I’ve been working a lot lately on some major rewrites to all 4 of the collapsing X wordpress plugins I have written. All 4 of them now have the following features: All use the same javascript file, which will only get loaded once, in case you use more than 1 of the plugins No longer use external css files. Instead, the css styling is set through an option, which should be easier to configure, and also reduces http requests, speeding […] (Read more)

thanksgiving collage This is mostly a test feed to see if this works. Daniel Pritchett modified the media rss wordpress plugin to get it to work with friendfeed. You can get the code here. It seems like it just adds a thumbnail attribute to a media tag. By “working with friendfeed”, I mean that friendfeed will automatically include pictures in your feed from your blog. I’ll try my thanksgiving collage picture one more time, since I like it so much. (Read more)

thanksgiving collage I upgraded to Picasa 3 a couple weeks ago. I didn’t upgrade right away, because it took awhile for the linux version to come out. I can happily say that Picasa 3 works great under linux from my experience. It was easy to install (they had an rpm available), and it runs very nicely. It seems like it even runs a bit faster than Picasa 2.6. But best of all, it has some really cool new features. One […] (Read more)

My wordpress plugins generate a lot of comments. Personally, I find it can be pretty hard to scroll through all the comments, and it can be quite slow to load as well. I have decided to try out bbpress for comments on my wordpress plugins. I created a forum for each plugin. I have turned off comments for the collapsing archives pages, and instead ask you to use the forum. We’ll see how that goes. If people don’t like it, […] (Read more)

I have been very busy lately, but I have been working on the collapsing archives update for awhile. I have incorporated new features from collapsing categories into it, while trying to keep all the old features. One thing I have learned is that it is difficult to write code with many options, especially when some of them interact. Since I released the collapsing categories update a bit prematurely, I have dubbed this one 0.9.alpha, and I have not given it […] (Read more)