I have tried for some time to make following: having WordPress installed in a root of host (like example.com) and having content below root (like example.com/page, or example.com/custom-post-type/entry), while having blog posts in special directory (like example.com/blog). This is needed when blog is not main type of content on WordPress powered website, but instead is [...]
I kind of adopted plugin Cache Images whose original author was infamous Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress. Since I needed this functionality for my own needs, and this (and all similar plugins) was outdated, I rewrote it and send my changes to Matt who in turn gave me rights to update this plugin in wordpress.org [...]
With my new plugin, Gravatar Signup Encouragement, I had a problem with translation of string that is used only on activation. That string contains default message that is saved in database. No matter what I tried, it would always save original string, not translation. After asking question on wp-hackers mailing list and exchanging several replies [...]
Gravatar Signup Encouragement is my first publicly released plugin for WordPress. I got idea to write it after reading comments on post on Weblog Tools Collection titled “Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream”. At that same day I made first version of plugin and posted link to it’s download page as comment on post waiting [...]