The end of the plugin competition is on 15 days away. We have over 52 registered authors on the pluginblog, many many plugins have come out of the competition and all of this is great news for the WordPress community. Just a few items for the competition hopefuls. (This information is cross-posted on the pluginblog and the pluginwiki and on WeblogToolsCollection.com.) In order to make sure that I have the correct bit of code and to level the playing field, I request that the plugins be sent to me email address as an entry into the competition. Here is what is needed: One email per plugin entered into the competition Subject of the email should be exactly “WordPress Plugin Competition #1 Entry” followed by the name of your plugin The email should contain the following: A zip file with your code and complete installation instructions A small writeup of what […]

The Pictorialis Forums have been hacked beyond repair. The hackers have left a message that says that the data is intact and can be restored but I refuse to ask them to do so or pay them in return. From what I gather, the database was modified to stuff the data into table overhead and out of the tables. I realize that a lot of information (and a lot of hard work from users/programmers) on and about Pictorialis used to be on those forums and I would like to restore them from my last backup (from about 3 weeks ago) which I think I can do. This will take some time and the forums might not be up for some time. I apologize for the inconvenience. I have received a lot of good advice from PHPBB admins. I concede that I had not upgraded in the past few months and […]