Look up - directly above this text. See it? That’s one of mu’s newest features. I decided that as a gesture of convenience, mu will now create a short link anytime you publish a post. Since it usually already does it anyway, I decided to make it automatic and give you the chance to display [...]

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I was informed of a small flaw in the code that controls the URLs for your microblogging account settings pages (thanks Katie). It was a pretty small fix, and it’s been sent off to the SVN repo so you should be prompted to update soon.
At some point I also moved the options page from the [...]

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I put mu up on the WordPress plugins site yesterday and it looks like everything’s working now. This post will serve as the central point of contact for all things mu in beta stage. If you’ve got any questions, comments, suggestions, or need help, this is the place to post it. For a description of [...]

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I’ve applied to have mu hosted on the official WordPress plugins directory, and was approved this morning. In the next few days I’ll be working on getting everything uploaded to that site, and hopefully mu will be more visible on the official plugin page. Stay tuned, mu watchers, we’re nearing the initial release date. No [...]

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I’ve finally reached a point where I’m comfortable dropping the source code for mu. mu’s project home will be hosted on Google Code because it’s much easier than setting up a repo and Trac. Everything you need to know will be over there, and I’ll update the blog accordingly when something noteworthy comes [...]

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I may have finally figured out how to handle future posts and call a plugin when the post goes live. I was previously using the ‘publish_post’ action hook, but that doesn’t work for future posts. I figured that there are a lot of bloggers who publish their posts in the future, so this [...]

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mu is clipping right along now, and I’m trying to trim it down so I’m not relying on third party APIs. The reason I’m doing this is so I can avoid problems that I had with Plurk Updater. The only requirements mu will have are the cURL and XML-RPC packages for PHP. [...]

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I’ve been working on mu for the past few days and have it running pretty well. It’s been pushing out updates to my social networks on each post I’ve made for the past 3 or 4 days, so I’m convinced that part of it works. Here’s a set of features that mu will [...]

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I recently created a plugin to send an update to your Plurk account (Plurk Updater). It was at that point that I decided that I really needed a plugin that allowed me to specify on a post-by-post basis if I actually wanted to send the update to either Plurk or Twitter. Thus, mu [...]

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