AutoTag2: smarter tagging for TextMate and WordPress

I was tooling around the Vim website looking at blogging plugins this morning. I noticed that one of them, Vimpress, had linked to an old project of mine that allowed you to work with Ultimate Tag War

WordPress, custom taxonomy, and XML-RPC

This is a quick tip for anyone who may be searching for an answer to the question: "Is there any way to use XMLRPC to send custom post types to WordPress and attach custom taxonomy terms to them?" Yes

Markdown QuickTags 0.7

Markdown QuickTags, my WordPress plugin which adds extensive Markdown features to the HTML editor, has been upped to 0.7. The download link has actually been incrementing for the last week, but this i

Markdown QuickTags: WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers

Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. I

Edit your WordPress QuickTags the right way

You may have cause, at some point, to modify the behavior of the QuickTags in the HTML editor of WordPress (the non-WYSIWYG, non-"Visual" editor). There are a lot of tutorials available for editing th

Four WordPress Plugins I love

I know some people have been moving away from WordPress and toward blogging solutions like Tumblr. The number one reason I hear for making this move is that WordPress gets to complicated once you star

Evernote Site Memory tagger for WordPress

Evernote introduced Site Memory today, providing an easy way to help people clip to Evernote from your site while maintaining control over how your content appears and is attributed. While some instru

Notes on cleaning up the MediaTemple hack (JohnnyA)

NOTE: Be sure to read through the comments, there's a lot of additional and very useful information in there. I'll compile the notes as soon as I'm able and add them to the main post.

First, the hack

Better WordPress security through comment filters

I have an admin username (it's not admin) which I use to manage my WordPress blog, and an editor user with which I write posts and leave comments. Sometimes, though, I get confused, lazy or both, and

Auto-lightboxing image links

I ran into a problem recently. I wanted to have links to images be "lightboxed," but I also wanted to blog in Markdown and not have to write out link tags with "rel" attributes for every image link. T

Adding a TinyMCE button to Wordpress

I was working on a quick website for my wife, and trying to make things as simple as possible for both of us. For me, I just wanted to give her a flexible template that I didn't have to hack much on (