Today I installed the latest wordpress 2.1 and everything is cool as usual. There are so many new features and it very fats. I really like the new editor with both tinymce and normal one. The best part is autosave which is rocking.

I tested both of my plugins organizer and wp-pda and both works without any isses as far as I know.

I wanted to change my blog permalink without affecting and with proper 301 redirect. So I wrote a small plugin and that does the job so nicely now. If you like to do it for your blog just download it and modify whatever needed for you.

Rewrite hack plugin I wrote to change my permalink with 301 redirect

Wordpress rock

Wordpress Complete book by Hasin Hayder

Kshipra Singh from Packt Publishing requested me write a review about their new book on wordpress. I got the book from them 2 days back. Being an user of wordpress for more than 3 years now I have never read a book about wordpress so I was excited to read it. The Books covers lot of topics in different perspective for a person to start blogging. For example installation by manually, from cpannel and upgrading etc.

Some of the topics they have covered in this book

• Installation
• Managing post, categories, comments
• How to play with themes and some trips and tricks on css
• Plugin and some sample code how to write a plugin. Not fully documented
• Explains about widgets plugin
• Tips and tricks on using wordpress

My comment it is very useful book for a new user who is very much new to wordpress. They have explained it nicely. It will not help advanced wordpress user that much.

After so much time I really started working on my plugin organizer. This time I am rewriting everything from scratch. I am not sure how much time it will take for me to complete the plugin. I am writing in my free time which I hardly have these days. I am sure I can release by the time wordpress 2.1 hits the road. Some feature I like do in this version.

• It will have almost all the features of previous organizer
• Text editing which is asked by some users
• Multiple file uploads
• Ability to edit title and description in database
• Ability to find orphan files
• Other than this planning to have some fun with ajax wherever possible
• Using smarty to separate php and html logic
• Fully class based since I had some issues with other plugins which caused wordpress to break
• This organizer is based on wordpress 2.1 and will work only on that and does not work on previous versions
• Its need GD by default and I hope this will not be an issue. Almost all server has this
• Cannot think of anything more now

I can see some good changes in wordpress 2.1 and more hooks which maked life more easier. Its much faster and it is very light. Once again its wordpress team and they cannot be bad

After office work me and Saifudeen (saif) went to confirm my bus tickest as my flight to Chennai was bit expensive due to my extra baggage. After booking the ticket we both went for dinner and had ‘Rocket Dosa’

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This picture was taken in Saif house in Trivandrum

More to come ;-). See my next post it is an interesting picture

I am kind of again tired with my current theme. This time I am not going to search for better theme. The theme what I am using now is kind of cool and really nice but I had this for real long time. While modifying the theme for pda I found Wordpress theme is not that tough to code.

Some features for the theme which I am write for my blog

• SEO friendly
• Ajax enabled
• Basic graphics like apache.org. I love the design for so many years the have the same design and it kind of cool.
• A logo if possible.
• More work on the comments like captcha which will help me eat lot of spam. You wont belive how many spam I get everyday. Spam karma and Akismet plugin save me a lot . If these too are de-activated it will be real nightmare for me.
• A gallery module to upload my picture with cool title and description, If possible comments too

Thats all for version 1 I guess and will improve based on my needs.

I was really surprised and happy to see both of my plugin in wordpress podcast under the title Dealing with splogs, posting by e-mail and more. I am really happy to see many people using my plugins for their blogs. Have some news regarding organizer plugin and I will update soon