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I’ve just updated this blog to WordPress 2.6 which was released today. Most notable feature is the built-in version control which makes WordPress even more similar to other CMS systems than it already was. In fact, there’s probably more emphasis recently on turning WordPress into a generic CMS rather than just blogging software. The WordPress […]

With help from a couple of nifty plugins, this site is now optimised for viewing on either the iPhone or iPod Touch. So if you’re reading this in your feed reader and you’re lucky enough to have one of Apple’s beautiful devices handy, head on over and check it out for yourself. Plugins: iWPhone WordPress […]

I’ve been creating a bunch of WordPress plugins recently. They are really easy to make and the documentation is great. I don’t really know much about PHP but it has the same structure as the way I write VBscript, i.e. write a bunch of functions, then call them with parameters. Most of the plugins I’ve […]

[tags]wordpress,plugins,comment,notification,alerts[/tags] Don’t you hate it when you post a comment on a blog and then have to keep checking back to see if someone has replied to your comment. Well if you post a comment on this blog you can choose to receive an email notification when a new comment is made on the same entry. […]

 I was wondering why the inline tags I was posting to WordPress with Windows Live Writer weren’t being translated into proper tags by the Simple Tagging plugin (as described here.) Turns out I was running an ancient version of Simple Tagging which didn’t have that feature. Simple Tagging is now on version 1.67 and introduces heaps […]

Time to upgrade WordPress again as Matt tells us that 2.2 (Getz) has just been released. This seems to be more of just a bug fix release with a few minor features included. No built in tagging support yet as that has been moved to the next version, 2.3.

I had no idea that NZ had its own Digg-like social news website. It’s called Scoopit, and the blurb from their blog is: Scoopit is a collection of links submitted and ranked by readers. Submit your own Scoop. View and vote for unpublished Scoops submitted by others. There’s not much content on there yet as […]

I've been studying for my next exam (Microsoft's 70-296) so I haven't spent much time reading through FeedDemon recently, so I decided to catch up this morning. I subscribe to 122 different feeds which you can look through here: OPML. There is a lot of good content out there, as well as a lot of […]

I’ve put in a couple of big updates to the Blogtown NZ site. I implemented the memcached cacheing daemon and enabled caching using the WordPress memcached plugin. I also updated to the latest nightly which fixes a lot of the bugs that have been lurking around. If you’re keen on setting up your Blogtown NZ […]

My latest blogging venture is to create a site listing all of the blogs that are based in New Zealand. I’ve created the NZ Blogs site on Blogtown NZ which is the free, blogging service that I’ve set up to make it easy for New Zealanders to start their own, local blog. I can’t track […]