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I have providing some light maintenance development for Rob’s Now Reading plugin; since WordPress 2.7 wholly changed its interface, the plugin need some tweaking to make it work. Up to this point, I’ve been hosting it locally, mostly picking at it whenever time allows. I just updated it the other day to add a new [...]

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§3904 · July 1, 2009 · 15 comments · Tags: , , ,


This page has been moved to a more permanent spot. Please go there.

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§3432 · December 15, 2008 · 61 comments · Tags: ,


After 6+ months of steady development, WordPress 2.5 has finally been released, with a number of new features, including a media library and the first administration panel redesign since 2.0. In addition, the main WordPress website has been redesigned to match. Congratulations to all the hackers, testers, and volunteers who helped it happen.

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§2026 · March 29, 2008 · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,


This plugin’s functionality is now largely integrated into WordPress Core. It is neither maintained nor supported. My Post Classes plugin from yesterday has morphed into the much fuller Semantic Classes plugin. For a full description/documentation, see its project page. In brief, the plugin is a combination of modified code from Scott Wallick’s Sandbox and some [...]

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§2008 · March 12, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


This plugin has been superseded by the much-improved Semantic Classes plugin I’ve written a small WordPress plugin that provides some new template tags that return a post’s tags, categories, author, and date; useful for CSS trickery. You can view its page here. This initial release provides the following items: <?php generate_tag_class(); ?> This function returns [...]

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§2004 · March 11, 2008 · 4 comments · Tags: , , , , ,


When I first set my blog up, years ago, I installed it to a subdirectory called “/blog” with the vague intention that the canonical “http://heliologue.com” URI could be a landing page pointing to whatever else I wanted to put on my server. Eventually, I learned that I could get to just about anything I wanted [...]

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§1966 · January 31, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,