Ben Huson

One plugin I recommend that everyone should add to their WordPress installation is the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

This plugin will automatically generate an XML sitemap of your posts and pages and ping supporting search engines to notify them that the sitemap has been updated.

But the best thing about this plugin for other plugin developers is it provides hooks so you can ‘borrow’ it’s functionality so that your plugin can add additional pages into the XML sitemap that is generated.

So if you’re a WordPress plugin developer, read on…

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I’ve made my first contribution to the WP e-Commerce plugin – my first contribution to an open source project…

It’s a great e-commerce plugin for WordPress but there were a few visual things niggling me that I thought should be sorted out – mainly the way that the widget for showing categories was not styled the same way as the WordPress default widgets.

Fixing the issue was just a case of making a couple of tweaks to the HTML; changing some square brackets to normal brackets and removing some bold styling.

Nothing revolutionary there, but it should now look a whole lot better with your default WordPress theme without making any modifications…

The current version in development WP e-Commerce 3.7 is looking great, with an overhaul of the user interface to bring it into line with WordPress 2.7, a complete reorganisation of the code making it easier for us developers, and a new template engine which works along the same lines at the WordPress Loop so that theme authors can now get in on the act without having to delve too far into the plugin’s code.

Blair McMillan has just released a weather plugin for WordPress which works hand-in-hand with my WP Geo plugin.

Designed for people who use their blog while traveling, Weather Traveller allows you to add weather information to the bottom of your posts so you can let your blog readers know what the weather is like in the location you specify at the time you post.

For more information and to download the plugin visit:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/weather-traveller/

Just stumbled across downloads of previous versions of Flash Player which available from the Adobe web site – handy if you’re developing Flash. There is also a Flash plugin uninstaller.

If you’re not a developer, make sure you download the latest Flash plugin…