Turned out I was using the wrong activation method for the plugin, I fixed it and released a new version, hope this one works better for everyone.

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I will probably convert subscribers to NotifyMe2 once it has reached a decent stage but I can’t promise anything..

Following are my ideas about the project, what exactly I want to achieve by making yet another mailing list plugin for Wordpress.. and while I’m at that subject I would like to point out that I was originally not planning to develop NotifyMe any further, since there are loads of alternatives.. but I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from people who loved the simplicity of the plugin and would prefer not to reach out to alternatives.

Therefore, my goals on this project are;

• To yet again, create a very simplistic (yet advanced, but not bloated) mailing list plugin
• To have it integrate with Wordpress as best I can
  • By this I mean I want it to match the wordpress style in every aspect.
  • I have removed any Naatan.com abbreviations, this would break the integration from my point of view.
• Initially I want to release a basic plugin that does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more, from there I will continue to extend it, though as I said, I do not want it to become bloated.
• To develop a better way to notify users of new blog items, a way that would not break other plugin hooks and filters.
  • Cron job support for these type of notifications

Those are basically the goals I have at the moment, once I’ve reached them I will continue to add functionality to the plugin, I currently have some ideas about adding category/tag specific notifications for mailing lists, but I consider this an extra functionality which will not be required in the initial release.

Well that’s about it, I hope the people that have been e-mailing me asking for a new version have not given up hoping, if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be doing this

The only problem with any (or most) new Linux installations is that the fonts are blurry and spacing is just off.. So I did some googling and found this thread on the Ubuntu forums, if you follow the 2 simple steps given you’re fonts will look a lot better..

Create a file called .fonts.conf in your home directory (vim ~/.fonts.conf) and paste in the following contents

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

After that relog.

Apperantly the reason this isn’t done by default is because Apple has some patents on the techniques used to make this happen.. don’t you just hate patents..

Note that I’ve only tried it on Linux Mint 6 (based on Ubuntu 8.10), but I reckon it should work for most distro’s.. gonna try it tomorrow on Centos 4.7 at work.

So I used htaccess to have mod_rewrite redirect the main domain to the “domains” folder… which is the same folder all my other domains use, this way I can have things the way I like.

Here’s the code that you put right inside your public_html folder;

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} naatan.com

ReWriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} !domains/

ReWriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} !subdomains/

ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ domains/naatan.com/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

Of course you’re gonna want to replace naatan.com with your domain..

Note that I am placing an ignore on the domains and subdomains folder, seeing as it would keep redirecting indefinitely if I didn’t put that on the domains folder, and I want to have my subdomains in their own folder as well.

Now you can still use htaccess in the main domains folder, but as it’s home directory  is different from the directory the files are actually in (thanks to mod_rewrite) you need to base the path on the homedirectory.. so my .htaccess file for my default domain looks like this;

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /domains/naatan.com/index.php [L]

</IfModule>

And voila, I got all my domains in one folder..

I am still hoping for cPanel to allow you to customize this some day.. but it doesn’t seem like this limitation bothers the developers behind cPanel much.

On a small side note, I’ve had a bit of trouble with wordpress admin redirecting after a login using the method described above.. but by simply logging in and then manually entering the wp-admin url it all works fine. Even so, if anyone knows a better way of going about this, I’d love to hear it.

Anyway, the plugin is great, it basically just incorporates the Syntaxhighlighter script by Alex Gorbatchev into Wordpress. There’s just one problem though, it does not support indentation, as the TinyMCE configuration in Wordpress doesn’t convert spaces to &nbsp;’s. Also tags like <?php were in my case converted to &lt;?php, which is quite annoying.

Long story short, I’ve done some playing around with the code and it turns out that just by removing the TinyMCE encoding / decoding functions and adding a small function to convert spaces to &nbsp;’s this plugin works great!

<?php
    echo 'Proof! Look.. I can use &nbsp; as plain text as well.. ';
?>

Attached to this post is the modified syntaxhighlighter.php file, just install the SyntaxHighlighter plugin and replace the syntaxhighlighter.php with the one posted underneath.

Download: syntaxhighlighter.php (726) - 3.88 KB

I’d like to give some quick kudo’s to Steve Smith from The Wordpress Magazine for sharing his SyntaxHighlighter modifications with me, without them it would have taken me much longer to figure this one out.

And that’s about it.. it’s another no-fuzz plugin.. does what it needs to do and nothing more.

On another subject there is a new update for Twitter Status that fixed incompatibility with themes that don’t have jquery enabled by default.
Make sure you read the readme.txt as installation instructions have slightly changed.

• Description
• Features
• Screenshots
• Installation
• Usage
• Download
• Changelog
• Support

Description

Adds the ability to move comments between posts / pages to the comment edit page.

Simple no-fuzz plugin.. no extra pages / configuration screen, just an option added to your comment edit screen.

Features

• Move comments individually between posts / pages
  Or really, to anything in the Posts table.. just enter the ID..

Screenshots

Installation

Just unzip into the plugins folder and activate.

Usage

Just edit a comment and change it’s post / page id.

Download

• Comment Move v1.0 (730)

Changelog

• Version 1.0 – November 18, 2008
  • Initial Release

Support

For bugs, general support and feature requests please refer to the bug tracker.

You can get the latest version from the plugin page or Wordpress.org..

Hope this version works properly for everyone.

I am still working on some more plugins, this one I created out of necessity, I wanted to have my plugin pages skip the frontpage and stick to their relative category.
So why not use a page? Well the links in my navigation bar are generated by the categories I post in.. and pages don’t have categories.. so there.

Anyway, what this plugin does:

Gives you the ability to have posts skip the frontpage and to stick a post to the top of all it’s relative categories.

Hopefully some more people can find a good use for this