http://blog.ftwr.co.uk Random commentary... Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:13:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have just released an updated version of my "Page Excerpt" plugin to work with the new add_meta_box() api in WordPress 2.5. Enjoy! http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/03/30/updating-plugins-for-wordpress-25/ In order to try and recognise the large number of contributors to WordPress 2.5 I have attempted to create a tag cloud using my powers of grep and sed and the wonderful tool that is tagcrowd.com http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-contributors/ WordPress 2.5 has been released.  Now is the right time to upgrade and give thanks to allow those people that brought it to you. You can read more about it here. http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/03/29/wordpress-25/ As a user of Ryan Duff's WP-ContactForm plugin for a long time I thought I would see if I could get it updated to work better with more recent versions of WordPress.  The trunk version on dev.wp-plugins.org had not been updated in over a year and there were many reports ... http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/03/27/giving-wp-contact-form-some-love/ Now WordPress 2.5 RC1 is out it the wild for testing we are receiving some reports of strange problems with some of the ajax functionality in the admin pages so I have prepared a quick tutorial to help people collect the relevant debugging information to help us investigate the problems. Here ... http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/03/20/debugging-ajax-problems-with-firebug/ WordPress 2.5 is nearing release so I have updated this site to the latest trunk code to try and catch any issues - apologies if the site goes a wonky at times. http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/02/27/living-on-the-edge-2/ WordPress 2.3.3 was released recently so if you haven't updated yet take this as a friendly reminder as it includes a security fix. You can read a more detailed look at the changes over on my other blog. http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/02/08/wordpress-233/ I am an avid fan of last.fm, the uk based social music platform and was please to see today the announcement of new functionality within the last.fm website to allow the playing of full-length tracks and albums for free. This new reminded me of the announcement a couple of ... http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/01/23/lastfm-vs-pandora-and-the-age-of-ad-supported-online-radio-in-the-uk/ It seems that back in Oct 2006 when I updated my site design to use a simple plugin to automate the page listing all my plugins I managed to zip up a non-working version of the code.  Thanks to Stephen Rider my incompetence has been discover and I have now ... http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/01/08/query-child-of-page-update-to-make-it-work-for-anyone-apart-from-me/ Yesterday we went to visit The Enchanted Garden at Sheffield Park and I took a few nice photos: See more http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/12/30/the-enchanted-garden/ WordPress 2.3.2 has hit the streets as a late christmas early new years present for you all it include a security fix. You can read a more detailed look at the changes over on my other blog. http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/12/30/wordpress-232/ This evening I have added some changes for the upcoming WordPress v2.4 release which will help theme, plugin and site developers track down when they are using deprecated WordPress functions. This new functionality relies, in part, on the new WP_DEBUG flag being enabled before anything interesting happens. With ... http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/12/28/tracking-deprecated-functions/ These are too cool. I want one too! http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/12/24/ballpit/ Eclipse PDT rocks. My WordPress development environment now has a debugger! http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/12/11/eclipse-pdt-rocks/ WordPress 2.3.1 has hit the streets including one security fix. You can read a more detailed look at the changes over on my other blog. http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2007/10/26/wordpress-231/