Category Archives: WordPress

New WordPress Plugin: Uncheck Your Default Category

Every time I start to write a blog post it’s become almost second-nature for me first to scroll down to the bottom of the long list of categories, and uncheck “Uncategorized.” Tonight I decided I was tired of doing that, so I wrote a little plugin that unchecks your default category for you, if you […]

Something Spammy Going On

Normally I get two or three instances of trackback spam per day here. So far just today I’ve gotten about 300. I’m not the only one; chatter on the WordPress support forum and Technorati seems to indicate there’s a huge wave of it across the blogosphere.

New WordPress Plugin: Enroll in Comments

I’ve created a new plugin that lets commenters enroll to receive emails when others post comments. There are other plugins that do the same thing, but I wanted something simple to install and maintain, taking advantage of the WordPress 2.0+ user role system. Any registered user can enroll to receive comments on any post or […]

Happy Blogiversary to Me!

Today marks one year since I started this blog. A year ago I had just heard about the release two days earlier of WordPress 1.5, the WordPress version that really began to reach full stride. My friend Jen had been using WordPress for several months, and her blog was an inspiration to start my own. […]

New Plugin; Now I Can Upgrade to WordPress 2.0

Uploading is the main reason I haven’t yet upgraded this blog to the recently-released WordPress 2.0. Older versions of WordPress let you choose the directory for your uploads and what size to make thumbnails of your uploaded images. WordPress 2.0 took away those options, options I’m not ready to give up. My new plugin, Filosofo […]

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 […]