Category Archives: WordPress

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 […]

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!

New Tags Plugin

Thanks to Blog Jones for pointing out a handy WordPress plugin, Jerome’s Keywords. It’s a quick way to organize your posts and get them indexed by search engines such as Technorati. Now if the author would move the configurable parameters into the admin control panel (instead of making you pass arguments to functions in the […]

Filosofo Comments Preview Now on WP-Plugins.org

I’ve posted the source of my WordPress blog plugin, Filosofo Comments Preview at the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can see the source or view the wiki. And if you use Subversion, you can get the latest version from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/. For example, on a Linux machine you might type svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/   to “check out,” […]

New WordPress Plugin

I’m been using a handy JavaScript function to extract blockquote sources from the “cite” attribute and put it at the bottom of the quotation, and I’ve done something similar to make image captions from the image “title” attribute. So I decided to put it into a WordPress plugin so others could do the same. The […]

WordPress Comments Preview Updated . . . Again

Thanks to some helpful feedback in the last few days, I’ve made a couple of updates to my WordPress comments preview plugin. Hopefully this kind of input will help to make the Filosofo Comments Preview plugin robust.