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I’m sorry for not updating the blog for the last week. I’ve had some family issues and work problems I’ve been dealing with. But to make up for it I’ve spent a few hours on Email Protect, a WordPress plugin that obfuscates email addresses into text or images automatically in posts, pages, and comments to keep them from being harvested by spam bots. That’s right. Email addresses typed into posts or pages will be converted automatically into either a protected text or image format. You choose which one in the “settings”. Email addresses typed into comments are always converted into text replacements.

Since this is a release candidate I haven’t gotten around to creating a…

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Off-and-on for the past several weeks I’ve been working on a freelance WordPress plugin for the Market Theme, a premium WordPress theme that converts your site into an online store. The release of the plugin coincides with the release of Market 3, a brand new version that lets the user have both a dedicated blog and a store in one.

The theme is top notch. It makes selling both digital goods and mailed good extremely simple. So what was my role? I designed the Market Product Manager plugin which provides a much easier way to add products into the system. The theme, as most advanced themes, relies heavily on custom fields. For many users, however, custom…

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It’s just been announced that Matt Mullenweg, creator of all things WordPress, will be appearing on the WordPress Weekly Podcast on May 23rd 2008 at 9PM EST. WP Weekly is an excellent weekly podcast that covers anything related to WordPress. It’s run by my friend Jeffro over at Jeffro2pt0. Make sure not to miss this episode, it’ll be a good one for sure!

Instructions for connecting to the podcast live or downloading a recorded version after the show can be found on the official WP Weekly homepage.

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I’ve just released version 1.2 of Smart Ads, a WordPress plugin that allows users to automatically (yet intelligently!) insert advertisments like Adsense before and after their posts. This version brings three new features to the plugin.

First, users can chose to hide the advertisment that is placed before the post content if their content begins with an image. This helps save the formatting of their posts.

Second, custom ads can be inserted by placing <!-smartads-> or {smartads} into the post or page content based on the users settings in the Options menu. This allows users who use the visual editor to bypass WordPress’s default “I hate HTML” mentality by using something other then an HTML comment.

Finally, the…

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I just released a minor upgrade to Admin Favicon, a WordPress plugin which allows you to add a custom favicon to the WordPress administrative panels. It’s purely a cosmetic release which brings the CSS styling inline with WordPress 2.5. Grab the new download here.

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For those who haven’t seen, WordPress 2.5.1 has been release. The latest release fixes a major security bug related to user registrations, and over 70 other bugs. I’ll be upgrading later this evening.