Last week, I released Version 1.0 (and quickly thereafter, Version 1.1) of a WordPress plugin called Plugin Stats! The plugin is designed for WordPress plugin developers to keep track of downloads of their plugins. The plugin graphs the number of downloads in three different ways:
Over the weekend, I quietly released Twitterdoodle, a WordPress plugin which allows a user to create posts and categories based on Twitter keyword searches. It uses Summize to provide search results.
WP-Crontrol has hit 1.0! The powerful new features in this version allow you to take complete control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Here’s what’s new:
If you use the XML Sitemap Generator and Organize Series plugins for WordPress, then this is something you can use to get your series more noticed by Google and other search engines which pay attention to XML Sitemaps. If you take a look in your sitemap (http://example.com/sitemap.xml), you’ll notice that the series that you’ve been working hard to put together are no where to be seen. That’s because you have to let the Sitemap Generator know about them. The code snippet below, perfect for the functions.php file of your theme, will do just that.
ImmerStat is a plugin I wrote over the weekend after getting tired of the Flash applet that displays statistics for the WordPress.com Stats plugin. It’s overkill when I just want to get a general idea of where I’m sitting at the moment stats-wise. ImmerStat gets rid of the WordPress.com Stats widget from the Dashboard and replaces it with an ever-present .PNG in the top-right corner of the admin screen.
Update (6/6/08): WP-Crontrol has hit 1.0! Check out the release post.
WP-Crontrol is a plugin I wrote that’s been up on WordPress.org for a couple months now, but I’ve just today finished a version that has all the features and polish to be called a release. WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Here’s what it let’s you do:
I’ve updated the code that I published a couple days ago. It now supports multiple blogs and three notification methods:
A more primitive alternative to using a python script for notification about new comments is to just use good ol’ AppleScript. Apparently, it can do XML-RPC calls and Growl notifications out-of-the-box (with Growl installed, at least). The script below will go out and check for new comments on your blog. It’ll only do it once as I didn’t want to dig into this too much, but maybe it’s also possible to sleep in AppleScript.
Matt Mullenweg mentioned earlier today a plugin/application combo that displays a system tray popup on Windows whenever you have comments awaiting moderation. He also expressed a desire to see something like that for OSX. I thought it’d be nice too and given the lovely weather, I had some time on my hands.
