I decided recently that I wanted to use a social bookmarking plug-in* on this blog. The choice came down to one of two: Add To Any or Sociable. After a day of fiddling with both, I finally opted for Sociable. Both plug-ins are very good, and each has things it does better than the other. [...]
Archive of posts tagged WordPress Plugins
The Agony And Ecstasy Of syntaxhighligher; Or, Why You Shouldn’t Fix What Ain’t Broke
WordPress just keeps getting better. Release 2.6 includes a several new features, such as wiki-style version control for posts, a toolbar-based “blog this” control, support for Google Gears (which promises to be a major breakthrough in Web development), native word counts, native image captioning, SSL support, and bubble notification when a plug-in has been upgraded. [...]
Yes, Things Look Different, Because They Are Different
This blog probably appears different because it is different. How so? It’s been upgraded to WordPress 2.3. Although it’s taken a minor revision number, WordPress 2.3 is nearly a new release with lots of new features, including: Native (built-in) tagging, which is long overdue Automatic program update notices through the Dashboard Significant and extensive URL [...]
In Praise of iG:Syntax Hiliter
You’ve probably noticed in my Programming entries, I’m using a WordPress plugin to display code in a color-formatted view with line numbers. The plugin I am using is iG:Syntax Hiliter, made by Amit Gupta, a fellow geek based in India. (I had a friend in grade school named Manish Gupta; I don’t know if maybe [...]
