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Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite.
There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether they should be stored in my site or aggregated at places like del.ici.ous. But who’s to worry about such questions? Who’s to worry when you [...]
There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. And now they work in WordPress with bSuite too (svn only, for the moment).
It’s not just because flickr popularized them that I like them, though it helps and you should definitely look at that stuff:
The announcement
Excitement from O’Reilly Radar, ProgrammableWeb, [...]
Contents:
Features
Installation
Commands
Tagging Posts
Widgets
Functions
License
Road Map
Bugs
WordPress 2.3 will have full support for tagging, bSuite Tags is my interim solution. DO NOT USE THIS unless you’ve been using a previous version of bSuite.
Features
Adds tag support to WordPress (including Flickr-style machine tags)
Uses tags to find related posts
Installation
Download and untar bsuite_btags.tar.gz
Place the bsuite_btags folder into your wp-content/plugins/ directory
Log in to your [...]
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 [...]
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bSuite Related Posts
Inserts a list of posts related to the current post (also works for pages, if you’ve tagged them). Screenshot, from Scriblio.net. Also available via the_related() template tag.
bSuite Recently Commented
Inserts a list of recently commented posts. Differs from WordPress’ built-in widget in that it only shows the posts, [...]
bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called “bsuggestive” that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive from a recognized search engine.
That is, bsuggestive does two neat things:
First, visitors will see a section in each post with links to other [...]
Contents:
Features
CMS enabling goodies
Hacking goodies
Widgets
Recognition
I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. I renamed it bSuite when I added tagging and other features to it. Now it’s bSuite 3.
Get it here. Get installation details [...]
ContentsInstallationOptionsCommandsUpgrading From bSuite 3
Installation
Get the plugin as a zip file or via SVN.
Place the the bsuite folder in your site’s wp-content/plugins directory.
Activate it, then visit the options page.
Stats will start collecting immediately, but they may not be processed and displayed in your stats report for some time (and they really won’t be useful until after [...]
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Contents:
Features
Installation
Commands
Using Tokens
date
pagemenu
innerindex
feed
redirect
Extending Tokens
License
Road Map
Bugs
bSuite Core adds some useful but hard to describe features that make it easier to use WordPress as a CMS and application platform. Some of these features stand on their own, some are there to be used by other plugins. NOTE: this plugin does not include the stats or tag management [...]
Update: bugfix release b2v6 available.
Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving him big trouble. Chow Kah Soon is in the lucky, but rare, position of having over 20,000 unique daily visitors to his site, [...]
Contents:
Built-In Tokens
date
pagemenu
innerindex
feed
redirect
Extending Tokens
Tokens are written into the post content as regular text in double square brackets like this [[token name]]. Some tokens accept options like this [[token name|option string]]. bSuite Core includes a few default tokens:
Built-In Tokens
date
Inserts the date, uses the same options as PHP’s date function.
Examples:
July 6, 2008, 5:37 pm
July 6, 2008, 5:37 pm
pagemenu
Inserts a list [...]
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We were there because of the Point Judith Corrosion Test Facility — the Rust Museum — but who can resist chasing seagulls? And who can resist posting the sequence?
Assuming you’ve got a recent browser with JavaScript enabled, you should see a bit of a slideshow above. Photos on Flickr, slideshow powered by jQuery and [...]
Ecto is finally available in Intel optimized form, but WP 2.1’s XMLRPC breaks it. Cliffy, of all people, tells us how to fix it.
Now, when is Ecto 3 coming out?
Aside: this blog post explains how to hack up the XMLRPC to extract the tags Ecto is sending. This was interesting to me a long time [...]
Contents:
Register the Token
Work the Token
The Whole Plugin
Installation and Usage
This plugin is offered as an example of how to use bSuite tokens in external plugins. If you actually want to use it for slideshows, start here.
Register the Token
A token is a string inside square brackets. It looks like this: [[token_name]] or [[token_name|options]] (options, if listed, are [...]
Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]
