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Busy Times Ahead

Matt — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:18:30 +0000

For those of you who follow me on twitter you likely already know that I am about to move half way across the country to take a new job. A few weeks ago I accepted a job with Rackspace and will be moving from Boonsboro, MD, population 3,399, to San Antonio, TX, population 1,351,305. I’m leaving for Texas on December 28 and have an expected move in date of December 31. Considering the time of year and the incredibly fast paced relocation I will be considerably less involved with WordPress and freenode until things start to settle down.

If you are in need of something just be patient, I’ll try to get to everything by sometime in mid March. I have some exciting updates to a few WordPress plugins that I hope to be able to get out in a reasonable amount time, so keep an eye out.

Finalizing Plugin Handoffs

Matt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:15:02 +0000

A month or so ago I began giving away plugins to other authors. I just wanted to take a moment to announce which of the remaining pluigns are going where.

Two plugins will be transferring to Michael Torbert:

Another plugin will be going Andy Stratton:

Page Restrict

As of now I am no longer supporting these plugins and requests for support should go to their new authors.

Thank you very much Andy and Michael for taking over development and supporting the community.

I am still finalizing details on the Ajaxify FAQ-Tastic plugin with another author. There should be an announcement for this plugin and author soon.

Write Good Plug-ins and Get Involved in WordPress Development

Matt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:52:30 +0000

This is cross posted from the WordCamp NYC site. This post will show up there at some point today.

Howdy, I’m Matt Martz. The majority of you probably know me as ’sivel’ and I will be doing two separate talks at WordCamp NYC on Saturday, one in the Advanced Plug-in Dev Track and one in Beginners Plug-in Dev Track. The two topics I will be covering are Intermediate Plug-in Development Techniques and Writing Your First Core Patch. I will also be spending as much time as I can in the ‘Hacker Room’ helping people test and write patches for the upcoming WordPress 2.9. If time permits I’ll try do spend some time at the Genius Bar as well.

Giveaways

In both of my sessions I will be doing Twitter based giveaways. I will be giving away 5 items to randomly picked people who attend my sessions. If you want to find out what I am giving away you will have to come my sessions. Winners will be picked automatically at the end of each session using a WordPress plug-in I wrote specially for the occasion.

Intermediate Plug-in Development Techniques

We all strive to write good plug-ins. Plug-ins that not only function well, but plug-ins that have sexy code and use the WordPress APIs whenever possible for tight integration into core. I’ll go over some of the techniques which I believe will help take your plug-ins to that next level. Techniques will include:

Splitting Plug-ins into Multiple Files
Tips on When to Load
Using Classes
Localization
Ajax
If time permits I will try to touch base on a few other items

Writing Your First Core Patch

There are a lot of people out there that I see every day saying they found a bug or want a feature, but in the end never do anything about it. I’ll go over testing to verify the bug, getting assistance from the community, using the WordPress provided resources, explaining Trac and ticket fields and if time permits giving a few demos for actually creating that patch.

Shadowbox JS WordPress Plug-In Passes 100,000 Downloads

Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:43:26 +0000

At 21:30UTC on November 5, 2009 my Shadowbox JS WordPress plug-in passed 100,000 downloads. Thank you to everyone who has downloaded and used this great plugi-n!

Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin Updated to Version 3.0.0.2

Matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:18:18 +0000

Another day and another update. The Shadowbox JS WordPress plugin has been updated to version 3.0.0.2. There are several new features such as generic image sizes and the option to not load sizzle.js. See the change log for a full list of changes.

Still Looking for WordPress Plugin Maintainers

Matt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:50:08 +0000

As I have announced, announced, and announced again; I am ceasing development and support on several plugins. The list of those plugins was in the interview with me on WPTavern, but I wanted to formally outline the plugins that have yet to find a new home, and announce, yes another announcement, that there is one more to be added to that list.

Plugins being sent to the plugin orphanage:

~~Moderate Selected Posts~~ – New Owner to be Announced Soon
~~Display Name Author Permalink~~ – New Owner to be Announced Soon
Ajaxify FAQ-Tastic
Ajax Feed Shortcode – Yet to be released

Everyone please take a look over the above plugins and if you think that you are interested and would like to take over ownership for one or several of these plugins please let me know, either through my contact form or in the comments here.

2 More WordPress Plugins Have New Homes

Matt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:30:45 +0000

Since my announcement on Twitter and my interview on WPTavern, most of you likely know that I decided to cease development and support for several of my plugins. Part of the process of doing so is finding new homes for these plugins so that they can live on. Two more plugins have found their new home with Travis Ballard, who many of you know from Twitter or IRC as ansimation or ansi.

The specific posts for each of these plugins are:

Please head on over and check out Travis’ site and his announcement of taking over the plugins. With that being said, good luck Travis and these plugins are now 100% yours.

Gallery Shortcode Style to Head WordPress Plugin Changing Ownership

Matt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:28:13 +0000

For some time now I have been looking at my plugins and deciding which I wanted to discontinue, which to continue supporting and which I thought someone may be interested in taking over ownership of. One such plugin is the Gallery Shortcode Style to Head plugin which does a look ahead to determine if any posts that will be displayed require the CSS, normally inserted into the body of a post, associated with the [gallery] shortcode. If it determines that such a post will be displayed on the page it prints the CSS to the head of the document, allowing the page to validate as XHTML 1.0.

I had decided to discontinue this plugin, but was recently contacted by Scott Bradford offering a patch to the plugin. After some discussion, I convinced Scott into taking over ownership of the plugin. The new home of the plugin can be found at http://www.scottbradford.us/software/gallery-shortcode-style-to-head/.

I will be redirecting requests to my site for this plugin to Scott’s site. So if you have any questions from this moment forward stop by and talk to Scott.

Ajax Plugin Helper Updated to Version 1.0.5

Matt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:58:33 +0000

Another day and another update. The Ajax Plugin Helper has been updated to version 1.0.5. Fixed in this release is a bug where the edit link for active plugins would always reference the first active plugin in the plugin list. See the change log for a full time line of changes.

Public Post Preview Updated to Version 1.3

Matt — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:10:40 +0000

The Public Post Preview plugin has been updated to version 1.3. New to this version is fixed PHP noticed and uninstall functionality to remove its options from the options table. See the change log for a full time line of changes.