29Jul

WordPress plugin for removing post revisions from database

WordPress 2.6 added post revisions as a new feature that is turned on by default. In an earlier post, I described how you could control this by editing wp-config.php and there are a number of plugins that purport to provide the same level of control through the administration screens. Even so, I decided to look [...]

17Jul

New version of my Countrytones plugin

Now that WordPress 2.6 is out, it is time to introduce a new version of Countrytones to the public. A few CSS tweaks have been needed to the original version after the changes that have been made to the administration interface for 2.6. Those screens still look largely the same with this release as they [...]

23Mar

A spot of WordPress 2.5 administration panel colouration

The final release of WordPress 2.5 isn’t out yet but that hasn’t stopped me playing around with it and spotting a bug or two. Along the way, I have taken the chance to create a plugin that takes the old Earthtones palate into the new world. To do this, I have taken the WordPress Classic [...]

26Jul

FCKEditor for WordPress

The standard WordPress post editor got broken on this blog so my mind turned to replacing and I spied plugins for adding FCKEditor to the thing. Dean Lee’s is the one that I am using and it seems to work well so far too. As this is FCKEditor, there are more editing options than those [...]

20Jul

Login Logger plugin

The Login Logger WordPress plugin sounds a great idea and it works fine with standard situations. However, go beyond these and things start to go awry. An example is where you have to use unique database table prefixes because you use shared hosting. This is certainly something that I do and it breaks Login Logger. [...]

06Jul

A feast of plugins

Themed Login Here’s a useful idea: get your blog login page to look like it’s part of your blog. It does work well on my hillwalking blog but you do have to watch how it behaves with whatever theme you are using. Strangely, I couldn’t get it to work on my offline blog, the development [...]

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