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.
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…
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.
I don’t know when I’m going to find time, but I need to write this new little thing. It’s going to let you attach an Amazon-style “star vote” bar to the bottom of posts in a particular category. It should also provide a way to list posts (perhaps even within a specific date range) ranked by their average vote.
Why? For Free For All Friday, of course.
