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I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• June 21st, 2007

  Feed Statistics Plugin Fixed

  If you had downloaded the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress and couldn’t use it because of an error during activation, version 1.0.3 is for you. The “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” message was being caused by my usage of PHP’s short open tags, which I should have known are [...]

• June 20th, 2007

  Feed Statistics: Now with fewer bots!

  I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress again, this time to stop it from counting bots as users. If you’ve been running the plugin already, it will take a few days for the bots already counted as users to filter out. So your subscriber count may drop a little, but on the plus side, [...]

• June 19th, 2007

  Feed Statistics: Updated Already?

  As is customary when you release some code and then immediately go to bed, Feed Statistics 1.0 had a small bug in it that made it non-functioning on about half of WordPress blogs, depending on the permalink structure being used. I’ve updated the plugin to version 1.0.1 to address this problem. Download it here, and [...]

• June 18th, 2007

  Feed Statistics Plugin for WordPress

  Feed Statistics is a plugin I’ve written for WordPress blogs that monitors and displays the number of people who read your blog via the RSS feed. That’s all it does for now, and it does it well. In future versions, I may add more statistics and functionality (like displaying which feed readers your readers are [...]

• March 4th, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

• February 22nd, 2007

  Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

  Wiiiii!

• February 3rd, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

  I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

• January 29th, 2007

  Social Traffic Statistics

  Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by the Social Traffic Monitor plugin. This is the chart that the [...]