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

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.

I’ve just released the latest version of WordPress Admin Bar. The new version features themes, the ability to hide items, and much, much more!

WordPress theme developers: please consider bundling your own custom admin bar theme with your WordPress theme. It’s a much slicker experience if the admin bar matches the theme. For details, check out the plugin’s theme API. It’s just a single function call and then some CSS.

For those that haven’t noticed, I released a new version of Clean Archives Reloaded yesterday. It’s a major reworking of the plugin and it now requires WordPress 2.5 (due to functions it uses).

It’s now faster than before (I saw page generation times drop by about 10% on my test blog), an options page to configure the plugin, and much, much more.

So, upgrade today! :)

Someone came on to #wordpress yesterday looking for a plugin to only allow registered users to view their blog. Many plugins to do this exist, but after glancing over their code, I realized none of the ones I looked at were perfect. None of them allowed the blog owner to allow guest to view their feeds and people could easily get around the plugin by adding wp-login.php somewhere in the URL.

So, I wrote my own version. It has an options page and should be 100% accurate.

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’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!