Monthly Archives May 2008

How to Write Plugins for WordPress MU – updated

Last year I gave a ink to a short post on the basics of WPMU plugin development by itdamager. It turns out that that post is no longer available online. So is a cached copy of it: Plugins for WordPress and WordPress MU are very similar but there are a few specific MU commands and […]

StatCounter vs. PayPal

According to the StatCounter blog (more here) there are some problems in the PayPal kingdom. It seems that following an update on PayPal’s web site few issues where reported with the service (confirmed by PayPal and some reported to be solved). However, StatCounter claim that more issues arose: The Paypal Handling Cart feature completely broke […]

Unfiltered MU plugin

As you may know WordPress-MU doe’s not allow the users to use all html tags within their posts and pages. This is to reduce the security risks of allowing running scripts and embeddings unfiltered elements. This is done to all level of users even the systems administrators. However, in some cases, one wants to grant […]

Monetize your blog content using Premium text messaging

Just came accross a new plugin by Zong that allows bloggers to charge readers for post, feed or services via SMS: Content Pay by Zong allows you to monetize your blog content using Premium text messaging. Your reader sends a text message using his mobile phone and he receives a code that gives him access […]

WordPress-MU 1.5.1 is out

WordPress Mu 1.5.1 is out. Donncha announced: The long delayed version 1.5.1 of WordPress MU has just been released. If you don’t want to read the rest of this post head to the download page and grab the zip file or tarball but make sure you come back here to read the upgrade docs. This […]

Amazon’s services Current Status page

In my previous post about the first month data of using Amazon’s S3 I had a comment asking about any down time in the service. Well, I have not noticed any down time but I would like to point you to amazon’s current status page. It reads: Amazon Web Services publishes our most up-to-the-minute information […]

First month data using S3 offloading for WPMU

April was our first month of using the themes-s3 plugin for offloading WordPress-Mu theme files to Amazon-S3. I have received the monthly bill from Amazon just a few days ago and thought I would share the numbers. So here you go ( the numbers in bold are the real costs): $0.15 per GB-Month of storage […]