Yearly Archives: 2005

New WordPress Plugin

I’ve come up with a lightweight WordPress plugin that might be helpful for those who want to use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). I’ve called it “Home-Page Control” because it allows you to set one of your pages as the home page for your site and to put the “blog” part of the […]

TurboDBAdmin

I don’t necessary start salivating just because someone says “Ajax,” but I’ve installed a handy database tool featured on digg.com called TurboDbAdmin. True, it doesn’t have the features of PHPMyAdmin, but for manipulating data, it’s much more convenient.

il feto del filosofo

Even though my wife’s only eight weeks into the pregnancy and the kid’s just two centimeters long, today we could see fingers, a heartbeat (at 167 beats a minute), and the occasional wiggle.

WordPress Plugin: Highlight Current Category

Amanzimtoti on the WordPress testers’ list suggested a core change that would insert the class “current-cat” into the link for a category, if someone’s browsing the archives under that category. It would allow WordPress users to style their themes so as to highlight the relevant category–a good idea. (Amanzimtoti invited everyone to check it out […]

I’m Being Retentive About Retention

The spokesman at my alma mater gives a figure that doesn’t match my experience: Pait acknowledges that students sometimes feel as though the school’s policies “cramp their style.” However, the university maintains an extremely strong retention rate; sometimes as high as 95 percent. I think my freshman class had about 1500-2000 members, and I remember […]

Updates for Filosofo Comments Preview

I’ve updated my WordPress plugin, Filosofo Comments Preview, so that now it works for those using pop-up comments. I also used classes to reduce unnecessary clutter in the code, hopefully making it a little more efficient. If you have a WordPress blog, try it out, and let me know what you think!