also now available on WordPress.org: More To The Top

I’m in the middle of recoding my other site and in the process, I’ve had to write multiple custom plugins to accomplish my needs.

I thought I’d release two of them to the public on the off-chance anyone would find them useful. They are:

• Allow Numeric Stubs: allows for children Pages to have numbers as stubs
• Breadcrumb Titles For Pages: makes wp_title() output all ancestors when viewing a Page

Yep, that official WordPress App for the iPhone and iPod Touch that I mentioned earlier is now available!

You can download it right here. I’m off to do it myself!

I just thought I’d give a little status update on my usage of Defensio.

Since March 23rd, Defensio has caught over 250000 spams on my blog. Here’s the breakdown:

• 250841 spam
• 608 legitimate comments
• 89 false negatives (undetected spam)
• 52 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)

Seems WordPress 2.6 reworked the CSS and such for the widgets page in order to fix the issues that had been occurring with widgets not dropping into the right order. However that means the widget editor screen of my plugin is now broken and it was now just pointed out to me.

I’ll try to update as soon as I can and eventually see if I can just resort to making it so you edit the dashboard via Design -> Widgets like I should have done in the first place.

WordPress 2.6 was released today and features lots of great new features (see following video). Unlike WordPress 2.0.x (2.0.11 currently) but like the 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x branches, the 2.5.x branch is now unsupported and will not be updated with new security patches. You should not put off updating. There is nothing to be scared of and it is unlikely any of your plugins or your theme will break. So do yourself a favor and upgrade!

One of those features is the default Gravatar picker I helped write. If you are a theme developer and wish to add your own default Gravatar to the list, check out my previous post.

Thought I’d share a little bit of code I use to easily translate any webpage I’m viewing into English in one click.

Open your Bookmarks and add a new Bookmark to the “Bookmarks Toolbar” folder in Firefox (sorry IE users, you’re on your own). Name it anything (I did “Translate”) and for the location, enter this:

javascript:void(location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate?tl=en&u='+location.href)

That should make a new button show up in your toolbar and when you click it, it will take you to Google and translate the website into English.

As awesome as WPhone is, it is now officially obsolete thanks to the official iPhone app. It will be available for free from the Apple store and it will of course even be open-source!

I know what I’m installing on my iPod Touch!

Yep, right now Defensio’s spam checking servers are down yet again. Luckily the Defensio plugin sticks them in the moderation queue, but that means legitimate comments are getting stuck there too. Seems like at least once a month they have downtime issues. :(

325 comments in my moderation queue and counting…