Message to WordPress Plugin Developers: Use the WordPress Plugin Repository!

BullShit, Idiots, Plugins, Rant, Wordpress

This message is for all of the WordPress plugin developers out there.
Use the WordPress plugin repository dammit!
Reasons to use the WordPress plugin repository:

It is free
It gives your plugin a lot of exposure
It isn’t dependent on your crappy $5.95/month hosting
It provides real download links that can be used with wget and not those annoying [...]

AJAX-ify the FAQ-Tastic WordPress Plugin

HowTo, Plugins, Wordpress

If you came here looking for the plugin click here.
Update: This plugin has been tested with the new FAQ-Tastic Lite plugin and works as expected.
FAQ-Tastic is a wonderful WordPress plugin for maintaining a FAQ on your website. My company recently made a decision for one of its products to run both the blog and [...]

Lightview JS WordPress Plugin

Plugins, Wordpress

Update: I will no longer be updating the lightview-js WordPress plugin with new versions of Lightview from Nick Stakenburg as the author has changed the licensing requiring users to purchase Lightview. As I DO NOT purchase software and frown upon authors who distribute their software freely and then decide to require licensing fees; [...]

Shadowbox JS Wordpress Plugin

Plugins, Wordpress

A media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures, movies, websites, inline content and more in all major browsers without navigating away from the linking page.
This plugin uses Shadowbox.js written my Michael J. I. Jackson.
Javascript libraries supported are: YUI, Prototype + Scriptaculous, jQuery, Ext, Dojo and MooTools. [...]

Display Most Recent Wordpress Posts On Another Site

HowTo, PHP, Wordpress

I was recently had the job of displaying the most recent Wordpress posts on a sites main page. The easiest way I could think of doing this is to use the RSS feed.
I’ll give two sample php functions that will do this as one requires some pear packages and the other doesn’t.
Option 1
This option [...]