http://www.zombierobot.com Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:51:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am upgrading this site to Wordpress 2.0. It's been a long time since it's come out, and it's time to get all the spiffy new features (specifically, the akismet spam-filtering service). That means, as of the next version of wp-quotes, anything below 2.0 in the wordpress series is unsupported. ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/upgrading-to-wordpress-20/ A few people have pointed out an inefficiency in the wp-quotes plugin. My plugin grabs every quote in your database, sticks in a PHP array, and then chooses a random member of that array. It's slow, but it works. Some people have pointed out that mysql supports an "order by ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/optimizing-wp-quotes/ I'm currently working in a job where I've been asked to be the tech resource for our SEO efforts. Doing a bunch of reading, I've pretty much painted a picture of the future. I'm just waiting for it to become true. I'm just magic like that. Here's my 7 predictions ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/the-future-of-search-engines-and-their-optimization/ Version 1.3 is available for download. Just head to the WP Quotes page. What kind of features do you guys want in the future? http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/wp-quotes-13-released/ Hey Guys -- I know everyone's clamoring for the latest release of wp-quotes. It's coming soon. It's going to be a mostly xhtml-related fix. I'm just swamped with a few things right now and can't get the time to patch, test, package, and release, but it'll be here by Friday! http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/update-to-wp_quotes-soon/ Welp, I totally screwed up the CSS stuff in the 1.1 release, and it was found by griff. I recommend everyone use version 1.2. This doesn't affect you if you have 1.0, that'll still work fine. wp-quotes page. http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/wp-quotes-12-released/ I've taken a bunch of feedback, and made a new version of the plugin. I'm at almost 1,000 downloads (but I don't have good tracking, so I don't know for sure), which has far exceeded my expectations for this plugin. As such, I've got a lot of feedback. Here's some ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/wp-quotes-11-released/ Marc at Full Throttle had an issue with the wp-quotes plugin. Something along the way in his config is setting the height of the div.top css element to 0, and by doing so, it hides the add/edit form for the quotes. This makes it so.. well.. you can't add or ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/wp-quotes-addedit-panel-not-showing-up/ Fortunately, in my current job, I know a little bit about this subject: what to measure, correct terminology, and formulas. With this project, however, I am in total control of every aspect. It's a little intimidating. So this is a braindump as much for me as everyone else. I hope ... http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/web-metrics-measuring-success/ I have created a new "random quotes" plugin. It stores the quotes in the database, and lets you put them anywhere you want. You can then go and style the quotes any way you want using CSS. Go to the wp-quotes page. http://www.zombierobot.com/archives/new-wordpress-plugin-wp-quotes/