K’s Weblog

Wordpress 2.5 is out, warts and all, for public consumption today.  Many users are opting to wait for a burn-in period to take place before taking the plunge.  Several major updates from Wordpress have had a point-release take place within days, usually to fix a security flaw.
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Recently some of you may have noticed some instability with the theme on this blog. The theme on the blog seemed to reset to the WordPress default without any rhyme or reason. I assumed it was one of the many plugins I had installed to try to provide additional content or functionality [...]

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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
The most significant changes for [...]

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Here’s a real-life example of how scope creep can absolutely kill a project you’re working on. I tend to find that this particular phenomenon tends to take hold of my projects on a regular basis, and I’ve been actively trying to combat it for quite a while now.
The project in question was a very [...]

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I’ve always been a bit of a stats monkey when it comes to… well pretty much everything.  I like to know how many there are, how long it takes, how much it costs.  I want the numbers.  But more than that, I want accurate numbers and often times in the past trying to get accurate [...]

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I’ve just put the finishing touches on the latest version of the Random Image Plugin that I originally released in the summer.  This plugin will allow you to produce an <IMG> tag containing a randomly selected image from a folder of your choice on any wordpress page (or post if you allow php).
The two biggest [...]

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Exactly 2 months ago, I released my Random Image Selector plugin for wordpress.  Every now and again I take a look and see how many people are downloading the random image plugin.
On average, in the exactly 2 months since it’s release about 15 people are downloading the plugin.  And on September 22nd, it hit the [...]

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I’ve just launched the first version of a new Wordpress widget, the Admin Links Widget.
This very simple widget does as the name suggests. It provides links to administrative functions from the sidebar of your Wordpress installation. The catch is, only administrators will be able to see the links so the general public won’t [...]

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UPDATE: December 9, 2007: The Random Image Plugin has been updated! Please see the new post for updates on features, or to comment.
 
 
Have you ever wanted to display a random image from a folder on your site? Maybe for a background or banner for your blog? Now there’s a quick and easy [...]

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