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WordPress Bug Hunt – 5th Novemeber 2005

On By westiIn Development, WordPress

This Saturday there is going to be the first “WordPress Bug Hunt”. The aim of the event is to blast through all the outstanding bugs in Trac marking fixed those already fixed and working on developing fixes for those that still exist.

Skippy recommends that you bring along a text editor and a fresh install of WordPress 1.6-ALPHA-2-still-dont-use a good way to do this is to setup a local install on your home computer for example using XAMPP if you are running Windows or using these instructions if you are on Mac OS X – It both cases don’t forget you want to install the latest svn version.

There is a dedicated IRC channel for people to meet up on on the day and discuss the bugs which is #wordpress-bugs on freenode.

You don’t need any coding skills or experience to turn up. Just being willing to attempt to test whether or not bugs still exist will make you very useful as some of the open issues date from v1.2 and earlier and have quite likely already been fixed.

Update: There is now a dedicated codex page for info about the WordPress Bug Hunt(s)

SK2 – Simple Digest plugin – Version 1.0 Released

On By westiIn Development, WordPress

I am pleased to announce an important update to my Spam Karma 2 Simple Digest plugin – the functional changes are small but its worth upgrading to the latest version as some of them may prove quite useful to you if you suffer from high spam levels.

The plugin now boasts a karma threshold setting. Any comment which has a karma below this threshold will not make it into your digest emails which should help sort the wheat from the chaff. The plugin is also ready for translation which I’ve heard may make it into the next SK2 release as well. Both of these changes are courtesy of the zedrdave himself. I have also updated the format of the digest report to make it a bit more readable.

So what are you waiting for? Head off over here to the plugins main page and download the latest version!

Site updates

On By westiIn Asides, WordPress

I was musing the other day about how my archives page would look much nicer if the category and date based archives were presented as heat maps. This sounded to me like a good idea for a plugin and I was all set to start coding when I thought I’d better check someone hadn’t thought of my revolutionary idea before! A quick google later and I came upon the “WordPress Heat Map plugin” which provides both heat maps for me. A few minutes later and it was integrated within the site and some CSS added to make it look pretty and all was done.