Posted November 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: code, communication, messaging, plugin, sms, web development, wordpress, wordpress plugin. One Comment.

I actually use Event Calendar, which has been abandoned for some time. Looking at the alternatives listed in the Plugin Directory, Calendar, Events Calendar, and Gigs Calendar add full calendar management features to WordPress. While ICS Calendar, iCal Events, and Upcoming Events, simply offer the ability to display calendar data from elsewhere.
What I liked about [...]

Posted October 9, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: calendering, events, events calendar, plugin, plugins, wordpress. 3 Comments.

WordPress‘ Pages feature makes the popular blogging platform a sophisticated CMS. bSuite adds a few features to make it even better.

Write excerpts, tag, and categorize your pages
WordPress excerpts are an underused but powerful feature that allow you to explain to your readers why they should read the page you wrote. Tagging and [...]

Posted September 24, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, cms, features, innerindex, list_pages, plugin, shortcodes, wordpress, WordPress as CMS. Be the first one.

CAS — Central Authentication Service — has no logo, but it’s still cool. Heterogeneous environments like mine offer hundreds of different online services or applications that each need to authenticate the user. Instead of throwing our passwords around like confetti, CAS allows those applications to identify their users based on session information managed by the [...]

Posted September 3, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: CAS, central authentication service, identity management, idm, plugin, wordpress, WordPressMU. One Comment.

I announced the bSuite 4 public beta not long ago, now I’ve just posted a new version to SVN that addresses some of the bugs and fleshes out some of the features. I have yet to update the bSuite page, but here’s a preview of what’s new or changed:

Additional stats reports
WP2.5-style tag input tools on [...]

Posted June 11, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, bsuite, bsuite bstat, development, plugin, plugins, wordpress. 2 Comments.

I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard.net is a lot of fun), kicked me into gear to actually get working on it again. The result is bSuite 4, which is probably what bSuite 3 should have been all [...]

Posted June 1, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, bsuite, bsuite bstat, development, plugin, plugins, wordpress. 5 Comments.

Thanks to Mike Giarlo’s unAPI Server for WordPress. Now if only there were a library catalog built on WordPress, I could probably just drop it in.
unAPI, wordpress, plugin

Posted October 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: plugin, unAPI, wordpress. One Comment.

[]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is not bs3. It’s a transitional release intended to fix some bugs in b2 and make upgrading easier. This upgrade is recommended for all current bsuite [...]

Posted April 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, stable, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 82 Comments.

[]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available.
It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features, but those have been delayed and this is mostly just a collection of bugfixes. This update is recommended for all bsuite users.
bsuite Features

Tracks page [...]

Posted July 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 77 Comments.

I’m not running it here (only because I’m too lazy), but I was happy to find Arne Brachold’s Del.icio.us - Bookmark this! WordPress Plugin. It puts a sweet Bookmark on del.icio.us link whereever you call this function: <?php dbt_getLinkTag(“Bookmark on del.icio.us”); ?>
Arne also wrote the Google sitemap plugin I use (though it turns out I’m [...]

Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: add to del.icio.us, arne brachold, bookmarking, delicious, plugin, wordpress plugin, wp plugin. 4 Comments.