Hello, WordPress plugin authors! I’ve been envious of that little “Settings” link on the Plugins page in the Admin on several of the plugins I use on my blogs. I wanted one for my own PhotoSmash plugin!
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WordPress makes it very easy to load Scripts into your blog. The beauty of the method that WordPress provides is that it allows plugins and themes to use the same script at the same time by ensuring the script is loaded only once.
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So, another security fix comes out for WordPress…2.8.6 this time. And I begin making the rounds to my sites upgrading. This is now a ritual for me since some kind hacker hacked me with the 2.7 hidden admin user exploit. Everything is going smooth…I’ve done 3 sites, when I get to a new site I’m working on, and it will not automatically upgrade for anything. (more…)
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First of all, let me start by saying that Custom ReWriting in WordPress has consumed way more of my time than it ever should have. I have prayed and pleaded, even considered asking one of the WordPress Gurus on their message board, but I’ve not had much luck getting responses there (questions were probably so esoteric that nobody cared but me 
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It shouldn’t be this hard!! Here is a quick function for getting the Category ID for a WordPress Category Page. Once you get the Category ID, a world of possbilities opens up. You can get the category object and all the info you need related to that Cat. I can’t believe how hard it was to find this on Google. Ultimately, I had to piece together a couple of different posts to get to this since they weren’t quite right.
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Even as I sit here trying to fix a thorny problem with PhotoSmash, I popped by the plugin’s page and noticed that it had turned 1,000 downloads on the nose. Let’s hope the next 1,000 downloads have it a bit easier. PhotoSmash is a WordPress photo gallery plugin lets you let your visitors upload images into galleries right inside your posts. It’s sort of a unique feature amongst galleries today, but I’m sure there will be some other excellent implementations on the same theme down the road. Anyway, thanks to all you who’ve tried PhotoSmash. You’re helping me make it better.
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I am pleased to announce the release of Supple Forms, a CMS plugin for WordPress. If you’ve been looking for content management on WordPress, Supple Forms may be part of your solution. It is easy, flexible, powerful, and lightweight. Supple Forms offers two significant functions for your blog: 1) building custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page; and 2) easy inserting of form data and HTML snippets into your posts.
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This is the 2nd part of this 3 part video series on hosting a plugin on WordPress.org. There are 3 easy steps to accomplish this, but you need to do them all and you have to do them in order. So if you haven’t already gotten your WordPress Subversion repository in an email, take a look at Part 1 of this series here. Here in Part 2, we’re going to download and install the Aptana IDE to use as a graphical interface to subversion. WordPress very helpfully provides instructions for the bare basics needed to use SVN to get your plugin hosted. 
Take a gander at the image at the right. That sent shivers down my spine. I did download SVN and tried a few SVN commands from the terminal. And they worked, but I really wanted something a little more point-and-click. And Aptana was it.
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