Tag Archives: plugin

WordPress Plugin Pet Peeve #3: Not being extensible

So this is one that is incredibly easy to implement, and yet goes a really long way in keeping people happy with your plugin. The very reason that WordPress has a [plugin API][] is because they know that different people want different things from their blog. Some people are satisfied with just the core functionality […]

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WordPress plugins - development version

I’m always hesitant to tell people to “grab the latest version of wp-openid from subversion”. That is often either followed by questions of “What is subversion?”, requests for help getting subversion to work, or the person whose bug I’m trying to fix doesn’t test the change because they don’t want to deal with subversion. Not […]

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wp-openid 2.0 released

I’m sure people are tired of me talking about how soon this will be released, so I promise I’ll shut up now. I’ve just tagged version 2.0 of wp-openid, a WordPress plugin which allows you to use OpenID for authenticating users and commenters. There are a number of really cool features we just weren’t able […]

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New WordPress plugin - FullFeed

Update - thirteen minutes after I posted this, Carsten pointed out there is another plugin that does this exact same thing (and is in fact named the same!). Go check out cavemonkey’s plugin. I noticed an interesting phenomenon this last week — Mint recorded a 400% increase in page hits on Tuesday, the day after […]

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