It took longer than I expected to upgrade my AdBlock Plugin, but it’s up to version 3.0 – and ActiveBlogging Platinum Members are already downloading it free.

Aside from updating the code, and making sure it works on WordPress 2.8.4 (yes, it WAS tested on the latest!), most of the changes involve small upgrades to the features – the ability to add nofollow tags to the Javascript code (just in case Google indexes them, a seeming possibility now), easy CSS coding (so you can position the ad precisely, or put …

I’ve just released a new plugin – one that leverages the power of Social networking with comments and Review sites.

It’s called “Dave’s Social 2.0 Rating Plugin” (or “Dave’s Social Ratings 2.0 Plugin”, depending on my mood), and it allows people to rate posts easily – one click with their comment.

For example, comments here can include rating – and the total is shown below.

The big advantages – VERY flexible, and theme-friendly (NO editing required).

You can read more here about it, and buy a copy.

Of course, ActiveBlogging …

If I told you I could tell at a glance what Wordpress version you were running was, would you be concerned?

You should be.

With the recent release of WordPress 2.6.5, and the imminent release of 2.7, there’s a lot of attention on security, and people hacking Wordpress sites to gain control of them. So more than ever, it pays to be watching out for any information you give out that could give hackers a leg up.

One such is the version number – every WordPress theme displays it, thanks …

I released a new plugin for all that fixes a nagging problem: specifically, the WordPress nagging message when a new version comes out.

What it does is very simple – it moves the nag message away a bit, so it doesn’t take up as much space on your page. Still nagging, but a little more discreet and out of the way (a chiding message, perhaps?).

In any case, I got tired of losing a 1/2 inch of screen space at the top of the web page every time a …

My Open Source plugin U-Cron makes it easy to time things without setting up a cron job.

But things CAN go wrong – after all, one plugin will not serve the needs of every site out there – there’s too many combinations of versions of PHP, mySQL, WordPress, Operating systems, hardware, (and so on and so on)…

So here’s a bit of a checklist on what to check out:

U-Cron requires your theme to cooperate. At the bottom of most themes today is a function call wp_footer() – if this …