Comments on: I Have A New Pet

By: Tumbleweed Plugin Revives your old Blog Posts : Graphic Design Blog

Tumbleweed Plugin Revives your old Blog Posts : Graphic Design Blog — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:04:48 +0000

[...] section called Tumbleweed. This is a neat little plugin I discovered reading Andy Beards Blog post I have a new pet. What this plugin does is shows your readers older posts they may have missed. This is ideal for [...]

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:18:01 +0000

This is a great idea, especially for newish blogs like mine, that are steadily building up readership, but have a lot of early post that may not have been read by that many people.

By: rob watts

rob watts — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:51:55 +0000

Glad to see it back there Andy, I’m seeing it on your individual blog post pages here now, and am dead jealous of your TR7 :D.

I’m learning that this plugin building lark can be quite a PITA especially when they don’t work as expected elsewhere. You get all enthused to see them doing what you want them to, only to feel incredibly frustrated when others recount problems and nonworkiness.

I’ll be rewriting the thing as and when I get the time, but for now, Ive put the little critter back in its box.

By: robwatts

robwatts — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:22:39 +0000

Don’t you just love these things when they behave exactly how you don’t expect them to?

I’ve no idea why Andy’s new pet(love that descriptor) isn’t behaving itself; he is actually the second person to tell me it had misbehaved, so in view of that I’ve decided to pull the plugin until I can figure out what is up with it.

Apologies for anyone who it may have frustrated the hell out of. I’ll let everyone know once its resolved.

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:58:09 +0000

Apart from the usual need to port the code to a class (lots of dollarsign this points-to prefixes and the nominal platform specific stuff WP plugs port quite well.