Jun 16th
Just a head’s up to anyone that needs me — I have to be moved out by the 30th (that’s two weeks, ugh). I have no clue where I’m moving to (I’m trying to find an apartment), if I’ll have Internet or what (I need it of course), and so forth.
And before then, I gotta spend major amounts of time cleaning up 9 years worth of crap in this house so we can move out ASAP as well as time spent on my new job.
In short, I may be MIA for a while.
Jun 12th
So I tried to upload another blog on this server via the automatic upgrade and it apparently freaked out and apparently it deleted all of my plugins and uploads for this blog. I have no idea why, but it did.
Waiting on my friend who runs this server for me to find a backup, but until then this blog is mostly broken.
UPDATE: Turns out automatic file backups were never set up, so the most recent backup we could find was from exactly 2 months ago. I think I already reinstalled all of the new plugins I had installed since then, but I’ll need to reupload any uploads I’ve done in the past 2 months. Please report any issues via this post.
Jun 12th
Now you too can show the WordPress download counter on your website! This plugin adds a widget to your blog that shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.
No demo here on my blog as my current theme isn’t widgetized and I haven’t made the plugin work with anything but widgets. I have plans for the future though to allow you to display the counter anywhere.
For further details, check out the plugin’s homepage.
Jun 11th
jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries v2.0.0 has been recoded to use a new and better lightbox script. This one resembles the original and infamous lightbox script, but is jQuery powered because jQuery is awesome. It also works with WordPress 2.8 (the previous version of my plugin may not have, I’m not sure).
Here’s a demo:
Images by Microsoft
Jun 8th
I’ve decided to shut down my support forums today in favor of the WordPress.org forums.
The problem with me running my own forums is that people had to register there separately to post and they relied on just me basically to provide support. By opting to provide support via the WordPress.org forums, they probably don’t have to sign up for yet another account and best of all they can receive support from other knowledgeable users rather than just me.
So if you need support for one of my plugins, please visit it’s page on the WordPress.org Plugins area (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-stub-here/) and then click on “See what others are saying…” on the right side. That’ll take you to a new thread forum with the tag field already filled in with my plugin’s name (if you don’t properly tag your thread, I won’t see it).
Jun 1st
Threw together another plugin the other day.
Twitter Tools is an excellent plugin for posting notifications of new blog posts to Twitter. However Twitter Tools just sends the URL to the new post normally which is then shortened by Twitter itself to a bit.ly short link. This is done anonymously.
This plugin will replace the normal URLs sent by Twitter Tools to Twitter with bit.ly URLs tied to your bit.ly account. You can then easily track the number of clicks from your bit.ly profile.
For more details, check out the plugin’s homepage.
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name's Alex, although I'm more commonly known as Viper007Bond (or just Viper). I work for Automattic and I blog here about WordPress stuff and various interesting things I find. You can read more about me on my about page.
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