SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

WordPress Support for “nofollow”,

Written in Plano, TX on January 19, 2005 and tagged with .

Well I am sure you have heard about the “nofollow” initiative making its rounds, courtesy of google.

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New Plugin,

Written in Plano, TX on November 30, 2004 and tagged with .

I am not actually sure what I want to call this yet, it is equal parts Noteworthy Plugin and Post/Article Karma System.

First some background.  The always industrious Michael Heilemann requested help to write a custom plugin.  I thought nothing of it, since I wasn’t really able to follow what Michael hoped to accomplish by this.

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New Experiment,

Written in Plano, TX on November 11, 2004 and tagged with .

I have begun work on a Flash front end for a WordPress powered site.

This is going to be a pretty long and involved process, since I am having to marry Flash with php and a MySQL DB, but I have already made pretty good headway in my first day.  Once completed to my satisfaction I will be releasing it as a "Theme" in much the same way that Michael has released Kubrick.

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Back from the brink,

Written in Plano, TX on October 29, 2004 and tagged with .

UPDATE #2: I have released a minor update that adresses the missing "" in the comments link.  So those of you out there that care about validation can breathe easy again.  Get it at the usual place.

UPDATE: I had left out one crucial piece of information from the setup directions, so the zip file has been updated.  The only change is that I have now stated as a last step that you must open your index.php and find this line:
<?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
and replace it with
<?php cjd_comment(); ?>
once that is done everything should be peachy.



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Some Experimentation…,

Written in Plano, TX on September 18, 2004 and tagged with and .

I just thought I would take a moment to direct your attention to the donate link that now resides in my navigation menu at the top.

I have been watching as some others in the WP community have tried the donation tack, and I have decided that it is not Very Evil (tm) to provide a way for someone to show thier appreciation for your hard work in this way.  Now I go into this in depth on the donation page, but let me state here again, that I will always provide help and code when I can, it just looks like that "when I can" is getting less and less frequent.  I would also like to write a monthly series on WP, and I really can’t do that unless the donations come in.

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Talk like a Pirate day,

Written in Plano, TX on September 17, 2004 and tagged with and .

This Sunday is International Talk like a Pirate Day, and in honor of this glorious holiday, this post, plus all the comments that are added to it will be automagically converted to Pirate via Dougal’s snazzy Text Filter Suite.

Post from me will probably be infrequent for the next week or so as I bear down on various projects that are approaching deadline, hope you all are doing well.  Oh and look for version .7 RC 1 of Mass Delete in the next day or so.

Well anyway here is the hack…,

Written in Plano, TX on September 3, 2004 and tagged with .

This is a hack for WP 1.3+ only

There is now a version for 1.2+

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Note to self…,

Written in Plano, TX on September 3, 2004 and tagged with and .

Note to self, when writing a hack that deletes comments, do not use your live server to test against, because you might wipe out all your comments.

Also don’t hack on comment deletion when you have been deprived of sleep.  I will be restoring some of my comments from a backup, but I imagine that I have lot 150 - 200 comments in this fiasco.  Bah.

New plugin/hack for WordPress,

Written in Plano, TX on August 16, 2004 and tagged with .

I have completed around 95% of the work for my latest plugin/hack combo.

This time out I am giving you good people the ability to set the text of your comments link on a per post basis.  So if you wrote a post about dreams, the link to leave comments could be like this:
So what are you dreaming? (0)
instead of the normal:
Comments (0)


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Faking it: WordPress as CMS pt. 2,

Written in Plano, TX on July 24, 2004 and tagged with and .

Now we comes the part where we throw in some cache-action.  Brought to you by the Dynamic Duo Mattman and Zeller the Boy Wonder.  Now Staticize Reloaded is not the best thing since sliced bread, but it is pretty great regardless.

Now I am not going to get into the "how" the plugin works, I mean who wants that!  We are Americans, we just want it to work now!  So anywhoo, follow these easy steps to set up a little cache action:

  • I assume you have followed the above link and downloaded the plugin from Matt’s site?  Well if not then go and download away, I will wait.  Done?  Good.
  • Now, you want to drop that badboy into your /plugins/ directory located within the /wp-content/ directory.
  • While you are in the /wp-content/ dir, go ahead and create another dir called cache within /wp-content/ and make sure to chmod, or set permissions to 777.
  • Now login to your admin area and go to plugins, you will now see Staticize Reloaded listed, go ahead and activate it.
That is it, the plugin performs all its tasks behind the scenes.  One caveat, you must deselect gzip …

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