Ok, what I wanted to write was an entry saying, ‘whoa, I figured I’d try my hand at a simplistic WP plugin to learn how to make them, and I got so many links? OMG checkmeout on technorati!’
Instead I’ll act a bit more gracefully and mention that WP-CC 0.1.1 has been released. All WP-CC 0.1 users should upgrade since it fixes a pretty unacceptable bug with the text output of by-sa licenses. (Also fixed a Bridget Jones issue.)
Interestingly, I didn’t catch that bug randomly or from a report, but because I was trying to figure out what sort of testing script makes sense with PHP and saw the incongruous result on a particular parameter. Looks like I might make a complete test suite, one for each function—the code’s simple enough. It’s a very academic approach to bug-squashing, but hey, it’s what I was taught in a previous life as an IB ComSci student and it did just come in useful.
Check out these Japanese, German, Spanish and French entries on WP-CC. (Update: Portuguese! Italian! Arabic!) What they basically mean is that internationalization/localization will need to be fully supported on 0.2. Note that I said supported, not implemented—I couldn’t write German to save my life!
Speaking of 0.2, I have some great ideas that would make it really slick. It’ll be mainly a rewrite—because it’ll use creativecommons.org to pick licenses and get the associated data rather than have that sort of thing hard-coded into the plugin—but it’ll also go a step further, such as an integrated update-checker. Neat, huh? I love the ‘if you can imagine it, you can build it’ aspect of programming.
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looks neat, with it’s own plugin management page, and is, overall, an admirable piece of work for a first-plugin. In fact this is the first time Firas has released any code! He has every right to go WOW! . What is it about writing code for free that attracts people? Lessig wrote about the plugin, but forgot to link to the plugin! To end the post, I would like to thank Firas for documenting some parts of the procedure involved in creating a plugin.
Whoa! Cool! Nice.
BTW, I found you through my Technorati Watchlist, so you’re definitely getting some mojo.
Dave
Whoa! When I saw your comment on my blog and then red this article my face was like this -> :O
I am very pleased to figure on an international blog. And I’d like to support this plugin project translating it in italian, for example.
Bye