Archive for the ‘plugins’ Category

Jonathan Snook has written a post about the process that freelance programmers follow. I think it applies quite strongly to plugin writers many of whom are hobbyists like myself.
The post focusses on quite an old article from Fast Company about the engineers that produced the computer code for the space shuttle programme.
The article has inspired [...]

I’ve been using Woopra for a few days now and you can colour me seriously impressed. It is amazing to watch your web stats in real time, and quite addictive. One thing it is great for though is finding out sites that use your plugin.
A visitor arrived at my site while I was watching it [...]

Weblog Tools Collection is winding up for another WordPress plugin competition, and I don’t mind admitting that I am slightly excited.
The moment I read the post I started thinking about what I could do and I have a few ideas which, for obvious reasons, will need to remain under wraps.
Before I get too carried away [...]

For quite a while I have had a problem with the readme files that get uploaded with my plugins. Whether the plugin repository read it and used it or not seemed to be random. Which left my most popular plugin, Fun with Sidebar Tabs, without the basic information on the download page.
To try and resolve [...]