SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

W00t! 

I had missed that I am listed as one of the Unofficial Five (six by some counts) Kingdoms of Hackdom on the wordpress site!  Thanks so much to Cena over at WP for the linkage, I must write more plugins!

The newest nightlies of the Wordpress Blogging System have depricated the my-hacks.php file in favor of a more user-friendly plugin system.

The new system is wonderfully implemented, for both plugin writers and users.  A plugin is really nothing more than a well formed php page that contains your custom functions; the end user then simply drops this php file in a directory labeled, get this: plugins, that resides inside the wp-content directory.  I am not sure about the wisdom of not having the plugins directory at root level, it isn’t for security since you can easily navigate to the folder.  But that is beside the point, since the system is in flux currently.

Within the archive you will find:

1. AuthorList(); (use <?php author_list(); ?> to call this function once you have the plugin installed and enabled.)
2. AuthorRSS(); (use <?php author_rss(); ?> to call this function once you have the plugin installed and enabled.)
3. MyTunes(); (use <?php my_tunes(); ?> to call this function once you have the plugin installed and enabled.)
4. RecentComments(); (use <?php last_comments(); ?> to call this function once you have the plugin installed and enabled.)

I left out my CreativeCommons(); hack for now. There is a little more involved with it, and I am trying to decide a good way to handle the need for an admin screen with it.  That is it for now, so if you are like me and enjoy living dangerously and already have a build of WP that uses plugins, then please by all means DL away and go for it.

If you post about this on Twitter, please use the hashtag #silly311.