Geek On The Mountain

Welcome to June. I still have nothing to show for my dream of a WordPress Plugin. It has become vaporware. I’ve been far too busy and far too lazy to do much as of late. I could come up all kinds of excuses though.

My plan, and I really want to follow through with this, is to be back at it by the end of the month. I really DO have a lot of stuff going on, but if I can manage to manage my time well, then I’ll sure end up with enough time to put in some effort here. It would be great to have several hours per day free, but at the very least I should be able to do an hour or so if I’m still heavily involved in other things.

I did at least fix the feed so it works again.

This is my plan…hold me to it, please

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I have updated Live Post Preview (WP plugin that shows a preview of your post as you type it). I made three changes:

1. The most important change is that now, all you have to do is install the plugin and it will work. There is no longer any need to add a function call to any files anywhere. Due to an unfortunate misunderstand on my part of exactly how the API hooks work, it didn’t work before. But now that I know what the hell I’m doing and managed to get around to making the changes, it works just fine.
2. The “Preview:” section now displays when the page loads. Previously, it would only show up once you started typing (once there was something to actually preview).
3. The preview section now has the box (well, the three-sided box, that is) around it like everything else does on the page. It now done look prettier!

All the changes are pretty minor really, but it will just make it easier to install and upgrade wordpress (the way it was before, you had to edit files that will get overwritten when you upgrade WP).

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I should be able to make some good progress this weekend. I have plenty of time to do so. I’d love to be able to have a beta out by the end of the weekend (my weekend goes rather long, so I actually mean the middle of next week, mind you… )

Previously, I was creating a RSS feed by hand for the project. What I’ve done now instead is to create a category on my blog in which to post everything. WP is nice enough to create a feed for the category, which will then serve as a project feed. I only had a couple of items in the feed previously, so it was simple to go back and create posts for those. The old feed url redirects to the new one.

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Coding has begun on the backend. When will anything recognizable be finished? I have no idea. Hopefully this weekend I’ll come up with some time to get going on it

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I came up with a new idea for another plugin to work on. I’ve decided to create a list manager that will be fully usable from within the WP admin interface. I want it to be easy to use, so I don’t want the user to have to edit any files at all beyond just placing a function call in their sidebar or wherever they’d like it to show up. At the same time, it’s going to be flexible so that the user completely decides how it will display the list and it will be usable for multiple “types” of lists.

My thinking behind it is that I can use it to maintain lists like “recently watched movies” and that sort of thing. It will also be capable of doing todo lists and anything else you can think of.

LisTorium currently is some ideas jotted down in a notebook and some more ideas floating around in my head.

The project’s official page contains basically this same info for now and will be updated when I have a beta ready. There is also an RSS feed if you’re interested. You can always leave a comment or send me an email (see the sidebar) if you’d like to updated on the project’s progress as well. The latter two options I will update whenever I have some noticeable amount of work done, even before the beta.
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