A little while ago Alper Çuğun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for an image in the hCard. This is a nice step towards URL-based identifiers rather than email based ones. However, I also wanted to show avatars for users who use Gravatar or MyBlogLog. [...]

Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins – apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did remember this time to disable tweet-tools, so I won’t be twitter spamming.) Testing comments via OpenID – if you enter an OpenID url in the “url” box of the comment field it [...]

Anyone know of a decent WordPress plugin for blogging about new music purchases? What I’m looking for is basically something to pull in the CD image and perhaps tracklist (from Amazon, from iTunes, from eMusic, from discogs.org – I don’t care) for a CD based on title/artist, and dump it in to a blog entry. That’d make it much easier [...]