Spam Gratitude
Most people feel annoyed by comment spam, and some complain very articulately.
Until recently, I used to fret about spam myself. I even started to write a ranting post on spam myself… when suddenly, the light of insight came over me, and I made my piece with it.
To WordPress Or Not To WordPress
This article is sort-of an antithesis to a post called “Why developers should pick WordPress?“. While that post does make some good points pro WordPress, I’d like to show why it is not the whole story.
The Main Arguments Dissected
The mentioned article summarizes the most common pro WordPress arguments:
- It has prominent users (even governmental).
- It is more popular than its competition.
- It is in high (and growing) demand.
- It has a large (and cool) community.
- It is easy to learn.
Fighting Influenca
Just a quick update for anybody awaiting responses and updates around here:
Quite a heavy influenca is keeping me away from my keyboard most of the time these days, so I’m not able to respond as quickly as usual.
It’ll pass… (sigh) 🙂
TOC Boxes 1.1.1 Released
A minor update of my TOC Boxes plugin is out. Besides fixing some small glitch, it adds the CSS class toc-anchor to the generated named anchors.
These anchors are inserted into the post to serve as link targets for links in the TOC box, and are (usually) invisible. The change mainly affects themes with unusual CSS styling for anchors in general, such as mentioned in my discussion with Daniel Nautré.
How To Auto-Collapse TOC Boxes
I’m writing this article in response to a question I’ve got recently, the answer to which I believe will be of general interest.
And the question is:
How to make automatically collapsed TOC boxes.
Widget Voodoo 1.0.2 Release
A minor update of Hackadelic Widget Voodoo is out. It fixes an issue with the Tag Cloud widget (and probably with others, too).
At the same time, I’ve corrected an “impurity” in the assignment of CSS classes, where the “collapsible” was attached to the title, instead the widget itself. Please change your CSS clauses Read more >>
Widget Voodoo Configuration Tutorial Reanimation Attempt
According to feedback I’ve received, viewing the Widget Voodoo Configuration Tutorial was apparently problematic. I’m not even sure if anybody at all could watch the screencast, except myself. (I’m afraid that could well have been the case, though only view people complained, compared to the number of visitors.)
While the reasons for the issue remain a mystery, I decided to move the screencast away from googlecode, where I used to host it before.
Dear visitors, I’ll ask you for a favor. Please drop me a note whether you can watch the screencast or not. Thank you for your help.
Shadowchase Continued – Is There A Bug In PHP Regular Expression Handling?
The recent “Shadowchaser Release” of Sliding Notes brought – among other features – compatibility with the “Shadowbox JS” plugin.
I’ve just came across another shadow-something1 that seemed to cause trouble.
I investigated the issue, and I’ve found out some interesting things.
- Anything that uses the Shadowbox.js script [↩]
Widget Voodoo CSS Selectors Power
I’m writing this post with a clear sense of pride about having chosen CSS selectors as “configuration syntax” for Widget Voodoo. The power and flexibility of the approach over other other, more limitting approaches is amazing.
Thank to this power, it was a “piece of cake” to resolve a help request on how to collapse al widgets at oncel I’ve got recently.
Widget Voodoo PlugIn Released
I’m proud to present the first public release of the “voodoo” that recently made all my sidebar widgets collapsible.
The plugin homepage gives a thorough overview of the features offered.
Downloads as usual at wordpress.org (as soon as they update the page).
