I originally wrote this for Steve in order to display a random book link for his blog. I made it generic so that it will display a random link every time a new WordPress page is displayed. You can enter a list of ASIN numbers into the widget and it will pick one at random [...]

I guess I automatically installed WP 3.0 beta here. I don’t see much difference – yet.

I tried installing the new 2.9 release of WordPress to one of my blogs hosted at 1and1.com and discovered that the MySQL database version was not compatible with the current release. This was an old blog that I had created using the 1and1 MySQL available at that time. The current version of my db is [...]

I am 90% done with a widget that displays clickable search engine keywords in a sidebar widget. It is running now on http://www.cthreepo.com. By the time that WordPress comes through with the widget page, I will be done testing. From the readme: The Keywords Widget collects the query strings from Google, Bing and Yahoo. It [...]

I submitted this plugin to wordpress the other day, but it has not been approved. It is a plugin to replace the built-in wordpress search to one that is more likely to have hits at the cost of displaying false hits. False hits are a good thing in that they suggest new pages to surfers, [...]

I had some fun again with distracted programming. The original release had a problem that tprevented it from working right and then a user pointed out the formatting wasn’t right. I fixed both right away, but there is still a line of people outside my office demanding my attention on real work related items, so [...]

I wrote a little widget that captures the search query when users arrive from Google, Bing or Yahoo. It puts it in a sidebar widget so that users can see the most recent search queries and click on them. I am hoping that users might stick around and search the same things other users found [...]