Adam R Brown

My latest plugin is a simple piece of code that replicates the `code in backticks` function used in the wp.org support forums . It works in posts and comments, although it’s mainly intended for the comments section (because there are already many, many, many plugins for pasting code into posts).

(If you use it in posts, you must use the code view–it will not work in the visual editor, I assure you. By that, I mean that you need to have the visual editor disabled in your profile. Otherwise, when you go back later to edit the post, it will try to open in the visual editor first, and it will get screwy.)

So now when folks are asking me questions about my plugins, they can just insert an error message or a piece of code right into their comment with no difficulty at all. How lovely.

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I named 68 HTML elements in 5 minutes and missed 23 (dang it). It’s harder than it sounds. Try the quiz .

I just added gravatar support to my comments section. I wish I had done it ages ago. Suddenly, half my old commenters have faces.

I had no idea how easy it was to make my picture show up on people’s blogs. All you do is go to gravatar.com and associate an image with your email address. Then, whenever you comment (in the future or the past) on a blog using that email address, your picture shows up. Done.

Most of my posts on this blog relate to my WordPress plugins. But I also host a wiki , and it took me some time to figure out how to code a MediaWiki bot in PHP to perform automated tasks.

Download my BasicBot MediaWiki Bot template here if you want. If you have questions, you can post them as comments here.

Please note that this project has moved to my back burner, and then some. I got it working for my purposes. If you get it working for yours, great. But don’t be surprised if it takes me awhile to respond…

I’ve reworked my site’s theme. Please let me know if you run into bugs.

KB Survey will be on wordpress.org as soon as they get around to approving the plugin. My last plugins have taken weeks to get processed over there, so it may be a while…..

Announcing the completely reinvented KB Gradebook 1.0, a dramatic improvement over v0.1.3!

I’ve completely rewritten KB Gradebook. The biggest change: You can now upload CSV files containing grade data. That makes the uploading process much, much faster and more convenient. Plus, there are now fewer steps involved in updating the grading information.

If you are upgrading from a previous version, please don’t do it until you read the important comments at the top of the KB Gradebook plugin file.

v1.0 will show up over in the plugins repository in a few minutes here. Here’s the link: Download KB Gradebook plugin .