Monthly Archive for April, 2008

WP Mail SMTP v0.6 released

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Callum
2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Just released a new version of the WP Mail SMTP plugin. There were a stream of similar questions about one particular error message over the last few months. Hopefully this new version will provide more detailed debugging output. I’d recommend upgrading to anyone having problems. There are no bugfixes or security fixes in this update, so it’s not a priority release.

Update: I’ve released version 0.7 today as well. This version fixes a long-standing bug where the plugin would overwrite the from name and email, even if they had been set by another plugin (or WordPress itself). I recommend everyone update to 0.7 as soon as possible.

Installed a sitemap

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Callum
3 months, 1 week ago
in Fun and Techy
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I’m on a mission to take the top spot when searching for “Callum”. I’m currently number 2 on Scroogle and number 21 on Yahoo. In my continuing efforts for worldwide Callum domination, I’ve installed the XML Sitemap Plugin. Hopefully this will help these search engines to realise the error of their ways and promote me to my rightful position as number 1!

Pidgin character count plugin on Fedora

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Callum
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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If you’re a pidgin and Twitter user like myself, it’s hard to keep your tweets under 140 characters. Dossy created a character count plugin for this very purpose.

To install on Fedora (and possibly others) simply grab the .deb file Dossy kindly published here. Open the .deb in archive manager. Open the contained data.tar.gz file. Then drop the contained “convcharcount.la” and “convcharcount.so” files into your /usr/lib/pidgin/ directory. You’ll need to do this as root.

Now open Pidgin (restart is not required), Tools > Plugins, and tick the conv. input character count plugin. Bingo, it works like a charm for me on Fedora 8 with Pidgin 2.4.1. Thanks Dossy. :)