The first time I wrote a WordPress plugin, I thought, “Cool, I’m going to host this puppy on the WordPress website and I’ll get tons of traffic.”  Then I got to the front door and they started talking about SVN.  Then I took a look at what SVN (aka Subversion) was all about, and that was the end of that.  But then, I wrote a more serious plugin, PhotoSmash Galleries, which lets your users upload photos to galleries on your blog, that you can moderate later.  And I knew I had to climb the learning curve and get PhotoSmash hosted.

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Popularity: 18%

UPDATE:  7/12/2009 -PhotoSmash 0.3 has been released.  Its new homepage is just getting started, so you might need to browse below if you don’t find what you looking for over at Smashly.net.  Thanks for your patience!

Release Candidate 2 version 0.2.996 (RC3 for 0.3.00) now available at WordPress.

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Sometimes my Googling skills are not what they ought to be.  I searched high and low for a code formatter for this blog, but for some reason I couldn’t come up with the search terms.  Seriously, in the real world, only a demented nerd would drool over the code presentation on other people’s blogs…but there I was, and my code looked like utter malarkey by comparison. (more…)

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Yea, this is 2.7….Love it!

• The new Dashboard is a dream.
• Totally customizable.
• The Write Post page now actually makes sense.
• And TinyMCE appears to be faster and less finicky.
• My theme, Contender, didn’t break.
• WhyPad is running 9 plugins and none of them broke.

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If you need to use custom Mod re-write rules – .htaccess rules – in a WordPress blog, you have a couple of options.  You could use WordPress’ built-in rewriting engine.  I have created a plugin that facilitates that and makes it pretty easy.  You can get the plugin here.  If, however, your app needs to bypass the WordPress app, you will need to put your rewrite rules directly in the .htaccess file.  The trouble is that if you’re using pretty urls for permalinks in WordPress, it has the horrible habit of rewriting portions of that file and you lose your rules if you don’t do it properly.  This seems happen at odd times like creating or updating a Page or a Post. (more…)

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This plugin isn’t intended to revolutionize the world, but it does solve a problem that some of you may have. BWB-ReWriter is a small helper plugin to let you easily add parameters to your “pretty urls” in your WordPress app. A big thanks to Gamerz and Zoom4 in this WP support topic for their info on how to make this work.

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WhyPad is now using WordPress 2.5. This latest version of WordPress has a ton of new and exciting features, including a built in photo gallery, the ability to easily upload multiple files, and some changes to the Post authoring. The biggest changes are visible in the Admin pages. I won’t belabor the stuff that has already be written about by the experts, so you can read all about it here.

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A brief note to any of you WordPress bloggers out there who have not upgraded to 2.3 (read about the goodies and get download link here). You should run, not walk, to the nearest download center and upgrade your blogs. I haven’t spent a lot of time kicking the tires on all of the features, but I can tell you that Automattic has definitely improved the speed in this release.

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