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 feature (editable ASIN) and hopefully fix a recurring bug (CDATA error when searching).

In any case, I hope to make a push in the near future to clean it up and submit it the official WordPress plugin site so that its user can benefit from auto-update, etc. etc. My own much-atrophied skills as a PHP developer aside (I deal mostly with Java at work), I think that it will ultimately benefit everybody, assuming I can make it so that the updates don’t override custom templates (perhaps giving preference to Now Reading template files in the theme folder?).

Stay tuned. The plugin is now here.

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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.

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 coding of my own. It seeks to bring Sandbox’s wonderful semantic class generation into plugin form, where it can be easily included in other themes by means of a template tag.

As of v0.2, it provides the following functions:

Posts

Return a post’s categories with a modifiable prefix

Return a post’s tags with a modifiable prefix

Return a post’s author with a modifiable prefix

Return a post’s date elements (year, month, day, hour) with modifiable prefixes

Body

Return a body’s type(s); e.g. ‘single’ or ‘archive’ or ‘home’

Return a body’s date elements with modifiable prefixes; associated dates for entries with date data (see documentation) and current date for searches, home, etc.

Comments

Return a comment’s metadata; e.g. differentiate site users, post author

Return a comment’s date elements with modifiable prefixes

Return an ‘alt’ class for alternating comments

If you’re interested, give it a whirl. I’m no experienced plugin writer, but I’m pretty pleased with this.

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 a space-delineated list of the post’s tags, prefixed with ‘tag-’

e.g. tag-politics tag-election-2008

<?php generate_category_class(); ?>

This function returns a space-delinated list of the post’s categories, prefixed with ‘category-’

e.g. category-personal category-random-thoughts

<?php generate_author_class(); ?>

This function returns the author name of a post, prefixed with ‘author-’

e.g. author-Heliologue

<?php generate_date_class(); ?>

This function returns a space-delineated list of the post’s date, prefixed with ‘y’ (year), ‘m’ (month), and ‘d’ (day).

e.g. y2008 m03 d11