MicroWiki is not a plugin.
It seems like I've been working on MicroWiki forever. There are many complex and nuanced emotions for me surrounding MicroWiki. I use it for nearly everything that I don't do with WordPress, so you can imagine how that might affect my feelings toward it.
At the same time, I've bashed the code to death. "Spindle" and "mutilate" are the words I would use to best describe the things I do routinely with MicroWiki after I get it installed somewhere. And every time I think "Hey, this is nearly ready for packaging!" I think of something else that it really should be doing better than it does, and I end up merging code from four different sites to get a revision with everything I've added.
In fact, I'll lay it out for you right here and now: You will not understand this code, even though it runs.
That said, if you want a wiki, maybe this is for you, and maybe it isn't. more
On the #wordpress channel on IRC, someone had requested some adjustments to the Countdown plugin that I wrote a while back, so I took a look at that project and decided to make a few small updates.
Countdown displays a list of dates to remember. You create a list of events, and Countdown outputs those events on your blog. The events can recur, so you can put in single dates like "06-04 Owen's Birthday (Observed)" and it will show that on the same day every year.
There are some more complex recurring settings, too, like the ever helpful:
1st sun apr Daylight Savings Starts
Note that this event recurs on the first Sunday of every April.
Previous users will recognize these settings from before, but I have added a few new little things to sweten up the plugin. more
Have you noticed slowness when posting lately? I've seen more than a few recommendations on how to fix this issue, but no real fix for the fix.
WordPress 2.0 has moved the essential trackback/pingback/enclosure mechanics into a special script that gets loaded separately from when you publish a post. Instead of cycling through all of the pingbacks and trackbacks that it has queued before returning control to the browser (like in version 1.5), the publication process spawns a request for the special script and just continues normally.
The result is that you don't wait for pingbacks to finish when you publish, and they still get published properly, but in the background. So what's causing the big delay these days, if that mechanism is set up to prevent it? more
Whew.
There has been a lot of turmoil on the WordPress hacker mailing list about features for the next version of WordPress. If you didn't get your chance to join the fun, you might want to read up on the craziness that people have suggested for improving WordPress before you start shooting off suggestions.
Today marks the first commit of the big new features, and it's a doozy. I say "doozy" not because it's a fantastic feature (oh, but it is), but because it's a big change. I'll explain it a little and maybe you'll see why it's so cool.
But you should know now, if this affects you - You might want to stop updating your site from SVN for a little while. Of course, if you do this via script, it might already be too late. Eek. more
Over the past couple months, and particularly over the last two days, it has become interesting to me what kinds of visitors I am getting to the site and where they're coming from. There are a few stats packages, and I've been working out their benefits and flaws.
I was able to jump on the Google Analytics train before they closed their doors. I installed the required script in the necessary places and waited for stats to roll in. And I waited. And I waited.
Eventually they had enough data to play with (do I not even register in the Google Analytics world as anything but a blip?) and they started showing me some statistics. But. How do you use this thing? Even being a former Urchin 5.0 user, I was still somewhat confused by the interface. Suffice to say, I never really figured it out, and I started to suspect that using Analytics was affecting my AdSense adversely (though I can offer no evidence that this is anything but paranoia), so I simply removed the tags.
Isn't there something that you can just push a button and get the stats you need? And exactly what stats do you need? more
