Event Cal: Initial Public Release

February 29, 2008 – 11:39 am

My initial public release. I’ve installed this plugin on a couple of live sites. It seems to be working stably. There are some issues I need to address.

Download ZT Event Calendar ver 1.2

Known Issues:

  • Browsing to a month with no events gives a 404 page.

To-Do’s:

  • fix 404 problem
  • add ability to jump to different months instead of having to crawl month to month

Post and Page Edit Locking

February 29, 2008 – 11:24 am

My first plugin was for a client who needed to be able to lock posts for editing. They were having issues with overwriting each others changes. I am pleased with how this came out considering that it was my first real wordpress plugin. Using javascript, ajax, and php sessions variables, I successfully made it such that when a editor/author opens a page or post for editing, it locks the post using that user’s id. If others try to open the post for editing, a alert box pops up telling them its locked for editing by “user” and then kicks them kindly back to the manage posts screen.

If you are interested in this plugin, please contact me.

Plugin should work on WP 2.3+ or WPMU 1.3+

Obligatory first post

February 29, 2008 – 10:26 am

Well, the domain is setup on my server. WordPress is installed. The wordpress theme you see is from themes.wordpress.net. I spent all of about 2 minutes finding it. Someday I’ll do my own but it is way way way down there on my to-do list. Just too busy. I appreciate designers sharing their templates. Thanks to Bob for this one. You can find his link on the bottom of this site.

Now its time to setup the plugins area. This being the reason to create this site.

Update:  Well, I’ve spent a few hours throwing some content in.  I’m pretty happy with this.  I’ve tweaked the theme ever so slightly.  So in about 5 hours I went from no site to pretty much fully done site and ready for me to manage on a weekly basis.  Not too shabby.