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Programmer, Harmonica Player, Science Fiction Writer, Beekeeper

Plugin idea

I wonder if there is a widget that only displays to people coming in through Google or Bing search. I could make a list of similar posts based on the search items in the search.

Writing an MU New Blog Approval Plugin

So far my test Wordpress MU site gets nothing but Spam. I can tell if it is spam before the blog gets very far, but the registration is a klugey process. I want to have users fill out all their information and some extra data. I then want to see a list of these with [...]

BuddyPress for WP

I installed the new Wordpress version of Buddypress. Early versions required WPMU, but the new one works in straight WP. I also downloaded the Template helper plugin. I got it working on a couple of blogs. I had to tweak the template additions to work with my templates, but otherwise it seemed to work.
There were [...]

Threat Scanning Plugin – Early Alpha

I downloaded and ran a few plugins that were supposed to do threat scans and I was not that pleased. I wrote my own plugin that scans for the problems that I found in a blog that I just cleaned up. It works well, but it is not ready for prime time. I’d like to [...]

Email PHP Errors Plugin

I wrote a plugin that notifies me of PHP errors in my WordPress sites. I set it initially to send everything up to E_NOTICE and received over 500 messages in two minutes.
If you want to use this, the first thing you want to do is turn on PHP5. Wordpress will work with PHP4 in [...]

Plugin in 5 minutes

I wrote a plugin for Steve this morning that took less than 5 minutes to write and check. It was 3 lines of core code and a few lines to load the action. Most of this was cut and paste.
The plugin forces comments open every time a post is published. Steve’s system somehow has lost [...]

BB Open in new window plugin

It turns out my open in new window plugin was easily translated to bbPress. I had to change only one line. The javascript loads in the head now because I could not find the hook for the footer, but it works just fine.
Just put the files in your my-plugins dir and it is done. It [...]

CSS Zen Garden as a Blog

I made css zen garden as a test blog to see how it does.
Mostly it fails due to fixed size blocks for text that does not have enough room for blog entries. Interesting stuff though. I am pretty sure that www.csszengarden.com will block me for stealing their bandwidth once a few people try this.
http://www.blogseye.com/_test/

Permalink Finder 1.30

I committed the 1.30 version of the Permalink Finder to the repository this morning. This was my first plugin and one of the most useful. I added links to the 404 error pages and referrers so that you can check why a page is not being found. I also added the uninstall routine which will [...]

Blue Oyster Cult Random Lyric Plugin

I wrote this on a whim. I have 40,000 song lyrics in an archive so I can make one of these for almost any band you can think of.
You can download the zip file here:  Blue Oyster Cult Random Lyric Plugin. I am not putting this in the wordpress repository – I’ll save that for [...]