I’ve been slacking a bit on maintaining this blog. Before I recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.2.1, my version was 2.0.4 that was released a year ago. Not even hacking this blog on my birthday would force me upgrade! I dunno what kind of bug bit me, but I suddenly had the urge to upgrade everything.

After successfully upgrading Wordpress, I went through my plugins list. It was only then I realized that I had five active plugins that I wasn’t even using and one plugin that’s been waiting for an upgrade for two years! If you’re wondering which plugins I use, here they are:
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Just want to announce that I’ve recently updated my Wordpress Guestbook Generator plugin. It’s now compatible with the newest 2.1 version of Wordpress.

Just a very straightforward and unobtrusive social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress that allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to select bookmarking services. Includes StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Spurl, Simpy, Furl, Dzone, Reddit, Yahoo! and Newsvine. Uses text links instead of icons as seen on this blog.

Plugin Name: Name Dropper
Description: Plugin that allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to select bookmarking services.
Version: 0.2
Author: Andrew dela Serna

Installation:
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Here’s a treat for StumbleUpon.com members! The Stumble Upon It! Wordpress plugin allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to StumbleUpon.com’s bookmarking service. I’d like to thank StumbleUpon founder Geoff Smith, who was cool enough to work on the interface to make this possible!

Plugin Name: StumbleUpon It!
Description: Easy plugin that allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to StumbleUpon.com.
Version: 0.1
Author: Andrew dela Serna

Installation:
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Here’s a little preview of a Wordpress theme called “Future Cargo” that I’ll be releasing very soon:

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I created a couple of posts that demonstrated how to make a Wordpress Guestbook. Some of you might have found it a bit daunting, so here’s a plugin that will do everything for you!

Plugin Name: Guestbook Generator
Description: Generates a guestbook for Wordpress blogs. Once activated, click on Options > Guestbook Generator.
Version: 0.8
Author: Andrew dela Serna
Notice: Compatible only with Wordpress 2.1. Support for older versions will continue but updates/upgrades will be focused on the newest versions of Wordpress. Scroll down to download Version 0.7 which is designed for Wordress 2.0.X.

Features:

1. No files to edit. Just upload the plugin, activate it then run the generator.
2. Guestbook template seamlessly integrates with your current theme.
3. When changing themes, simply run the generator to create the necessary files.
4. Like a true-blue guestbook, entries are arranged from newest to oldest.
5. Remember the time when guestbooks were the “in” thing? Hopefully this plugin will bring back the ol’ days. Hehe.

Installation:
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With Windows Live Writer recently recently, it’s only natural that I should try it on my blog.  Does it work?  If you see this, most probably.

Here’s another one for the I [heart] Wordpress logo contest.

Scroll down on the sidebar to see a reduced version implementation.

Feel free to insert this logo in your blog by using the following code:


<img src="http://static.flickr.com/58/202670272_0613a2e828_m.jpg" title="I [heart] Wordpress" alt="I [heart] Wordpress">


Related Link: heart rate monitors

The much-awaited Wordpress 2.0.4 is out. More than 50 bugs found in 2.0.3 smoked and some security fixes.

Upgrading my blogs went smooth as expected.

Official release notes and download page.

Contests, boy do I love ‘em.

There’s a logo competition going on at the Wordpress Support Forums for the phrase “I [heart] Wordpress”. Here’s my first entry:

Watchathink?

For anyone using Randy Peterman’s StatTraq, there’s a small bug in one of the files that might cause an error message to appear at the footer of your Wordpress blog.

Open up stattraq.php in a text editor and scroll down to line 90 (approximately).

Change:

else if($strpos($ua, 'MSIE 2') !== false)

to

else if(strpos($ua, 'MSIE 2') !== false)

Save the file and upload to your server.

I was doing my homework on upgrading my plugins a while ago and discovered an awesome Wordpress plugin called “Edit N Place” by Headzoo’s Sean Hickey. It kinda speaks for itself. Made possible with AJAX, what it does is it allows you to edit your articles, their categories and tags right from your blog’s front page! What a time saver! One of the best Wordpress plugins ever created. Add that to my list of plugins I can’t do without.

Here’s a screenshot of the plugin at work:
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Easier than I thought, whew. I just upgraded my Wordpress software from version 1.5 to 2.0.3. Even though I’ve read a lot of bad things about it, it’s still way better! The best thing is that all my plugins are compatible. But I think I have to upgrade them to their newest versions.

Some plugins I cannot do without:

• Photopress
• Related Posts
• Bunny’s Technorati Tags

If you know of other essential plugins I should include, leave me a note!

A couple of my cousins run a fashion blog at Shopchicks.com and have been promoting some of their posts via Stylehive.com, a Digg-style bookmarking service directed at fashion and trendy items found on the Internet.

To make their lives easier, and perhaps for other fashionista bloggers out there, I created a new Wordpress plugin that adds a Stylehive bookmarklet below each post as well as your Stylehive badge.

Some details on the plugin:

Plugin Name: Stylehive It
Description: Easy plugin that allows your visitors to bookmark your fashion-related posts to their Stylehive.com account. Also adds your Stylehive badge.
Version: 0.1
Author: Andrew dela Serna
Demo: Shopchicks.com

Click here to download the plugin.

Installation:
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Honestly, I didn’t think there would be another after the other one where a Filipino web designer Gail dela Cruz made quite an impression. I didn’t know either until now that some of the winners have yet to receive their prizes. No, as much as I’d want to, I won’t dive into that arena (cough).

The Undersigned decided it was high time for a well-organized, well-sponsored Wordpress Theme Competition and that is why he announced that he is actually planning one. After testing the dark and dreary waters of Wordpress plugins, I guess it’s time I tried delving into Wordpress Themes. I’m definitely in. I’m so ready to hack Wordpress like a madman with a machete. Hopefully Gail will be joining again and so will other Pinoys.