I just released version 0.6.1. This update is mostly bug fixes introduced in 0.6. I apologize for all the bugs in 0.6. It was a major rewrite, and I expected bugs, but probably should have labeled it alpha. I want to especially thank Hans Klaus for doing quite a bit of testing in 0.6.1, including testing the formatting with several different themes. Here is the changelog for 0.6.1: Improved styling so that collapsing and expanding symbols use a fixed-width font, […] (Read more)

I have just a pretty major revision to collapsing categories, version 0.6. It includes the following changes: Can have multiple instances of widgets, each with separate options No longer works as non-widget All options are stored in one database row Added more sorting options Added option to include or exclude certain categories Added option to expand certain categories by default Added option to have category names either link to category archive or to activate expanding and collapsing I realized this […] (Read more)

I am happy to announce the release of my fourth collapsing X plugin for WordPress. This one is Collapsing Links, which was requested by several users of my other plugins. With the development of this plugin, I finally added the ability to have multiple instances of the widget. This took some careful study of some of the default wordpress plugins, and forced me to completely re-design how the plugin options are handled. In addition to the ability to have multiple […] (Read more)

Friendfeed released an API a couple weeks ago. This made me excited, as I figured I could write a wordpress plugin to grab comments people leave on my friendfeed back into the blog. I did not of course find the time to do this right away, as I have already been spending way too much time working on my 2 other wordpress plugins (Collapsing Categories and Collapsing Archives). Today I discovered that someone had already beaten me to the punch. […] (Read more)

I am now trying out the scribefire Firefox extension for xml-rpc blogging, since I have discovered that QTM does not support image uploading, and it seems that scribefire does. It allows one to resize images, but it does not seem to create thumbnails. I will probably stick to posting the old-fashioned way, but it is nice to know that there are some other options.