After another week of configuring this site, I have found another gap in functionality that I would like to have for my WordPress installation. Namely, the ability to integrate or centralize my site’s external services. For this reason, I have started my first WordPress plugin, Command Center, as a way to give myself and of course, anyone else who shares this need, a way to integrate certain external resources into their own Wordpess control panel. This plugin is still far from being mature, but I think it is at least stable and usable as a way to store, access, and manage a list of links.
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Wordpress at August 14th, 2007.
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WordPress has really come a long way since I first started using it back when it was version 1.0. It now has a nice clean admin interface (although I am currently using the tiger style admin), a clean and simple installation script, and my new favorites, dynamic sidebars and widgets. However, I noticed that the default links widget creates invalid XHTML markup. After a few minutes of looking through the XHTML and widgets.php file, I realized that the culprit was in fact a core wordpress bug. Currently, wordpress creates widgets with the following code:
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',</li>
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