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Quick update

I’ll post this here, because I haven’t got around to putting a Twitter status on this blog yet (in fact I’m planning on changing the theme anyway, yes again) so it’s easier to put a status update in a short blog post.
You will have noticed that I haven’t posted the StayPress downloads yet. I’ve got [...]

When small is beautiful

I feel the need for some light relief and a bit of coding “fun”. So if you’re a developer and fancy yourself as a bit of a “zen master”, then pop on over to wpmu.org and take on my challenge.
I’ve set things going for you. The bar is pretty high in my (humble) opinion. My [...]

Week beginning - 4th May 2009

As, thankfully despite the delays, a lot of people are still eager for updates and news, I am going to start posting at the beginning of each week the planned schedule of releases and updates.
Over the past few weeks a large part of my time has been taken up with development on a new system [...]

Looking for something that isn’t here?

We’re in the middle of a move to a new layout and server. If you have followed a link in from another site and received a very unhelpful 404 Not Found error then you may be a bit annoyed to realise that the content you are looking for isn’t here anymore, or hasn’t made it’s [...]

A friendly warning

In the spirit of being nice, kind and considerate, I thought I would take a few minutes to pass on the following warning.
All of the pages on this blog will cease to exist in their current location or state from tomorrow. Blog posts will remain as-is, but pages (i.e. plugin descriptions, etc..) will be moving [...]

Removing WordPress dashboard widgets

For some reason, unknown to us mere mortals, there doesn’t seem to be a built in WordPress function to remove an already added dashboard widget.
Now, others will probably argue that there is no need for such a function, or that there are other ways and means to change the display and / or layout of [...]

Weblogtoolscollection plugin competition 2009

The major prize-fest that is the Weblogtoolscollection.com Plugin competition is now in it’s fourth year and is due to start on the 1st May with entries due in by the end of July.
There is already a minimum of a $1000 dollar prize fund, so head on over and create something fantastic.
I won’t be entering this [...]

Scaling your WordPress MU database with HyperDB

Trent Adams has just written up the first part of a tutorial to guide to setting up HyperDB on your WordPress MU installation.
HyperDB is a replacement for the standard WPDB class which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.
I personally don’t use HyperDB as I have [...]

Plugin: StayPress administration system BETA

Warning: This plugin is quite capable of stopping you from accessing your WordPress administration panel. If it does, then you will need to FTP into your server and remove the sp_administration folder and it’s contents from your plugins directory. ... [More] You should then be able to access the system again.
I have tested this plugin on WordPress [...] [Less]

Screencast - StayPress admin plugin

I am in the process of packaging up this early beta version of the StayPress administration plugin. I will post a notice on here and on Twitter when it is available for download. Whilst I’ve been playing with it, tweaking and bug fixing all week, it should be considered for the brave only at present.
It [...]