New WordPress Plugin: Sparkplug

Mar 05 2009

I’ve just released a plugin I’ve been working on called “Sparkplug”. It’s quite simple (although some of the code turned out to be a lot more complex than I expected!), and just gives you a small sparkline graphic indicating the number of posts per day for the current “view”. This is particularly handy on multi-author blogs which are split up into discrete sections via category or tag.

It was specifically written for/tested on the as-yet-unreleased Prologue Projects theme from Automattic, so when that comes out, it’ll be ready to go. Check out all the details about Sparkplug.

Me, Live (ish)!

Listened to Paul's Birthday, Manitoba (20 Mar, 12:34 am)

Listened to Death By Chocolate, De-Phazz (20 Mar, 12:28 am)

Listened to Chocolate Elvis (Bazoo Bajou Soul Searcher's mix), Tosca (20 Mar, 12:23 am)

Listened to Aimin At Your Head, Pretty Lights (20 Mar, 12:18 am)

Listened to Block 16 / Slow Hot Wind, Thievery Corporation (20 Mar, 12:07 am)

Listened to Gabriel, Lamb (20 Mar, 12:04 am)

Listened to Carol Williams / Can't get away (from your love), Jazzanova (20 Mar, 12:00 am)

Listened to Duende, A Man Called Adam (19 Mar, 11:55 pm)

Listened to Curbside Prophet (live), Jason Mraz (19 Mar, 11:48 pm)

Listened to Love Affair, Dalminjo Feat. Hilde Drange (19 Mar, 11:44 pm)

Tweeted: RT @actionnewssf: A motorcycle driver has driven off the Folsom St/Bay Bridge exit and landed on Clementina and First. [?!?!?!] # (19 Mar, 9:08 pm)

Watched Chuck - s3 | e10 - Chuck Versus the Tic Tac on hulu.com (19 Mar, 6:17 am)

Watched 24 - s8 | e12 - 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM on hulu.com (19 Mar, 5:24 am)

Tweeted: OH: "I'm a good person, you know? I'm not a freak or anything." # (19 Mar, 5:06 am)

Watched 24 - s8 | e11 - 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM on hulu.com (19 Mar, 5:05 am)

Tweeted: I'm going to write a @foursquare importer to get my checkins into @wordpress as custom posts. # (19 Mar, 12:39 am)

Bookmarked Infochimps - "Infochimps is an open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything." (18 Mar, 9:38 pm)

Tweeted: Just used Time Machine for the first time to recover a deleted file. Pretty nifty (esp the animations ;) ) # (18 Mar, 5:40 pm)

Bookmarked MySQLTuner.pl - Perl script that scans a MySQL install and suggests different settings that might be more optimized for its load profile. (18 Mar, 4:35 pm)

Tweeted: Good to be home. Now to decompress and get some sleep. # (18 Mar, 4:05 am)

Tweeted: DFW:SFO # (17 Mar, 10:56 pm)

Tweeted: Just saw a guy wearing khaki coveralls and a black blazer... huh? # (17 Mar, 10:43 pm)

Tweeted: DFW:SFO (@ Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) w/ @tychay) http://4sq.com/8AkNV # (17 Mar, 9:46 pm)

Tweeted: After a session today at SXSW, looking forward to checking out jQTouch in more detail: http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/ # (16 Mar, 9:31 am)

Tweeted: This guy is nuts! http://yfrog.com/5f2u9ij # (16 Mar, 4:28 am)

Tweeted: Getting some work done from my hotel room before heading back to the SXSW madness. # (15 Mar, 5:13 pm)

Tweeted: OH: "@chrismessina is creating the next generation of PR" # (15 Mar, 6:34 am)

Tweeted: OH: "The lost art of American husbandry, is saying No." # (15 Mar, 3:25 am)

Tweeted: Setting up at @conjunctured for the @wordpress BBQ lunch. It's going to be delicious: http://yfrog.com/2tvunj # (14 Mar, 4:44 pm)

Tweeted: RT @janeforshort: Lunch tomorrow=WordPress BBQ! 100lb of Rudy's meat, red velvet cake, tea, sides. Noon, 1309 E 7th St. RT as you see fit. # (13 Mar, 11:11 pm)