Journal
A while ago I released a small plugin that ended up becoming quite popular, and then it broke. Not through any fault of my own (thankfully), but because the Wordpress folks decided to redesign the Wordpress admin when developing Wordpress 2.5, changing pretty much everything in the process.
Then Kerry Webster came along and made his own version of the plugin which works with 2.5, and he kindly said I could nab his changes and add them to mine. So that’s exactly what I did. I took the parts I needed and blended them into the new version of bm-custom-login.
But that’s not all… not only does the plugin now work with Wordpress 2.5 but it has been also been modified to work with Wordpress MU. All very exciting, and hopefully this update will stop all the comments I have been getting about it not working with 2.5 …
A year and a bit ago I wrote a tutorial on splitting the comments, trackbacks and pingbacks up on your wordpress blogs. Then a few months ago Daniel from DailyBlogtips wrote a post on the same subject (a couple people even mentioned my post in the comments 
). I decided then a plugin was needed to do this.
The basics were easy but I was having issues calling the splitter function without user intervention, I like to make things as simple as possible and it just wasn’t working for me. Then, a couple of weeks ago, this post on weblogtoolscollection talked about a similar topic and I noticed the comments_array plugin hook, a hook I hadn’t seen before.
Once I knew what to do it only took me 5 minutes to put it all together (it’s easy when you know how) and I now have a finished working …
The last couple of months I have been spending my free time working on a new website and premium theme.
The website is called Pro Theme Design, and the theme is Mimbo Pro.
Pro Theme Design
Pro Theme Design is a Wordpress theme blog and premium theme store. You will be able to purchase premium themes and read tips on developing themes all in one spot. Yes, there’s paid stuff but I also intend to give away freebies, for example I have also created an icon set, which I will be distributing via Pro Theme Design.
Mimbo Pro
At the start of the year I knew I would be making the Pro Theme Design website, and I thought it would be cool to work with other developers on the themes. The first person I thought to contact was Darren Hoyt, the developer of incredibly successful Mimbo.
We have been working together …
In my excitement to get the BM-Comment-Highlight plugin out yesterday I forgot to tell you how to actually use the thing. Also since posting it yesterday I have though of another feature for the plugin so I have updated it accordingly.
How to use BM-Comment-Highlight
To use the plugin all you have to do is include a single php function call in your wordpress loop. This will return to you a string that you can use as a class in any way you see fit.
<?php foreach ( $comments as $comment ) {
$commentClass = bm_commentHighlight(); ?>
<li class=”<?php echo $commentClass; ?>”>
<?php comment_text(); ?>
</li>
<?php } ?>
When the function is called you will get a number of classes returned (most likely more than one). These let you style the comment appropriately.
The classes you get are:
- author - the commenter is the post author
- reader - the commenter is simply a reader of the blog
- user - the …
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how to upload plugins to Wordpress.org - and now I give to you, my second Wordpress plugin - bm-comment-highlight.
Comment Highlight does exactly what it says on the tin. If you look around you will find that there are a lot of plugins that do what bm-comment-highlight does, namely add extra classes to comments so that you can make them look different, but none work in the way bm-comment-highlight does.
The problem I had was that I wanted to automate the process, I wanted it to work well when you have multiple authors, and I wanted to have more control over the styling. Since there was nothing that worked the way I wanted I wrote my own.
Most current plugins simply give you a single class to style your comments with. This means that all the comments …
I recently got my bm-custom-login plugin accepted onto the Wordress plugin repository. In order to get it online I had to use subversion - something I’ve never used before.
I found the “using svn page” on wordpress.org to be rather intimidating. For example the first section “getting started” jumps straight into telling you what commands to type without even mentioning the basic things such as what to download. This seems to go against the simple software the Wordpress team try to promote so I thought I’d work it out for myself and document the process. It was considerably simpler than expected.
Before we start
Since this is a tutorial for uploading Wordpress plugins I think I should point out that you will need a Wordpress.org account, and to have submitted an application for them to host your plugin. Once you get the confirmation email (which seems to take a couple of …
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