So it’s the first 5000 lucky punters in the survey - that’s how it works… And this exercise in focus group ‘democracy’, well, that has a nice feel, does it not? Continue reading »

Having tried out the most recent plugin I could find for getting a pdf from (just) a post, without bothering with categories - here - the results are mixed, to say the least, on PHP5, standard Red Hat etc. Continue reading »

WP MarkItUp is not bad at all… Runs on the standard MarkItUp code, driven by jQuery and is a WP plugin.

Tried it out by bodging in a Paypal “buy now” button to the editor, and it does ok, and would make putting in various extra functions of this sort a reasonably modular experience for the average programmer.

If you do know what you’re doing with javascript/AJAX, not sure it’s a necessary replacement, but it might provide a conduit for cleaning up the editor/quicktags functions, never-ending…

Many comments on the recent acquisition by Automattic of Intense Debate  - or just the comments system thereof - whichever being the case is slightly glossed depending on the source.

And, hey presto, many comments of the “it’s so kewl variety”

The assumption at present is, perhaps, that this is a wordpress.com deal, and not in the first instance a wordpress.org thing - some noises about a plugin… alternatively, it’s an integral part of 2.7 and arriving near you next month…  it’s wait and see.

Alpen 3column - a completely updated version of the 2 column theme - this time with a two column right hand-sidebar, both enabled for widgets. In addition, the theme now has post comments separated from pingback/trackbacks and support for gravatars.

The theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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Hmm, web services to service a smaller and smaller niche, with plugins to handle your every whim and desire - a WP plugin to import the listings of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress installation.

And we’ve survived quite well with just a duplicate-content plugin and that’s about it.

Some signs of democracy… ? The proposed WordPress v2.7 Navigation Options poll announced multiply a couple days ago seems to have paused, if not died.

The poll - not quite a survey - by last thing yesterday was showing as ‘closed’ - so maybe the result was entirely clear-cut and no need to go any further… no, I suspect voting to return to something like version 2.3 wasn’t an option.

ACMS theme is fully updated for the (wondrous) WordPress version 2.6. It’s available for demo and download here.

Revisions include support for gravatars and pingback/trackback separation from user comments.

To all kind enough to write - yes, I’m aware that WordPress version 2.6 - if not 2.5 as well - has managed to break a few of the (more minor) theme functions round here. I’m on the case, just as soon as time permits, to give everything a thorough overhaul and back in shape.
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Oh well, WordPress > extend > themes seems to have ground to a halt, temporary or otherwise, fairly early on in its bright new career - which is a pity, if this is going to be the advertised “good centralized place” - a job that weblogtoolscollection does rather well on a much more ad hoc basis.

Of course, I wouldn’t want the job of verifying that lot of submissions, paid or unpaid