DSD

[Update 7/7/09: WP-Typogrify has now merged with WP-Hyphenate, and is com­pat­i­ble with cap­tions out of the box.]

Hamish Macpher­son’s WP-Typogrify is one of my favorite Word­Press plu­g­ins. I started using it espe­cially for the Smar­ty­Pants func­tion­al­ity, which fixes “dumb quotes” and poor man’s apos­tro­phes, among other things.

How­ever, I was dis­ap­pointed to find that this func­tion­al­ity breaks Word­Press cap­tions (intro­duced in WP 2.6), which I’d rather not live with­out. Devel­op­ment on WP-Typogrify seems to have slowed — there hasn’t been a new ver­sion in a while, so I’ve taken the lib­erty of hack­ing ver­sion 1.6 to fix this incom­pat­i­bil­ity, at least so I can use Smar­ty­Pants until an offi­cial fix comes out. The adjust­ments I made are sim­ple, and I have no idea whether they’re max­i­mally robust. But feel free to

and use at your own risk. Con­tinue reading…

Intro­duc­ing Stats­Feed, a Word­Press plu­gin that pro­vides an RSS feed of your blog stats, so you don’t have to keep log­ging in and check­ing your Dash­board (which, before writ­ing this plu­gin, I did obsessively).

Down­load the Lat­est Version

Instal­la­tion:

• Down­load statsfeed.zip, and either use WordPress’s Add New Plu­gin browser, or unzip statsfeed.zip and upload the stats­feed folder to your plu­g­ins direc­tory /wp-content/plugins/
• Make sure you have the WordPress.com Stats plu­gin already installed.
• Acti­vate Stats­Feed. Con­fig­u­ra­tion is not nec­es­sary, but you may choose an update sched­ule (other than every 20 min­utes, the default) in Set­tings, under StatsFeed.
• Sub­scribe to your Stats­Feed at

  <your blog url>/wp-content/plugins/statsfeed/index.xml

Con­tinue reading…