sobriquet Tech

Popularity Contest Widget (1.01)

Richard Rosalion — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:49:47 +0000

I fixed a minor (but annoying) bug in the Popularity Contest Widget, as identified by Zer0, and described in this thread.

Hopefully now you won’t get the widget title displaying twice! As for the other issues Zer0 mentioned (i.e., that you can only get the most popular 10 items without modifying the plugin), I don’t have any immediate plans to change that, but it’s not hard to change - just look for the line ““and add whatever you like in the brackets! (obviously you need to know how akpc_most_popular works, but that’s more Alex King’s department…

As usual, visit the project page for more info, or to download the plugin.

Finally! Google Reader Search

Richard Rosalion — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:23:42 +0000

I’ve been using Google Reader for a long time now, ever since they did their last major update nearly 12 months ago, I put aside Egress on my Windows Mobile phone, and various desktop RSS readers in favour of Google Reader.

Of course, as anyone who’s used Google Reader knows, it lacked the one thing Google has always been known to do well - that is, search! I tried various Greasemonkey scripts, but was never happy with any of them. But now, finally GOOGLE READER HAS SEARCH!

All I can say is, … about bloody time!

Popularity Contest Widget (1.0)

Richard Rosalion — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:23:44 +0000

Popularity Contest by Alex King which assigns posts a popularity, I’ve created a quick widget to display the most popular posts in the sidebar.

View the project page for more info or to download it.

“Now Reading” Google Sitemaps Plugin (v1.1)

Richard Rosalion — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:58:03 +0000

I’ve released the first version of my “Now Reading” Google Sitemaps Plugin, a very quick-and-dirty modification to the Google Sitemaps UTW Tag Plugin.

“Now Reading” is an expansive WordPress plugin which allows you to maintain a virtual library of books. If you use Google Sitemaps, however, you might miss out on all those books being included in the sitemap.xml file it generates.

View the project page for more info or to download it.

We’ve Moved!

Richard Rosalion — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:54:32 +0000

Given there was so little there anyway, and it didn’t quite fit in with the rest of my blog, I’ve gone and moved any tech-related stuff over to it’s new home, tech.sobriquet.net.

This site has just been a quick-and-dirty wordpress install, but I’ll have a play around with it when I get the time to make it a little more like home.

Welcome, to sobriquet Tech!

Coppermine Again

Richard Rosalion — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:01:26 +0000

Well, I’ve officially been outdone! Brad Guilford has updated Texx’s coppermine plugin again, and, it’s so good, that I’m using it on my site now!

Brad seems to have made all the changes that I had (including linking directly to the coppermine page, rather than a popup window) and has added a number of other new features!

You can check out Brad’s update to this plugin at 55 Rue Plumet. So, until I find something that needs tweaking in Brad’s version, I think I’ll be quite happy to continue using his!

WordPress Coppermine Plugin 0.2.1

Richard Rosalion — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:34:38 +0000

Texx has updated his coppermine plugin, so I’ve gone and hacked it again.

Changes I’ve made:

Modified tag names so it plays nicely with Markdown
Changed links to images, linking directly to the coppermine album, rather than a custom popup window.
Fixed bug where commas after the cpg album tag would interfere with the plugin.
Added option to only display JPG files (can be customised to other file types)

Download from the WP Coppermine Plugin Project page.

Coppermine Plugin

Richard Rosalion — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:57:17 +0000

I’ve had a request for the modified code for the WordPress Coppermine Plugin, originally written by Texx. It’s just a rough hack, but I thought I’d make my code available:

Please see the file: WordPress Coppermine Plugin.

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Update: Future work and details about this plugin will be located on the WP Coppermine Plugin Project page.