If you go to a post on streetsblog.org, type in a beautifully written comment, fill in the rest of the fields including 5+7 is, um, 13 and hit “Post”, you get “Error: You have entered the wrong sum in the spam protection field…” Damn! So you hit Back and go to correct your error only to find that your comment is gone and you’ll have to type it all over again. Sucks! (more…)
Today I released a new version of the Top Post from Category plugin, v.0.3. This widget is now a multi-widget, that is, it is built to allow multiple instances of itself on a single sidebar, each serving the top post of a different category. This feature had been requested a few times by people including the bloggers at GothamSchools. I figured out how to do this by using the example at the bottom of the wp-includes/widgets.php file.
The other thing I added is a drop-down listing of categories for the admin ui. This saves people having to lookup their category id themselves.
Please go here for more information, to ask questions and to comment on this plugin.
This release removes the dependency on the excerpt reloaded plugin and fixes the “more” tag which used to disappear when you overrode the excerpt. For more information and to leave comments, go here.
Today I uploaded v.0.1 of the “top post from category” WordPress plugin to wordpress.org. Read more information about the plugin and leave comments here.