Tag Archives: Wordpress

Kudos to WPTouch

Just wanted to give a quick kudos to the work of the WPTouch plug-in team.  I don’t personally own a smart phone (yet), but I know many people who do, and anything that makes it easier for them to ready … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.7

On Thursday, the WordPress team released version 2.7 of the blogging app used by yours truly.  I couldn’t help but rush towards upgrading this weekend to see the management interface. It’s a fairly big jump in layout even compared to … Continue reading

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Fortune Widget 0.4

Today I just release Fortune Widget 0.4, which includes corrections for WordPress 2.2.x and newer (I know… I know… a little behind the curve here).  Additionally I’ve added some better error output to indicate why a fortune file read may … Continue reading

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Fortune Widget

Fortune Widget is a plugin for WordPress, which displays a fortune (I.E. quote) from a fortune file in your widget sidebar.  This is a simple plugin with an easy installation, simple configuration, and includes the ever popular Calvin and Hobbes … Continue reading

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Adding Trying To Add Fortune Widget to WP-Plugins

Well, I’m trying to be somewhat official with my fortune widget by adding it to the wp-plugins database and committing the code to the svn server.  So far I haven’t had any luck as I keep running into an error … Continue reading

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Spam User Accounts?

I’ve recently noticed a sharp increase in new user registrations, all of which do not appear to be users genuinely interested being a “registered user”. Most of these accounts with involve random characters the names, end with the Russia country … Continue reading

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HowTo: Create Fortune Files

With these steps you should be able to create your own fortune files, which can be used with the Fortune Widget I created for WordPress. This does get a little tricky for Windows users, as the applications needed to create … Continue reading

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Article of the Day: Widgets and Site Slowdown…

Mike Davidson has a great post that all WordPress bloggers AND WordPress widget developers should read about the speed impacts of widget and widget design. I had actually noticed some of these issues when I originally began my switch to … Continue reading

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Spam Free

While getting ready for my incredibly early morning, I double checked my email and saw a message from my WordPress blog that I hadn’t seen in a long time: A comment moderation notice. I actually figured it was a real … Continue reading

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