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This is the first post on the Wordpress 3.0 MU server. http://wordpress.3dn.nl has now become a ‘site’ under the main blog http://3dn.nl. This is possible since 3.0 which now has the multi user functionality built in. First there will be some transitioning stage where plugins I used on the old http://wordpress.3dn.nl will be enabled on [...]
The Expertise plugin is nearing completion now. We still need to give experts a method to sign up as experts for the 3DN expertise areas (or to sign out should they no longer want to act as expert). We will be using some Wordpress specific Ajax constructs for this.
Disqus comments are no different from regular Wordpress comments. This means that checking the comments on an expertise page will be no different for Disqus comments as it is for standard Wordpress comments. Can we still find something special to do with Disqus comments?
The expertise plugin I’m writing and have been publishing about needs a selector in the admin screen to allow sending mail through SMTP or through sendmail. This article will include some javascript to do just that.
Earlier I wrote a few articles on creating the expertise plugin and how to add shortcodes to it. Today I want to add scheduled events to the plugin. When somebody posts a question to the expertise page, we could probably write a trigger that checks immediately who’s the expert for the section and send a notice in an email. However, I think it’s also nice to illustrate making a timed even that will check all expertise pages at once for new messages and send out all notifications right away.
Wordpress has a mechanism for adding ‘shortcodes’ authors can use in their articles through a plugin. In an earlier article I described how to get started with writing your own Wordpress plugins. In this article I’ll show how to add a handy shortcode to the plugin that generates code in the expert pages which allows people to register as experts in a certain area of expertise.
I’ve been thinking about a way to get people to add links to our blog on their site. A friendly way to do this is by adding an ‘expertise’ section to the site where people can go after they sign up. Here people can ask questions which will be emailed to the section maintainer(s) so they can answer any questions involving their expertise as timely as possible.
A while ago I decided to use the ‘smells like facebook’ theme. The navigation is familiar to some 350 million people and in general I think the facebook layout isn’t bad.
For a while I’ve been experimenting with the Facebook Connect plugin for wordpress. While it seems like a very nice plugin I’ve run into many problems with it. I would like your opinion!
I’ve been using a lot of math functions and graphviz diagrams on the 3DN blog lately. Since the lunated theme I used before uses a dark background, I had to tweak both the graphviz plugin and the latex plugin to generate white on transparent background. This does not work out so well when printing the article.
