Popularitycontest
No Mr Bond, I Expect You To wp_die()!
After my argument with Alex King the other day where he defended his use of a "wp_die()" call from his Wordpress plugin as being a completely appropriate thing for a plugin author to do, I got curious. I have 27 plugins on this blog, 12 active and 15 inactive. I deleted the two I had...
read articlePopularity Contest: Wordpress Plugin Hall of Shame
Yesterday I had my first ever bad experience with a Wordpress plugin auto-upgrade and it was really really bad. I did the auto-upgrade of the Popularity Contest plugin, first upgrade in a very long time. These upgrades have become so routine that I don't much think twice about executing them any...
read articlePopularity Contest It Is
I added in the sidebar the results of the Popularity Contest Wordpress plugin. If you look at a category, month or year view you'll see the most popular posts that fit those criteria. Otherwise, you'll see the most popular of all time. All time I tell you!! Actually, there is a three-way split in...
read articleWordpress Plugins for XMas
My buddy Jason is going Wordpress plugin crazy. To be honest, I hadn't heard of most of these but I'm willing to try most things. I've installed the Popularity Contest and Related Posts, just to see how they work. The popularity numbers are kind of bogus right now, since they only have a few hours...
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