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Added ‘email subscribe to’ my wpmu blog

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I just spent a few hours this morning installing, configuring and troubleshooting http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/tag/installation/
The idea is that readers can register and get emailed about certain categories of topic I write about, as many people are not yet using an RSS reader. This would especially be a boon to my friends and family back home most of […]

Canadian Tech Mob Wordpress Widget

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

This morning I quickly hacked together a widget for wordpress to have it display the CanadianTechMob jscript badge. I did this so I can keep my wpmu installation clean of random edits to a particular theme’s sidebar HTML.
The code is largely a rip off of phtechnorati.php Version: 1.0 by Philipp Heinze, PhSoftware
Attached is the code: […]

Wordpress Widgets - not just for the sidebar.

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

The files below are from my hacked version of widgets. It implements a render replacement of [[Widget Name]] with a call to that widget. This means widgets are freed from the sidebar and can be embedded into a posting.

widgets/README.txt - needs updating
widgets/widgets.php - see diff
widgets/wpmu_widget_bindings.php - this maps [[]] names to functions
widgets/mrjc_widgetize_function.php - this holds […]

Widgets - not just for the sidebar

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

To: wordpress widgets team @ Automattic.com
Hi,
I made some modifications to the widget code to allow it to also serve widgets embedded into postings. The existing syntax is not jeopardized at all. Now you can addtionally say [[Widget Name]] and the widget will appear in a posting.
Is this functionality that the WP team would like?
Thanks,
Martin

Martin@Cleaver.org MSc […]