Vladimir on September 5th, 2008

Today I am announcing two new WordPress plugins I have been busy with lately. They both carry a pretty special personal note to a blog.

First one is called WP Figlet and basically what it does is allow you to draw ASCII…

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Vladimir on August 28th, 2008

Dogfooding or ‘eating one’s own dog food’ is a term used for a company that is confident in it’s own product (if it was a dog food they would feed their own dog with it).

Moki Guarding Her FoodI thought it is a rather…

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Vladimir on August 25th, 2008

I have noticed few inconsistencies in the WordPress 2.6.1 code regarding the methods to add content boxes to the WordPress Write Post panel.

The old way included using


add_action(’dbx_post_advanced’, ‘myplugin_old_custom_box’ );
add_action(’dbx_post_sidebar’, ‘myplugin_old_custom_box’ );

which would add a box to the Advanced section and…

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Vladimir on August 2nd, 2008

I have installed today a forum on the site. The purpose of the forum will be to connect the users of my plugins and themes, providing a more flexible support area.

Also I have created areas to discuss general WordPress issues…

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Vladimir on July 27th, 2008

In case you missed this years WordPress plugin competition this is a quick reminder. Over 50 plugins entered, with few very fresh and useful ideas.

I have participated with 10% of those plugins, June was a plugin month for me, lots…

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Vladimir on July 18th, 2008

Very, very hot topic as a wave of WordPress blogs get’s hacked every day.

I made a dedicated page dealing with this issue. Go to WordPress Security Notes .

Those are quick notes of things to check.

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Vladimir on July 18th, 2008

WordPress theme directory is back online, allowing theme uploads again. That’s great news and I hope for a versioning system and automatic theme updates - just like the plugins.

I have updated Amazing Grace theme with new WordPress 2.6 tweaks (mostly…

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