About time! I’ve mentioned multiple times that I wanted to turn the logic I use here for user photos on comments into a plugin. I’ve made two hacks for blogger that do this, after all, why not for WordPress?
My recent work with the DiSo project has caused this interest I had to come back, in the form of two plugins.
This plugin looks at the comment author’s URL and tries to find a suitable image. This is primarily done by looking for an hCard, but it will also use other images if no hCard I found.
This plugin is what is now powering comment avatars on this blog. It detects if you have the gravatars plugin, the avatars from URL plugin, or the favatars plugin installed and tries to use the avatar those plugins would normally give (in the listed priority order) — thus allowing more avatars to display than with any one of these plugins.
It also detects if there is photo data in the user’s profile (such as data imported by my semi-released hCard Import plugin) and overrides any other plugins with that.
I have released another now plugin for WordPress! This one lets you easily generate a Focebook-like “mini-feed” of your doings online to embed on a WordPress page (like it is on my home page).
I have updated my XRDS plugin for WordPress to allow for deleting XRDS services, and also to have a nice configuration UI for delegating an OpenID. I have updated the tarball for both the XRDS plugin and the Pempeth plugin to include the new version.
Pempeth is the result of my work based on my previous private messaging TEP. The protocol draft has matured and there are now implementations! (see the page). Most notable is a WordPress plugin, active on this site.
The development of that plugin also sparked an XRDS plugin, which I have also released (despite its somewhat cryptic interface).
Those looking at the main page may also have noticed changes. Yes, that’s a mini-feed based on my online activity. Yes, it’s a plugin. The interface, however, only allows for adding sources (not editing or removing) and is somewhat cryptic, so I have not released it yet.
You can also now log into my blog with your Facebook account (see link in header)! This uses the API, so I don’t got your Facebook password or anything like that. Also an as-yet-unreleased plugin.
Fun days! I’m going to be working at AideRSS as a co-op in the coming months, should be fun and more freeing than school!
Posts and comments on your blog display in your timezone (usually). This sucks for your readers. What makes sense to them is their timezone. Trevor Creech and I have written a WordPress plugin to fix this. Using a technique suggested by Johan Sundström and the formatDate JavaScript library by Svend Tofte, this plugin shows post and comment timestamps in the viewer’s local timezone.