Daily Archives: Friday, 20th April 2007
Grey Day
It was definitely a bit chilly this morning, and still grey and damp. As it was trying to rain, I decided to take the bus to work, shock, horror, etc.
After work, I decided to pay a return visit to Oddbins for a couple more bottles of that rather nice Tadpole Shiraz. It seemed like a good idea.
Better Plugin Management
One of the features expected to be in the slightly delayed WordPress 2.2 is the much needed[1] ability to deactivate all plugins. It’s always been standard advice to deactivate all plugins when upgrading WordPress, and this will
- Make this much easier
- Make it much more likely that people will actually do it
Of course, having deactivated all your plugins, you’ll want to reactivate them all. And as this can be a bit tedious if you have a lot of them[2], Dougal Campbell has written a slight modification which will automagically reactivate the plugins for you. Nice.
We’ll also be getting a “plugin sandbox”, which checks for errors when plugins are activated, and if activating a plugin generates an error, it will be automatically deactivated before it can cause site breakage, earthquakes or other problems.
[1] And slightly overdue, in my not particularly humble opinion
[2] I seem to have well over 30 at present 
Clever advertising
Get It In Writing: Amazing Advertisements
Some nice examples of clever visual advertising. Some familiar, some less so. Worth a look.
Update: Another lost link. Shame I can’t remember what was there….
