I was asked recently whether the Popupper plugin for Wordpress works when mousing over an image. I tried it to see, if I had managed to write the code good enough for it to “just work” out of the box. Sadly no, the highlighted image disappeared when I tried it out. That’s a bug for [...]

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I’m trying to go through the steps needed to internationalize (i18n) my wordpress plugins. So far I’ve hit alot of stumbling blocks:

the __() PHP function keeps giving me the error ”[error] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function __()” even though I have called load_plugin_textdomain(). From looking at other plugins, I don’t see any require_onces/includes that I [...]

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This blog has a new title. My wife has informed that she thinks the new title is not as lame as the previous one. So, I fully expect readership to double or triple.

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My wife informed me that my current blog title, ripples are reflections, is lame. Dang. For the record, I took that roughly from the Radiohead song Reckoner, which is pretty amazing in my opinion. Too bad the awesomeness of the song didn’t rub off on my blog title…
Also, the title was supposed to be ṛippleṡ ạrė [...]

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I posted here about how Verizon’s recent PBL policies affected my blog. Here is how I editted Wordpress 2.6.5 to use Verizon’s own SMTP server. Note that emails can still appear to come from whatever address I want (like a GMail account).
./wp-includes/pluggable.php

@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
}
// Set to use PHP’s mail()
- [...]

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At some point in the last week, Verizon has listed all of its residential IP address with spamhaus.org in their Policy Block List. This means that any server running at a residence can no longer send out email from an internal SMTP server. Like say… the FreeBSD Server in my basement that hosts this blog. I used [...]

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Ugh, the popupper plugin that I wrote already got bug reports from IE7 users. I work on my laptop and tested it on Safari, Camino, and Firefox. Unfortunately, I never checked out IE7. It turns out that some HTML/Javascript comments that work on Safari/Camino/Firefox don’t work on IE7.
My plugin was creating HTML that looked like:

<script type=’text/javascript’>//<!–
 …
//–!></script>

… this does not work [...]

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I’ve just finished writing a new plugin for Wordpress. It allows you create popups, like the ones highlighted in blue in the last sentence. Hopefully, some bloggers out there pick it up and try it out. You can download it from the official wordpress.org page here.

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The wordpress plugin to insert popups into posts continues. It is slow going, to say the least. I’m brushing up on my PHP, SQL, Javascript, HTML/DHTML, and CSS. Any little bell or whistle I want to add currently takes about a day to figure out just because I’m rusty on all this stuff.
Currently, it correctly [...]

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My attempts to build a plugin for popping up images when you mouseover a word in a post has dragged me down into the maze of wordpress plugins. I realized shortly after starting that what I’m trying to do essentially is a security violation in wordpress. I was trying to put javascript to popup images, [...]

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