January 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm
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.
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Lorraine Ball • January 2, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Your 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!
Merry • January 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm
It’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.
Ninjutsu Training • January 3, 2011 at 2:00 am
That’s awesome! Just using wordpress freaks me out, so writing a plugin to me is like magic—congrats!
Kristin • January 6, 2011 at 1:03 am
Impressive!
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 • January 7, 2011 at 8:33 am
Awesome plugin in PQ. WTG on the new book too! :)
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