I am currently exuding a geeky glow because I wrote my first WordPress plugin. It’s called Pick Giveaway Winner and it does what its title implies: it randomly picks a giveaway winner from the comments of a post. It also lets me disqualify people who enter more than once, or just give them one entry to even the odds. I wrote it because I needed it and no one had written it.
You can read a bit more about it on the Make My Blog Pretty blog. Right now I’m just happy I figured out how to submit it to the official WordPress Plugin Directory, which required me to use Subversion, which I sorta hate and gave me horrible command-line flashbacks to my old job. -mkdir never-again-please
Anyway, I hope this plugin helps make a few bloggers’ lives easier.
Lorraine Ball says
January 2, 2011 at 4:54 pmYour timing is perfect. We are working on a site, and the client just asked about this type of plug in. We will give it a try!
AF says
January 2, 2011 at 4:57 pmSweet.
Kimberly says
January 2, 2011 at 5:09 pmThat is pretty frakking cool. WTG!
Kalynskitchen says
January 2, 2011 at 5:09 pmNeedless to say I’m impressed!
Auntie Mandy says
January 2, 2011 at 6:16 pmI have no clue what you said!
Debby says
January 2, 2011 at 8:34 pmYou are just too cool! :-) Happy New Year, PQ!
Merry says
January 2, 2011 at 8:42 pmIt’s okay to be geeky. We’ll still love you. :)
Last week at work, I had an engineer give me a History of the Nerf Gun lecture. His cube had 12 different Nerf guns, each from a different stage of Nerf’s product history, which he used to illustrate the lecture. Now that’s pushing the boundaries of geek.
Lanie says
January 2, 2011 at 11:51 pmI have no idea what you just said which makes me feel a lot less geekier than I did an hour ago when I dowloaded almost all of the books from the card game “Authors” on to my Kindle (they’re free downloads).
Ninjutsu Training says
January 3, 2011 at 2:00 amThat’s awesome! Just using wordpress freaks me out, so writing a plugin to me is like magic—congrats!
Jenn says
January 3, 2011 at 8:55 amGeek out all you want – that’s a definite accomplishment. =)
I know a lot of bloggers who would find this useful. Now, to get them to move from Blogspot to WordPress…
Terra says
January 5, 2011 at 11:57 amSo Cool!!!
Kristin says
January 6, 2011 at 1:03 amImpressive!
Just stopping by to browse a bit…reading Half-Assed right now and so inspired by your story. Just mentioned you on my own blog, actually (http://junecleaverwouldbeshocked.blogspot.com/2011/01/were-off-to-slow-start.html) – hope you don’t mind. Looking forward to reading through your blog when I finish with the book.
Hope you have a great 2011!
Anonymous Fat Girl says
January 7, 2011 at 8:33 amAwesome plugin in PQ. WTG on the new book too! :)