Just updated my blog to use the latest 3K2 theme which is exceedingly widget friendly and looks really nice – not to mention working much better with the Gallery2 plugins – no more wierd overlays!
The only oddity is the automatic archives page – I get a 404 for it even though it’s been created and the ELA plugin is installed and activated. Ah well!
Worked with Rich testing the alpha version of the 0.1.10 release of his Most Wanted WordPress plugin that picked up patches from Rodney Shupe to implement WordPress Widget support.
A bit of patching, tweaking and general getting confused later it’s up and running in my widget sidebar – nice one folks!
(With apologies to Jack Dee).
Just did a quick revamp of the sidebar of this blog using WordPress’s new Widgets Plugin – and I’ve got to same I’m impressed!
As it’s really really new there’s a couple of plugins that are missing from the sidebar, but I’m sure that they’ll get fixed soon (hint hint!)..
Using ajax/dhtml style goodness with Javascript it suddenly becomes fairly trivial to insert, re-arrange, remove or otherwise modify your sidebar. As more plugins get converted to widgets I predict this is going to be a big boost for making WordPress even easier to use. Nice work guys!
So it appears that WordPress 2.1 will gain a spellchecker which sounds good. It won’t affect me much though as I use the excellent built in HTML form spellchecker in the Konqueror browser from KDE. 🙂
Oops, looks like I inadvertently upset Mikal, which wasn’t intentional!
The only reason I got a little miffed was because I got a message that instead of saying “1 comment held for moderation” said something like “1 spam comment removed, you can be the first to leave a real message“. Anyway, it’s all fine now..
I’m using the Akismet plugin to WordPress (now a standard part of the install) which does a damn fine job of spotting spam.
I see Michael Fox has got a new WordPress blog going – so this is just to give him a free trackback.. 🙂
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2 that’s just come out to address some unpublished cross-site-scripting attacks.. If you notice anything odd then please let me know!
Just installed the Structured Blogging plugin for WordPress (version v1.0pre13) which provides hidden, machine readable metadata for certain type of blog posts (like film reviews) as well as the usual human readable content. Say “hello” to the Semantic Web folks..
As a test I’ve re-published my review of Kenny, below (original here), with it as a comparison, got to say it makes it look quite professional!
Fun fun fun! Now integrated more plugins for various bits of neatness such as the WordPress Gallery2 Plugin that lets me both integrate my gallery2 installation into WordPress and to easily put piccies from Gallery2 into blog postings – like this..
Neat eh ? :-)  It’s also doing the random image in the sidebar on the right..
I’ve also been playing around with another of Rich’s plugins – this time for the automatic generation of Technorati tags so this is a bit of a test to see if it’ll do what it says on the can..