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I’ve finally sorted out all the wordpress.org stuff and we’re up and running with a fresh SVN repository for this plugin. To kick things off I have released Version 0.2 of the plugin which is also the first stable release.

This release adds some nice icons to represent the direction arrows, served up using my previously mentioned technique for self-serving images with PHP. There is also some general clean-up of the code and some proper checking to ensure that there are categories/posts to actually display.

Last weekend while working on the next version of the Order Posts wordpress plugin, I discovered a neat little solution to a trivial problem.

Most plugins in Wordpress are generally just single PHP files, making them super simple to install/upgrade. There is one problem of course, which is that if you do need to use images in your plugins, you generally have to make a folder for your plugin instead of just the single file. Thankfully wordpress doesn’t have any issue with this and is quite willing to drill down multiple levels of folder structure to grab your code, but it’s not incredibly elegant and definitely not very user friendly when it comes time for the non-techies to update a plugin.

So, back to what I was saying about working on my plugin; I wanted to replace the ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons with something more meaningful, like up and down arrows. Simple! 5 minutes and 1 Kilobyte later I had two good looking gif’s and the unfortunate dilemma of messing up my one-file plugin. (more…)

I’m forwarding this to you, kind readers, on behalf of the Musicadium crew. I realise I haven’t really given too much of an insight into what’s going on with our lovely little side-project, yet there has been a lot going on behind the curtain (I promise).

Musicadium has new investors on-board and new systems, software and websites are being designed and developed as we speak. There really is too much to tell in such a short space, but there is a new Position available for one lucky applicant. I’ll leave you with the official advert: (more…)