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Just wanted to give a quick kudos to the work of the WPTouch plug-in team.  I don’t personally own a smart phone (yet), but I know many people who do, and anything that makes it easier for them to ready my site helps.

On Thursday, the Wordpress team released version 2.7 of the blogging app used by yours truly.  I couldn’t help but rush towards upgrading this weekend to see the management interface.

It’s a fairly big jump in layout even compared to the changes brought to us by version 2.6.  I love how they choose the changes by [...]

Today I just release Fortune Widget 0.4, which includes corrections for Wordpress 2.2.x and newer (I know… I know… a little behind the curve here).  Additionally I’ve added some better error output to indicate why a fortune file read may have failed such as whether the fortune.php script is readable or if it’s the fortune [...]

Fortune Widget is a plugin for Wordpress, which displays a fortune (I.E. quote) from a fortune file in your widget sidebar.  This is a simple plugin with an easy installation, simple configuration, and includes the ever popular Calvin and Hobbes fortune file.  Adding other fortune files is as easy as add them to your fortune [...]

Well, I’m trying to be somewhat official with my fortune widget by adding it to the wp-plugins database and committing the code to the svn server.  So far I haven’t had any luck as I keep running into an error when attempt to commit:

$ svn ci -m "Initial Commit" –username ****** –password ‘******’
Adding [...]

Some time ago I had posted about a new issue with managing my blog in the way of random new accounts being created.  At the time it seemed fairly consistent that they were all Russia based domains (.ru), and they all had fairly unreadable account names, so I simply kept removing those accounts.  Not long [...]

I’ve recently noticed a sharp increase in new user registrations, all of which do not appear to be users genuinely interested being a “registered user”. Most of these accounts with involve random characters the names, end with the Russia country code (.ru), or contain other common spam words. While they do all seam [...]

With these steps you should be able to create your own fortune files, which can be used with the Fortune Widget I created for Wordpress. This does get a little tricky for Windows users, as the applications needed to create these files are not as readily available as in Linux, but hopefully it shouldn’t [...]

Mike Davidson has a great post that all Wordpress bloggers AND Wordpress widget developers should read about the speed impacts of widget and widget design. I had actually noticed some of these issues when I originally began my switch to widgets, as the flicker widget and picasaweb photo widgets caused significant slowdowns on my [...]

While getting ready for my incredibly early morning, I double checked my email and saw a message from my Wordpress blog that I hadn’t seen in a long time: A comment moderation notice. I actually figured it was a real comment, however my enthusiasm was quickly curbed when went to moderate the command [...]