Weirdness

I can only assume this happened when I upgraded to WordPress 1.5, but three of my old entries somehow lost their “publish” status. Instead of going into “draft” status, they simply had no status at all and ended up floating around in the ether. I was able to fix it by manually editing the SQL table. If you’ve upgraded to 1.5 recently, you may want to go back and see if you’re missing a few entries.

WordPress Pages

I’ve converted my “Info”:http://joeyday.com/info page into a WordPress “Page” (I also added a new paragraph about the wiki). Converting it required me to build a new page.php template, but that was relatively easy. I had fun adding custom fields to my pages so that each page I build can have its own title and tagline, following my “-ation” word and definition pattern. I also use a specific body id on each of my pages to facilitate styling the navbar, so that was put into a custom field as well.

With the help of a “slick plugin”:http://ryanduff.net/wp-plugins/wp-contactform, I’ve also created a “Contact”:http://joeyday.com/contact page. I’m really getting tired of spam email, and having a contact page allows me to pull all my email addresses off the site indefinitely.

WordPress Plugin: LDS Linker 1.1

Notice: A newer version of LDS Linker has been released.

Software is bound to have bugs, and my code is no exception (in fact, it’s probably buggier than most). After seeing my plugin in action on a few blogs, I noticed some D&C references weren’t getting linked.

It seems that, by default, WordPress encodes ampersands with the & entity rather than the & entity I was expecting. My Textile 2 plugin uses &, so the problem never came up in my testing.

Without further ado, here’s the new version:

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