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Comment Bankrupcy

Dan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:51:55 +0000

I’ve got to declare comment bankrupcy. I am going to do my best to answer any comment posted in the last two months, but I’ve got a bunch of older ones that I never got around to responding to, so I’m going to approve the remaining ones in my queue but I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to answering the old ones. If you still have a question, leave a new comment.

Here are some things you can do to help me answer your questions quickly:

Double-check your email address. Too many people misspell their own email address and I will never really be able to get back in touch with them.
Don’t comment on an old version’s post. Many people seem to just come in and comment on the first post Google sent them to. Find the appropriate post for the latest version of the plugin. If you’re not using the latest version of the plugin, you need to upgrade anyway.
Provide a link to an example of the problem you’re having.

Sorry for not getting back to so many comments. I’ll do my best to answer them in a timely fashion in the future.

How to translate Gigs Calendar

Dan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:36:46 +0000

There’s a new tutorial up at my development site about translating Gigs Calendar (or other WordPress plugins). If you’ve been wanting to translate Gigs Calendar and I hadn’t gotten back to you, check it out.

Translating Plugins

Google problems sorted out

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:29:51 +0000

Somehow, the WordPress option to hide this blog from search engines was checked. I don’t know why I would have checked that, but I can unhappily report that it does work very well to keep you out of Google. I should be showing up soon, hopefully with decent PageRank because of all of the awesome links I’ve gotten from you guys! Thanks!

I should have complained sooner

Dan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:12:41 +0000

It figures that my files come back immediately after I posted about my problems. Well, that makes fixing this site a lot easier. Once I get a few more things done, I’ll probably work on some more bug fixes. It might be some time next week before I get a release out as I haven’t returned from London yet and the jet lag will probably knock me out for a few days.

A few notes

Dan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:15:24 +0000

Some observant individuals may have spotted the “Dev Feed” on the sidebar. If you click on the link, you’ll end up on a little site that has more information than you probably ever want. In fact, it automatically posts all of my Subversion commit messages, so you’ll know when I’m making changes and what I’m doing. I’ll also be posting little status updates as well.

Also, if you’re using the plugins, or you’ve installed them for someone else and you’ve got a blog of your own, I’d appreciate it if you could write a short post mentioning the plugins and linking back here. This site still hasn’t shown up in the Google Index (though I think I’m almost out of the “sandbox”). Any links from other blogs could certainly help tip the scales in my favor and help other people find the plugins.

Featured Plugin: Easy Gravatars

Dan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:29:02 +0000

I’ve been wanting to mention some WordPress plugins by other people that might not be directly related to bands, but you might find fun or useful anyway.

If you aren’t aware, the company that owns WordPress, Automattic, recently acquired Gravatar. Gravatar is a pretty cool site that lets someone upload an avatar image to represent themselves across the web. I’ve just enabled them on the comments of this blog using Easy Gravatars by Dougal Campbell. You’ll see my photo appearing to my comments now. If you have a Gravatar, you’ll get to see yours show up on my site too (sorry, only G-Rated avatars).