Published May 29th, 2005
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One of the reasons that I haven’t been too motivated to work on WP-CC much, despite being very excited about its potential, is the lack of competition. WP-ContactForm, Ryan Duff’s plugin which I collaborate on, has no such issues–in March came a fork called PXS Mail Form, which introduced more input validation, and some days ago intouch was released, which is another fork but with a decent amount of modifications done on top of WPCF (custom fields and ajax).
We borrowed the idea of highlighting invalid fields with red borders from PXS Mail, and have had custom fields and ajax planned for a while. We’re also focused implementing an extensibility framework, which will be quite sweet. Look out for a smokin’ hot WPCF release next week.
Published May 27th, 2005
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Hot activism gossip! Political wonks take note! FreeCulture.org, the ‘international student movement for free culture’ has just incorporated. (“That’s FreeCulture.org, Inc. to you!”)
Gavin Baker, one of the three directors on the new board, is a good writer; go check out his summation of the issues now facing them in the linked post. My input on the matter is mostly summed by “w00t!”
Published May 26th, 2005
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There is usually some software that I continuously want but can’t feel interested in writing myself. In terms of WordPress plugins, I’ve wished for a while to come across a good stats plugin and one for grabbing Technorati inbound links.
A certain ‘nik’ had started hanging in #wordpress recently, and having decided to make plugins for WP a couple days ago, came up with these: Kramer and Taggart. Kramer inserts Technorati inbound links into the comments for each post, while Taggart is Yet Another WordPress Tags Plugin.
I’m running Kramer at this point, and it’s pretty slick—it adds inbound links to the comments table like Matt recommended a few moons ago. Nik’s already mulling about what to do with inbound links to the site in general which are not associated with a particular entry, and non-Technorati referrers. Both are features I’d really like. Yay for Kramer, and kudos to Nik Cubrilovic.
