Entropy, The Blog

Block DiggBar in Wordpress Plugin

Paul — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:53:53 +0000

I wrote this plugin in protest to the newly introduced [DiggBar](http://digg.com/tools/diggbar).

Simply install this plugin on your Wordpress blog and people trying to a blog post through the DiggBar will be block and this message will be displayed:

The DiggBar is blocked on this blog. [Read why](http://daringfireball.net/2009/04/how_to_block_the_diggbar).

### Download

Download from the [Wordpress Plugin Directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-diggbar/).

Source repository at [GitHub](http://github.com/paulwilliam/block-diggbar/tree/master).

### Credits

It uses code by [John Gruber](http://daringfireball.net/2009/04/how_to_block_the_diggbar).

tinyurl bash script

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:20:01 +0000

Here is a simple bash script I wrote based on [Wesley Tanaka's script](http://wtanaka.com/node/7750), which in turn was based on code from [Firefox TinyUrl Creator](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/126).

It creates a [tinyurl](http://www.tinyurl.com), echos the result, then puts it on the clipboard.



#!/bin/sh

# tinyurl creator – places tinyurl on Mac OS X clipboard

# Usage: ./tinyurl http://www.google.com

# Credits: Based on this script: http://wtanaka.com/node/7750

URL=$(wget -q -O – -U “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8″ –header=”Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1″ –header=”Accept-Language: en” –header=”Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7″ –referer=”http://tinyurl.com/” –header=”Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded” –post-data=”url=$*” http://tinyurl.com/create.php | sed -n ’s/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p’ | uniq)

echo $URL | tr -d “\n” | pbcopy

echo $URL

Upgraded to OS X 10.5.6 and Mail.app keeps crashing / hanging

Paul — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:51:19 +0000

After restarting Mail.app many times I tried disabling all my Mail.app plugins (*simply rename the /Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/Bundles to something else*). After disabling them one by one I figured out it was [GPGMail](GPGMail).

Just throwing this out there in cash anyone else experiences this problem.

**UPDATE**: An updated version of [GPGMail has been released](http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html).

Wordpress Notifier Now Compatible with Bad Behaviour

Paul — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:45:50 +0000

I have just released [Wordpress Notifier](http://www.wpnotifier.com) 0.4. It fixes a problem with incompatibility with the Bad Behavior plugin.

Wordpress Notifier was doing nothing wrong. It is just that Bad Behavior is very aggressive in blocking web clients. Any web client with “Wordpress” in its user agent name is blocked. I had to change the user agent to “wpnotifier” instead of “Wordpress Notifier”.

A bit thanks goes to [Mathew](http://mathewwithonet.com/) for identifying the problem and helping me debug it.

Wordpress Notifier for Mac Released!

Paul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:28:51 +0000

Well, yes, it had been released before in anticipation of the original release date, but today is the day I am celebrating shipping it. [Wordpress 2.7](http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/) is out and for all those who do not use the development versions (99.999% of you), [Wordpress Notifier](http://www.wpnotifier.com/) now works!

Please leave me any feedback.

I have already had an offer to translate it into French. If anyone want to translate it into another language please contact me.

Wordpress Quick Reply Template Plugin

Paul — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:13:24 +0000

The quick reply feature introduced in Wordpress 2.7 is great but it lacks the ability to set the default test of a reply.

This plugin allows you to automatically set the text of a comment reply. For example if your reply template is:

%FIRST_NAME%,

and the comment authors name is:

Paul William

Then the default text in a reply would be:

Paul,

It is that simple.

### Screenshots

Click to expand.

### Download

Download from the [Wordpress Plugin Directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-reply-template/).

Source repository at [GitHub](http://github.com/paulwilliam/wordpress-quick-reply-template-plugin/tree/master).

Wordpress GitHub Gist Shortcode Plugin

Paul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:35:16 +0000

This simple Wordpress plugin allows you to embed a [GitHub Gist](http://gist.github.com/) by inserting a shortcode into your post or page instead of entering HTML.

It is very simple to use. After activating the plugin you can embed a Gist, for example Gist 30957, into you page or post by entering the following text:

will be replaced with an embedded Gist:

Simple!

One problem with gists is that a search engine spiders (and users with javascript disabled) will not see your code in a blog entry. This plugin allows you to get around this by including text, such as content of the gist inside the shortcode. The text is wrapped inside these tags:

### Download

[Wordpress Plugin Directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/github-gist-shortcode/).

[GitHub source repository](http://github.com/paulwilliam/wordpress-github-gist-shortcode-plugin/tree/master).

**Changelog**

*0.2 Added ability to include text inside gist shortcode.*

*0.1 Initial Release*

### Credits

The geniuses at [GitHub](https://github.com/)

Wordpress 2.7 delayed till early December

Paul — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:00:26 +0000

It looks like WP 2.7 has been delayed again until early December. Still due to IE6 issues.

alicam

Looks like I launched Wordpress Notifier early :( I expected it to be announced at Wordcamp Australia today.

Need help porting Wordpress Notifier to PPC

Paul — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:10:06 +0000

Update: I have got it running on PPC and Tiger (OS X 10.4). I would still appreciate help testing Wordpress Notifier on PPC 10.5.

Hi, I need someone running Leopard on a PPC machine to help me make Wordpress Notifier work on the PPC platform.

Any offer to help would be welcome, a mac developer’s help would be even better,

Thanks.

I wish it was that easy ;)

Wordpress Notifier Released

Paul — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:19:52 +0000

I have finally released my latest software project. Wordpress Notifier alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on a Wordpress blog. It uses the new Wordpress 2.7 comment API.

This blog will be used to discuss the application and I will be posting any news relating to it here.

More on the freeware application at WordpressNotifier.com