I’ve released a plugin I wrote for my own blog a while ago to the public. It’s based on the original version by Justin Blanton, but I changed around the HTML output to be more semantic and tidy and essentially rewrote the PHP code. Thus the name — Smarter Archives.
You can see it in action on my archives page. It’s the one at the very top. I originally started using it as a viable alternative …
Here at Automattic we’re allllll about sharing source code. #
WordPress.com recently rolled out some very cool tools for posting source code, yet, ironically, considering the first sentence of that post, quoted above, the code hasn’t [yet] been released for WordPress users not on the shared hosting service.
Viper007Bond to the rescue. Once I saw what WordPress.com users were able to use, I grew envious and began to hunt for my own solution. Then Viper posted …
This has been floating around in my mind for a long time, but I think it’s time to finalize it. As of right now, I am completely leaving WordPress behind, at least development-wise. I will still continue using it for at least a while because I still think it’s good software, but I won’t be active in the mailing lists or the Trac system. My reasons are numerous, and I won’t list them here, but …
The WordPress and PHP 5 debate has sparked up (again?), mostly brought on by the discussion on the mailing list and Matt’s post on PHP 5. I think this post on funkatron.com explains it pretty well — what we do now with a mess of code could, in a lot of cases, be made into OOP code that is a lot simpler, plus PHP 5 has many advantages such as PDO, which the Habari project …
WordPress 2.2.1 has been released, which includes many fixes for bugs that sprung up, and most importantly of all, fixes a few rather major security holes:
escapeshellarg(). Unfortunately, PHPMailer seems to be no longer maintained, so looks like WordPress is going to have to maintain it, or switch to another library.Ever since I started using the PXS Mail Form plugin in favor of WP-ContactForm for my contact page, I always had problems with it conflicting with the Markdown plugin. Namely, that it disabled the Markdown formatting, and left me with a pile of rubbish.
At the time I decided to keep Markdown and disabled PXS Mail Form, and my contact page took a vacation, but I finally managed to take some time to look a little …
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