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 out. If [...]

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I just found this really handy plugin for WordPress that allows you to move all the administration links to the dark gray bar at the top of your screen. All the top-level menus now become menus that you can select sub-items from. This plugin allows you to save a few clicks here and there, all [...]

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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 became a [...]

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Everyone who runs a website should be keeping track of the number of visitors they have. There are many tools that allows people to do this. WordPress, for example, has a built-in tool that gives you information such as page views, referrers, top posts, clicks (links clicked on your blog), and incoming links. Google Analytics [...]

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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. It’s my hope [...]

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This morning I updated my instance of WordPress. It went pretty smooth, other than the slowness it took me to copy the test instance over to my production instance. The new version of WordPress has some pretty handy features, so head over to the official blog post to read about them. I’ve already gotten one [...]

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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 was born. [...]

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