The Sassy Lawyer notes the launch of “Talking Points,” INQ7.net’s attempt at weblogs, or something pretending to be one. As described on their site, it is “used to chronicle news events as they happen, to post selected readers’ comments as they’re sent — much like a weblog.” And this is where things get interesting. First […]
Twenty–one years ago today, Ninoy Aquino was gunned down, dying to give birth to the Filipino’s consciousness and courage—and freedom. The Filipino is worth dying for. Do you think any of our leaders today possess such dedication to its people? Forgive me for the ostentatious introduction. I’ve been wanting to write, but couldn’t find the […]
Of course you’ve heard of SmartyPants, right? It’s that famous Movable Type and Blosxom plugin enabling authors to publish their weblogs with typographically elegant punctuations. That includes the famous Doug Bowman’s Stopdesign. Unfortunately for WordPress users, those wanting to use it had little chance, with SmartyPants written in Perl, not in PHP. Not until Michel […]
About a week ago, there was a very active discussion on Dave Shea’s mezzoblue redesign, not only because of the new interface, but more importantly, his new feature: Reply Highlighting. Looks good on paper, but his first implementation was rather “faulty.” His highlighting feature was based on the premise that well–known designers and developers were […]
One of WordPress’s unique features is the ability to apply block formatting and punctuation styling through the buit–in wpautop() and wptexturize() functions, respectively. However, this behavior fails on some markup combinations. The simple–looking "<strong>text wrapped with strong emphasis tag, with quotes outside</strong>" replaces the two instances of double–quotes with opening–double–quotes (“ — escaped in HTML […]
The default link manager in WordPress has always been feature–packed since the 1.0 release, though it could still use some hacking to do certain things. The blogroll import function has been something I’ve always wanted to work properly, but I couldn’t. Not that I tried or read the documentation that much, but I wanted it […]
Yes, the title says it all: wp–recent–links is now a valid plugin for WordPress 1.2. No need to copy the functions from my-hacks.php to a plugin file, now we have both files ready, for 1.0 and 1.2 users. Lots of fixes on this one, and rewritten functions are now more configurable. Of course the old […]
wp–recent–links has now reached version 1.2, with a new RSS 2 feed for syndicating your links. Grab the latest zip and try it. And post your comments if it breaks your site. 🙂 An update to 1.2 is now available: 1.21. Just fixed a copy-and-paste error that was causing the link captions to be not […]
Matt has just written on some developments regarding the upcoming WorPress 1.2 release, expected next week. In another post, he notes the recently released pricing scheme for Movable Type, barely a few hours after SixApart announced the availability of MT 3.0 Developer Edition. With these developments, the blogging scene will be very active in the […]
Some quickly generated thoughts on Six Aparts‘s recently announced TypeKey Authentication Services: You have to be locked–in to their authentication service for it be effective. If you support TypeKey and still keep your site open to traditional comment systems, you are susceptible to comment spam. Embracing TypeKey exclusively (allowing comments from TypeKey users only) drives […]