Anthology of Ideas

Multi-plugin is a very simple script that allows you to add small bits of PHP scripts, such as WordPress filters, without having to make a plugin for them. Download Multi-plugin Installation is as simple as renaming the file to .php, uploading it to your server, activating it, and adding some script to the textbox (for example, I use the following code to remove the nofollow attribute from comments.) <?php add_filter(&#039;get_comment_author_link&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); add_filter(&#039;comment_text&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); function aoi_follow($link){ return preg_replace(&#039;/(<a.*?rel[^>]*)nofollow(.*?)/&#039;,&#039;${1}${2}&#039;,$link); } ?> You can also use the following to add the trailing slash back onto feeds, categories, pages, etc.

No, this post isn’t about making a difference; it is about the blogger (specifically myself) and advertising, so be warned that this post will be in a far more conversant style than I usually use. In a perfect world people would throw money at me like confetti for every word that flows like poetry out of my keyboard, unfortunately as those extremely annoying commercials reminded us, we don’t live in perfect and are forced to live in reality.

I recently made a post that included an introduction, a YouTube video and some thoughts on it. By itself it is nothing impressive, but by using it as a test for the developmental version of INAP the WOW factor just went through the roof. You can take a look at the post/video/demo here I think you agree that it is quite impressive even with the special effect bug. INAP is finally maturing and all of its features that were slowly created over time are finally coming together.

Here is another composite image video from YouTube. This one shows the evolution of women’s faces through the style of painting over the previous 500 years in Western art.

I’m finally starting to rev all of the plugins and widgets that are still popular on this site to work with WordPress 2.2. WordPress 2.2 is considered a mandatory upgrade, so this means that, among other things, that I will be dropping support for WordPress 2.0 in all of my plugins (some may still work, but I will not support them.) Where have I been? Long story short: the computer I use for programming finally gave up the ghost, but in typical electronics fashion decided to drag it out over the past month, so it was in and out of repair shops and emergency triage holding all web and programming materials hostage.

Updated June 23 2007 — added WP 2.2 Support, removed 2.0 support, added ability to restrict sneak peeks to specific categories. The Sneak Peaks widget allows you to list some of the upcoming posts on your site to allow visitors to get a glimpse of what is coming and encourage them to return. The widget is very simple, but allows you to customize the title, number of posts shown and the display text of each sneak peek using some simple tags.