January 2010
Learning Erlang
I’m learning Standard ML in Principles of Programming (15-212). I didn’t think I would like the functional programming paradigm but it’s starting to grow on me. Having functions as first class values allows you to do some pretty neat things that would be a pain in other languages and some of the programming idioms are [...]
Related Posts Widget 1.0
Related Posts Widget shows a list of posts with similar tags to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. That is, it is only shown when is_single() returns true.
Features:
Support for displaying thumbnail images via WP 2.9’s new post thumbnail feature.
Set how many posts to show.
Option to show the post excerpt and [...]
December 2009
Category Posts Widget 3.0
This latest update introduces a few new features:
Support for WordPress 2.9’s post thumbnails.
Option to show the post date.
Option to show the comment count.
Option to set the word length of the excerpt.
Note that support for Simple Post Thumbnails has been removed in favor of the built in functionality.
You can download the plugin at the WordPress plugin repository: Download here.
Please [...]
July 2009
Category Posts Widget 2.0
Update: Category Posts Widget has been updated to version 3.0!
I just released a long overdue update to Category Posts Widget. At the time of this writing, it has been downloaded over 23,500 times and has an average of 4.5 stars from 22 people!
CPW 2.0 has been included with Press75 themes for sometime now. I haven’t heard any [...]
April 2009
Simple Plugins for Press75.com
I wrote a couple WordPress plugins for Jason Schuller over at Press75.com. Jason designs premium themes for WordPress. Many of his themes have been video centric and he asked me to write a couple plugins to make it easier for his customers to post videos.
Simple Video Embedder adds a widget to the posting screen with fields [...]
November 2008
Category Posts Widget update
I made a small update to my Category Posts Widget plugin regarding the problems people were having with displaying excerpts. Thanks to “carnyfeet” who posted the fix in this thread on the WordPress forums.
You can download the update at the official WordPress plugin repository or use the automatic update feature in newer versions of WordPress.
Thanks to everyone [...]
April 2008
Category Posts Widget 1.3
Update: Category Posts Widget has been updated to version 3.0!
As promised, I’ve updated Category Posts Widget. Version 1.3 brings one new feature to the table: an option to show a post excerpt. I also converted the widget to the new WordPress 2.5 system of adding multiple widgets so 1.3 will only work on WordPress 2.5 or later. [...]