Testing YouTube Feed Widget
September 29th, 2010I wrote a new plugin and I am currently testing it. You may download the test version of the YouTube Feed Widget if you like. I will submit it to the WordPress Repository in a week or so after I finish testing it. I will add the ability to list only a specific user’s videos [...]
May be updating all of my plugins
September 24th, 2010I noticed that my plugins show a WordPress installation date of 2.9 and earlier. Most of my plugins are stable and don’t need updating. I don’t have any new features to add or bugs to fix. Should I update them just to show that they work with the latest release of WordPress. The only thing [...]
Automatic RSS Poster
September 21st, 2010Note: I’ve had lots of feedback and changed the plugin – fixing bugs. Please download latest version if you downloaded before 9/22/2010. Since this is not in the WP repository you won’t get notified when there is a new version. The next version may automatically check here for the latest production code date. There have [...]
WordPress Plugins Rejected
September 21st, 2010I wrote three automatic posting plugins. It seems that the people at WordPress.org do not allow plugins that do auto-posting of any kind. I will have to post them here without benefit of the WordPress repository. I will not write any more of these.
RSS2Post Plugin
September 17th, 2010I wrote an automated RSS2Post plugin. It takes as input a feed and using a scheduled event goes out out every hour to snatch up to 10 RSS feeds and insert the entries as posts. I took a while to write because I wanted it to work with 1) WordPress feeds, 2) Google Alert RSS, [...]
Google Rage Rank Update for September 2010
September 14th, 2010There have been scattered reports of a page rank update. I see no evidence as of today (Sept 14). I have about 40 domains and there was no change in page rank of the dozen or so I watch. I am skeptical about these reports. There is possibly an update coming at the end of [...]
I’m number 501
September 14th, 2010On daveligthart.com I am now listed as #501. Soon I may break 500. I released a new version of Open-in-new-window-plugin and Stop-Spammer-Registrations-Plugin. The former has received about 1,000 downloads in a week. I may make it into other summary pages if I drop under 500. I don’t know, but a link is a link, and [...]
Stop Spammer Registrations 1.4
September 14th, 2010I worked on my Stop Spammer Registrations plugin this week. It is getting quite complicated. It checks for IP and Username in addition to the Email. I cache recent attempts in order to keep the bad guys out without having to hit the StopForumSpam db more than I have to. I had to make it [...]
WordPress Blues Oyster Cult Widget
September 3rd, 2010I found a bug in the Blue Oyster Cult Widget. You can download the fixed version here: Blue Oyster Cult Widget This widget displays a single random stanza from a random Blue Oyster Cult song. I never submitted this to the WordPress.Org repository. It is not a “serious” widget. Installation: 1. Download the Blue-Oyster-Cult-Widget zip. [...]