Asymptomatic

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BSG
March 13, 2005

By the way… I just wanted to mention that I’ve now seen the entire first season of the new Battlestar Galactica, and if you will just give me a copy of the upcoming broadcast season I will gladly perform any service you like - network install, gutter cleaning, murder, whatever - just so I can get over the cliffhanger.

Oh, man… In that last episode, when ***** finds out that ***** is a Cylon, and then when s/he does what s/he does on Galactica. Holy crap! I will say that I was kind of disappointed with the “Don’t shoot her” aspect of the Caprica storyline, but it was worth it for what followed.

Ocadia
March 13, 2005

She’s not quite done with it, but I couldn’t wait to tell you about how Becca (she made the totally sweet design for Asymptomatic) is soon to release her first free theme for WordPress 1.5, Ocadia. Becca’s designs are awesome.

She has entered it in Alex’s theme competition, where the good free designs are really starting to pile up. Hopfully, more folks will start uploading their themes to wp-themes.org, which contains themes that are all free for use on your own WordPress site.

Admin, We Have a Problem...
March 11, 2005

Ack! There has been a sudden surge in plugin releases that make use of the new add_options_page() function. I think it’s great that the community is so interested in extending WordPress this way with such great features. But there’s a problem…

If your plugin’s options page only has one item on it (like a single checkbox or a textbox), then you’re taking up a relative ton of real estate on the admin console to enable your options.

Take this Amazon ASIN linker plugin for example. It’s a great idea. But it you install 4 of these options-light plugins, you’ve got an Options menu that streches all the way across the screen!

It’s not a problem with the design of any one plugin, but unless plugin devs start interacting with one another, the issue could escalate.

So what’s a plugin developer to do? Here’s an idea…

MicroWiki 1.3 Update
March 11, 2005

I have updated the MicroWiki code to fix a couple of bugs and add move and delete capabilities.

For those who are unfamiliar with MicroWiki, you can use it with my EzStatic plugin (or by itself) to create a wiki inside your WordPress layout that is independent from the posts/pages structure of WordPress. You can choose to use WordPress authentication (only WordPress authors on your blog can modify the wiki), integrated authentication (where every user has a password that is maintained by MicroWiki), or no authentication (like most vanilla wikis). It’s a nice and simple one-file solution if you’re looking to add user-contributed documentation to your blog. Check out my installation of MicroWiki.