scriptygoddess

I haven’t been posting any plugin notifications (not that weren’t mine anyway) basically because Weblog Tools Collection and Blogging Pro do a much better job of that. But once in awhile I need to make note of a plugin that I KNOW I’m going to want to use.

PhotoPress
(quoted from that site) “Photopress is a plugin that adds a set of helper tools to Wordpress to make working with images much easier. It adds a pop-up uploader and a pop-up image browser to the posting page and a groovy random image function for your template.”

[found via Weblog Tools Collection]

I know this has been asked for some time. You can thank the snow storm we got here in the northeast, that made me stick around long enough to get it done.

I’ve updated my wpPaginate plugin to work with WP 1.5. I got a lot of inspiration from the Custom Posts Per Page plugin (and my plugin should work in conjunction with that one).

Current Version: v. .2.2
Last Updated: 1/25/04 9:30 PM EST
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One problem I recently ran into with Above The Fold, was that for category pages, I wanted to display ALL items in that category on the category page - but on the home page - I wanted to display just the last 8 added items.

I was going to start writing a hack or plugin to do this - but as it turns out - there’s already one that does it:

Custom Posts Per Page
[thanks to Sam for the link]

I’ve been finding that A LOT of things I can ever think of to do with WordPress - 99.9% of the time - someone has already written a plugin or a hack to do it. It’s really quite awesome

I’ve been a little absent around here lately, and part of the reason is that I’ve been working on a project that I can now formally announce here! I’m starting up a little side business. You see, I’ve always loved doing origami - from the time that I was a kid. I can’t even remember when I started. And now I’ve decided to turn some of my creations into things I can share. Ok… sell. My little side business is called Above The Fold (AboveTheFold.org) and it’s an online store for (at the moment) origami earrings, cards, and magnets. (More things will be coming).

(As for the .org - instead of the .com - the squatter “owner” of the .com is willing to sell it… for a mere $7K! heh. I’ll be lucky if I sell 5 pairs of earrings this whole year!! LOL! I don’t think it’s in my budget!)

This may not seem very “scripty” related - but actually it is. When working on my ecommerce site, I briefly looked into some pre-made web-shops, but they were all a little “too big” for what I wanted to do. I wanted to add products easily. I wanted to have “add to cart” buttons automatically generated.. etc. etc. I thought I’d just start writing something on my own - but then realized that I could probably do A LOT of what I wanted with WordPress!! Not sure how many ecommerce sites are WordPress driven - but I did it quite easily. Now that it’s up and running, I can see more “ecommerce” type “plugins” I can add - but for now, I’m busy making origami.

But I thought, for those interested, I might share some of my little tricks that make the site run. Many of them are take-offs on what I did for Christine with Pixelog.
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Here’s a few steps you can do to protect against some of the spambots:

Master-SpamBot IP, deny this!
[found via weblogtoolscollection]

JD just sent me this link to his site:

Script to rename your wp-admin folder.
As he says - it’s not a foolproof method to protect your site, but certainly not a bad idea.

UploadBin
Kind of like pastebin - but for files, and Mark offers it up so you can download and host it on your own server.

wp-hashcash
A version of Spam Stopgam Extreme.
[seen on a lot of sites, but most recently on PhotoMatt and Weblogtoolscollection]

WordPress “Suggest” plugin
Kind of like “Google’s Suggest” feature - for WordPress Searches.
[blogginpro]

WP-lists Plugin
Centralized List management (through wordpress?)
[blogginpro]

The WP-Gallery Plugin 0.1 offers a nice, easy way to include your Gallery albums and photos within a WP powered blog.

Earlier this week, the 1.2.2 version of WordPress was released. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues and is recommended for all 1.2 users. More about the upgrade in the WP Development blog. Wondering what files changed? Here’s a list.

There’s a pretty serious security bug with WP 1.2.1 (and the current 1.3 alpha), one that can make it so your blog is basically unusable (not permanently, as far as I can tell) but still - if you’re using WordPress you should probably make this change.

In any case, here is how you fix the problem. It’s a very easy fix. If you can search for text on a page, you can fix this problem.

I hesitated posting this, because I don’t want to “start a panic” - nor do I want to give instructions on how to hack WP blogs. But I do think it’s important that people go ahead and make this change.

[brought to my attention by Christine]