I 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

Note: 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 [...]

I 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.

I 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, [...]

There 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  [...]

On 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

I 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. [...]