# Definitely check out the special episode of WordPress Weekly podcast (RSS) hosted by Jeff Chandler where Matt Mullenweg explains why WordPress, GPL and Open Source matters.
I am finally publishing my Widget Context plugin as an α release at the official plugin repository. If you find a bug, or if you know how to fix that bug where the context settings are not saved for widgets that are added fresh to the sidebar on the first ‘Save’, then please leave a comment. Read more »
# Here is a list of plugins that are currently active behind this blog. Read more »
# Here is an idea for all the ‘premium’ theme authors out there. How about releasing themes under GPL and making style.css the only commercial asset. This would even fall into a much lighter gray area compared to Automattic’s own ‘Custom CSS’ feature (which in fact is a feature provided by GPL code) for $15/year. Ironically, this is a fee for the ability to modify a theme released under GPL.
# Leon Chevalier — author of the amazing PHP Speedy plugin — has updated it to work with WordPress 2.7. Read more »
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I have managed to add this blog as a subscriber to my identi.ca account. This means that I can post directly from Identi.ca (or any other application that supports OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) protocol, such as Laconi.ca) to my blog.
To achieve this I wrote a plugin that uses the power of XRDS-Simple plugin to generate Yadis document which specifies the location of OAuth and postNotice, as required by OMB (see konstruktors.com/blog/?xrds). A modified version of WP-OAuth plugin takes care of OAuth 1.0 dance (for the initial authorization and all the update notices) and adds support for receiving updates from the listenee (any Laconi.ca application on your phone, for example). Read more »
# Bitstream Charter is a glyphic serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter which I discovered only recently in Ubuntu 8.10 (it ships with X11). It is definitely one of the most beautiful serif fonts that I have ever seen. At first sight it looks similar to Liberation Serif but is more rounded and easier to read. Read more »
# Since the feedback for the mock-up of the podcast theme for was so great, here is a little preview of how far I have gotten. Read more »
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I love the new WordPress 2.7 dashboard design even despite all the bad things that I have previously said. Back then it was only a prototype and probably even the core developers didn’t have a clear and complete picture of how it is going to look and work in real-word environment.
Now when it is one minute away from the prime-time, I applaud Jane, Matt and all the designers and developers behind the overhaul who carried out the work in such a transparent and feedback driven way.
For me it is the new icon-only-slide-right navigation bar that makes the whole administration section work so much better than I could have imagined. All the administration sections are only one click away. Navigation takes up only 40 pixels of the cheap vertical space and thus saves much of the expansive vertical area where things get done. The result is truly amazing and it makes me wonder if anyone really knew it will turn out to be this good. Read more »
# With the latest design update, I have stripped away most of the clutter in the form of secondary content. It also included removing most of the ads, just because 400 visitors a day is still to few to get more than a single click per day.
I decided to install Ozh’s Who Sees Ads plugin to make ads visible only to visitors coming from search engines. The problem, however, is that it shows ads only on the landing page and not on all pages that the user visits. Read more »
# That is 0.07 seconds per query. How fast is your WordPress on your host? Go to three random post on your blog and copy-paste those values here in comments. I am trying to decide if I should switch web host. Read more »
