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Join Hands to kill the menance that is IE6

Microsoft has launched a new website ie6countdown.com to request people to stop using IE6 and upgrade to the latest IE version.

I have written a quick wordpress plugin which will let us wordpress users join hands to Kill IE6 easily.

Download and install IE6 Countdown Plugin : here

Post you feedback below and join hands to drop IE6 usage to below 1%.

Reports about Wp-Insert Clones

I just came across a comparison between Wp Insert and another plugin names WP OPT Insert on a couple different websites

I have no clue as to what the aforementioned plugin does; but according to the different blog posts I read today both plugins seem to be somewhat similar. Wp-Insert is a multifunctional plugin and comparisons like this occur frequently. This particular one shows up in a lot of sites though

Do note that neither me nor SmartLogix Technologies is in any way related or affiliated with the developer/marketers of the so called plugin Wp Opt Insert.

Wp-Insert is created with the sole intention of giving back something to the wonderful wordpress community and I believe in opensource and GPL.

I request everyone in the community to help and support each other either by donations, code snippets or reporting bugs or in any other way you can and help more and more people use the magnificent piece of code named WordPress.

Wp-Insert is back in the repository..

Wp-Insert is back in the repository..

Wp-Insert is no longer in the plugin repository

Wp-Insert doesn’t seem to be showing up in the search results in the plugin installation page after the WordPress 3.0.2 update.

I don’t have any clue about whats going on!

I have written to WordPress mentioning the issue but haven’t received a reply yet. I will post an update here as soon as I know whats going on.

Meanwhile you should be able to download the plugin from the repository link : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-insert/ and upload it using the plugin upload page.

[UPDATE] : Wp-Insert rivals most premium plugins while being a FREE GPL plugin. A lot of time and effort has gone into development ad maintainance of Wp-Insert. Wp-Insert has got around $200 in donations out of which $90 was donated by the user Mary in October. The ads in the plugin admin page has earned $1.75 to date. The figures should you the economics of free plugin development. If the plugin doesn’t get exposure at the repository new users wont be able to find the plugin and existing users wont be able to update or install it easily. This will slowly erode the user base as i don’t have the capital to invest in any kind of marketing activity.

Share your views on how to let users know about a plugin in case it was not hosted on wordpress.org and whether the enormous development effort required justifies the case without enough users. Should development on Wp-Insert to continue and why? Share your views..

[UPDATE] : I just got a mail from wordpress.org mentioning the following -  “there is a problem with the search on the Plugins directory. Nothing has been withdrawn. We are trying to get this fixed”.  Hope everything gets fixed soon.

Wp-Insert 1.7.3 released

This interim bug fix release should take care of two issues causing the manage ads page to go blank and the popup post/page picker to disappear in some blogs.

I wish to thank FreshSuperCool for his comment http://www.wp-insert.blogolb.net/how-to-prevent-ads-from-showing-up-on-a-particular-page/comment-page-1/#comment-861 which fixes a bug (Post picker wont appear if there are special characters in post/page names)

I have also limited the number of posts/pages in the popup post picker to 200 to avoid the memory limit issues some users were facing.