Nov
02
2008
It just needed some prodding from Craig Cmehil (as always) and I’ve just uploaded two of my plugins to the official wordpress repository. This blog also serves to be a shout out to my friend Oliver Kohl whom I’ve been constantly pestering to upload his fantastic SDN Contibutor plugin to the official wordpress repository. It’s a damn good plugin and he should upload it to the plugin directory to let everyone use his piece of work.
The submission process is a breeze which starts with the filling of a submission form and waiting for your submission to get approved. Once it does, (it usually takes about a day), you get access to a subversion repository where you upload your plugin files and a readme.txt and you are done.
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Sep
27
2008
…and they will love you.
I am always on the lookout for new ways to make my blog more accessible and helpful to visitors. And this does not only mean that I write something that helps them but also hold their hand if they stumble into a 404 or want to search my site better.
In my quest for a better and a more visitor friendly blog i stumbled upon these two wordpress plugins which i quite like :
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Jul
22
2008
I use StatPress on my Blog for statistics management. According to the Plugin’s page on Wordpress Statpress is “The real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.”
It also has a nifty view called Spy which lets you view who visited your website from which country and the link they hit. A couple of days back I was quite surprised that someone had tried to SQL Inject my Blog, the following URL String showed up as a request :
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Jul
04
2008
Introduction
Friday is Chinposin Day. If the previous line did not make any sense to you, then it’s time you read my good friend Blag’s blog on Chinposin.
What started off as an one off experiment is growing into a full fledged avatar management platform with more and more functionality being added every day. With a avatar timeline per user along with it’s feed, Tiltviewer and many more upcoming features all of which can be found on the Chinposin Blog, this was a perfect platform to develope my first Wordpress Widget.
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Jun
02
2008
WordPress Mobile Edition is a nifty wordpress plugin which mobile-enables your wordpress blog. No configuration involved, just install the plugin and it automatically detects majority of the mobile browsers. Below is a screenshot of my Blog viewed from my Nokia N72 mobile phone.

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