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Addictions

Posted: June 14, 2005 @ 09:33 PM EST | Filed Under: WordPress, PHP, Site News and Updates

I’d like to point your attention to the sidebar for a moment, and at this time, you should be seeing a “My Addictions” section (psst… people of the future… if you don’t see it, don’t worry about it… Joey-of-the-Future may take it down or change the title for some unknown reason to Joey-of-the-Present). It’s a nice little addition there, I think… let’s you know what I’m doing, what I like, and what not, inspired by the sidebars of Jason Santa Maria and Jon Hicks. There’s more to this, though.

Being the freeloader I am, I wanted something like this and I wanted something pre-made. However, I could find nothing like it for WordPress (automated at least, there’s always the… hand-coded way *shudders* ). I was bummed about this, but this is my last day of school for 2 weeks until summer school, and I wasn’t about to let my want go to waste. Oh, no, quite the contrary. I decided to make the plugin myself. Yes… Yes, me… the one with little to no PHP experience, but the will to learn. So, I put my nose to the grindstone, and got to it, and with the help of cross-checking with the source of Eric Anderson’s wonderful WPDI.

So… I present to you the output of “Addictions,” the plugin. For now, since it’s in an extreme alpha stage and this is my first foray into both PHP and Wordpress plugins, I won’t be releasing it, but I will continue testing, and adding features, and will have a doc page up very soon. So, expect a beta very soon, and that page.

Update

The official documentation and info. page for Addictions has been created, along with a Plugins page as a placeholder for a listing of created-by-me plugins ;P .