Category Archives: WordPress

Metaverse ID 0.14.2 released!

September 30th, 2009 – 11:31am

While tinkering away this morning with an upgrade to my WordPress plugin MV-ID, I thought I’d sneak in a new feature: shortcode support!
What this means is that in addition to sidebar widgets, you can now embed the profiles inside blog posts like so: [mv-id mv=’agni SL’ id=’83b3987f-9520-4275-8efe-3ac13dd3f635′].
The plugin supports displaying individual profiles as shown above, [...]

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Metaverse ID: first Second Life WordPress plugin in the official directory

May 25th, 2009 – 7:53am

Okay, I know oldbies hate it when something floats around about “firsts” in Second Life, but I do think its rather nifty that Metaverse ID is the first plugin for Second Life listed in the official WordPress Plugin Directory!

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Metaverse ID plugin released to public

May 7th, 2009 – 9:52am

Currently at version 0.5 (yay incremental improvements!), I’ve decided to push the code to the public SVN server over at google code. I’ve also created a wiki page describing Metaverse ID, that’ll I’ll be keeping up to date with the supported Metaverses etc.
Please file any bugs you discover in the plugin on the Google issue [...]

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WordPress Podcast bed music

February 10th, 2008 – 2:24am

Charles Stricklin
Episode 2, regarding the choice of jazz music
Next comes the choice in music. Some people loved it, most people hated it. While I may find a more up tempo song, it’ll definitely be a jazz piece, and not some techno song. One reason is because everyone uses techno for their bed music, and I’d [...]

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Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer: Using the BotBouncer API

September 25th, 2007 – 7:24am

In my previous post, I showed how a one-line modification would allow you to route OpenID logins through BotBouncer to help protect your WordPress blog from bot-spam. There was one problem with the one-liner method though, it’d route logins through BotBouncer every time a user tried to login to your WordPress blog with their OpenID- [...]

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Modding WPopenid to produce valid XHTML

September 24th, 2007 – 5:40am

user-interface.php
remove <h4> and </h4> from lines 282 and 285

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Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer

September 15th, 2007 – 4:20am

If you’re not familiar with them….
WPopenid is a plugin for WordPress to allow OpenID logins, and BotBouncer is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs.
The Mod

openid-registration.php, line 257
$this->start_login( $_POST['openid_url'], ‘http://botbouncer.com/captcha/queryuser?return_to=’ . urlencode(get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/’ . $redirect_to) . ‘&openid=’ . $_POST['openid_url'] );

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Setting up WP:MU subdomain'd blogs on Dreamhost without wildcard DNS entries

July 4th, 2007 – 9:14am

install WP:MU in /home/user/example.com/blog/
use the interface to add a new blog under foo.example.com
log into panel.dreamhost.com
add foo.example.com as a mirror of example.com

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I’ve moved…. well, sort of.

January 28th, 2007 – 10:08pm

If you bookmark this blog….
If you bookmark or subscribe to this blog, you’ll want to update thing to point to blog.signpostmarv.name, although WordPress.com has everything redirected nicely, so nothing should break, it’ll just speed things up a tad.

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Boo!

May 15th, 2006 – 1:54pm

So I decided I should stick to my own advice
I’ve been advising Volunteers to create blogs using their full SL as the URL. It made sense for me to do this even though I already have a wordpress blog, so that I can use this for off duty Second Life stuff, and keep my other [...]

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