Tim Kissane's Inflatable Soapbox » Plugins http://timkissane.com Thoughts on Technology, Society and Life Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:36:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tuesday Tech Troubles and Triumphs: WordPress Archives Plugin http://timkissane.com/technology/software/php/tuesday-tech-troubles-and-triumphs-wordpress-archives-plugin/ http://timkissane.com/technology/software/php/tuesday-tech-troubles-and-triumphs-wordpress-archives-plugin/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:48:35 +0000 Tim http://timkissane.com/index.php/archives/44 Today is the first in a regular weekly series, Tuesday Tech Troubles and Triumphs. I think I’ll probably have more troubles than triumphs to share, so let me start with one I’m having now. A client of mine wants his WordPress archives to be displayed in an expandable/collapsible format in the sidebar. He referred me to this blog on blogspot.com as an example. The code that displays the archives is a widget written by Google software engineer Lexi Baugher. I’ve been looking for a similar plugin, because that would be much faster (and cheaper for him). I’ve found several, including this one by Ady Romantika that would be perfect.

The trouble: they are all only available as widgets and his heavily customized blog is not widgetized. Unless I have a better suggestion from one of my readers, I’ll have to reverse engineer a widget into a straight plugin. I have almost no time to do this. Please comment with suggestions or WordPress plugin stories of your own. Hopefully by next Tuesday, I’ll have turned this trouble into a triumph.

I’ll now tag five unsuspecting techies and turn this into a meme:

Merlin, Merlin’s Minute

Ian, Failure is the Key to Success

Joe, JoeTech.com

Chuck, D is for Dad

Rob, All Things Seen and Unseen

Gentlemen, start your engines.

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