Dec 15th2009-12-16T00:59:20ZM jS
For security reasons, the UI to enable oEmbed’s discovery ability was removed from WordPress today. It’d be too easy for a novice to accidentally embed some bad HTML into their blog if they posted the URL to a malicious website.
However if you know what you’re doing, feel free to install my Enable oEmbed Discovery plugin which will re-enable the feature. 
Dec 3rd2009-12-04T06:40:15ZM jS
I am in the early stages on recoding my Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin from scratch and in the process I will be replacing JW Player with a free and open-source alternative. JW Player is really great, but sadly it’s released under a non-commercial license which just won’t do.
So please, if you know of any good Flash players that will do FLV, MP4, etc. please leave a comment with a link!
Here’s my list so far of players to compare and pick between: (I’ll update this list with suggestions)
Dec 3rd2009-12-04T06:33:55ZM jS
If you’re a WordPress.com blogger and like posting code, then you’ll be happy to know that the latest version of my SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin is now live on WordPress.com. Enjoy!
Nov 8th2009-11-09T05:49:31ZM jS
I’ve released a new version of my SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin. It’s not a recode of the plugin, however it is a major overhaul of the plugin. It features an update to the highlighting package (with new languages and parameters) and other various things. Here’s the full changelog:
Version 2.3.0
Major overhaul, mainly to extend flexibility so that this plugin could be used on WordPress.com without actual code modification (only actions/filters are used instead to modify it).
- Updated SyntaxHighlighter package to v2.1.364. Highlights of the changelog include:
- ColdFusion brush (aliases:
coldfusion, cf) - Erlang brush (aliases:
erl, erlang) - Objective-C brush (aliases:
objc, obj-c) - Eclipse theme
padlinenumbers parameter. Set it to false for no line number padding, true for automatic padding, or an integer (number) for forced padding.rb alias for Ruby
- Commenters can now use this plugin to post code.
- Plugin’s shortcodes now work inside of the text widget again. Requires WordPress 2.9+ though.
- Overhaul of the TinyMCE plugin that assists in keeping your code sound when switching editor views. Thanks to Andrew Ozz!
- This plugin’s stylesheets are now dynamically loaded. If they aren’t needed, they aren’t loaded.
- Lots of sanitization of shortcode attributes. Invalid keys/values are no longer used.
- Chinese translation thanks to Hinker Liu. Will need updating for v2.3.0.
- New filter to control what shortcodes are registered. Used by WordPress.com to trim down the number of them.
- Saving of user’s settings is now done using
register_setting() instead of manually handing $_POST. Yay! - By default, a post meta is used to mark posts as being encoded using the 2.x encoding format. This is bad for a site like WordPress.com. You can use the new
syntaxhighlighter_pre_getcodeformat filter to return 1 or 2 (based on say post_modified). See SyntaxHighlighter:get_code_format() for more details. Don’t forget to remove_action( 'save_post', array(&$SyntaxHighlighter, 'mark_as_encoded'), 10, 2 ); to stop the post meta from being added. - New
syntaxhighlighter_precode filter to modify raw code before it’s highlighted. - New
syntaxhighlighter_democode filter to modify example code on the settings page.
