Archive for January, 2013

New Year’s Project

Friday, January 4th, 2013

I am currently working on a new version of Permalink Finder to be released soon. The new version of Stop Spammers will be released at the same time. I have 3 or 4 old plugins that are over two years old and no long show up in the WordPress.org repository, so they need to be refreshed, updated and re-released. The version of No Right Click Images has an option to replace the default image that I am testing and I will release that soon.

The new plugin that I am working on is a Social Post/Page ranking plugin similar to Reddit, Ycombinator, Digg or Delicious. It will provide a gravity algorithm to list pages/posts in order of interest. I will provide shortcodes to place the listing on a page with options, including New, Controversial, etc. with options to show pages, posts, or custom post types. I expect to be testing a version of it here in a week or so, and placing it on my other sites after that for more intensive testing.

The issue with the new plugin is security so I am making it optionally require email and filtering through Akismet and my Stop Spammer plugin if available. This will be the first time that I have made a connection between two of my plugins. I have to figure a way to check that they don’t step on each other. I might have to include WordPress style actions and filters in Stop Spammers so that I can make them work without a crash.