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WordPress Tip: Custom RSS feed excluding one or more tags

The problem: I wanted to create an additional/alternative/extra RSS feed for a WordPress 2.7 blog that excluded posts with a given tag.

The reason there's not a straightforward way of handling this problem is because WP inexplicably doesn't offer any built-in tags/filters for excluding tags for a query the way it does with categories; plus [...]

Flying Canadian Gimps

The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that airlines cannot charge passengers with disabilities for a second seat if they require an attendant to be able to travel. Awesome!

WordPress Plugin: Textile Footnote Tweak

The Problem

The markup filter I use for WordPress, Adam Gessaman's implementation of Textile 2 has footnote behavior that I didn't like. When you use Textile to create a footnote, the resulting link goes to #fn1 or #fn2 or whatever. If you're displaying a page that happens to have multiple posts with footnotes, the browser gets [...]

WordPress Plugin: Filtered Twitter

4 Dec 2008 The download link for this plugin has been fixed. Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Liam for alerting me to the problem!

Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I use twitterfeed to auto-tweet new blog posts and new delicious bookmarks.

I wanted a way to display my latest tweet on the [...]

WordPress Plugin: Previous/Next Links By Category

I've only been using WordPress a short time now, but I do love it. In the process of tweaking my templates, I came across an issue that really needed a custom function to resolve, and I've decided to package my solution up as a plugin for anyone else who might have use of it.