Wordpress hackery

Tuesday, January the thirteenth, two thousand and nine.

For years I’ve stubbornly refused to use content management systems. This is mostly due to the almost uncontrollable urge I have to code everything myself, from scratch. So, in a pathetic attempt to avoid admitting that I was wrong, I’ve decided to redefine “scratch”.

Good thing too. It’s refreshing.

I can actually get t’interweb related things done without the guilt associated with accepting help from others. After all; I didn’t create PHP, I didn’t single-handedly invent the myriad of other lower level programming languages upon which it relies, I wasn’t the first to think of using transistors (or even valves) to express binary logic, I wasn’t even responsible for the big-bang (I know, this shocked me too).

I think I’ll make a habit of re-defining “scratch” and re-assessing exactly which giants I chose to stand on the shoulders of.

Anyhoo, on that note I thought I’d share (in the spirit of blogging and such) a little Wordpress Plugin I wrote during this site’s development. I call it textualise, and it does just that - perfect for those who don’t wish to show up their lack of design skill by attempting icons and such.

Post dates, after some craziness, become something like “monday, january the twelfth, two thousand and nine”. Similarly, it will consume your comment counters and adventually pass “three others helped” or “no one has helped”. Feel free to download it and do with it as you please. If you do happen to tidy up the code let me know, I’ll be more than happy to accept your help.