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I’d like to announce the official release of the updated Customizable Comment Listings plugin (v2.0) for WordPress.

Display Recent Comments, Pingbacks, and/or Trackbacks, Top Commenters, or Recent Commenters, and use the comment, commenter, and/or post information of your choosing to customize the how they are listed. You can narrow comment searches by specifying post IDs, comment types, and/or comment status, among other things.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/customizable-comment-listings.

This release introduces 23 new percent-substitution tag! Options are now stored in the database and configurable via the plugin’s new admin options page. The plugin has more documentation, included in its readme.txt file and on its admin options page. The release also brings with it full compatibility with WordPress 2.3+ and 2.5 (and dropping support for any earlier versions).

This update is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (updated plugin #11).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

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I’d like to announce the first official release of the Stealth Publish plugin (v1.0) for WordPress.

Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/stealth-publish.

This new plugin is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (new plugin #7).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

In place of today’s expected plugin update, Day 7 of the 14 Days of Plugins will feature the update of four existing plugins in the form of deprecations. These four plugins were originally conceived of to fill missing or incorrect behavior in the WordPress core. Since their release (and for most, as a direct result of their release), WordPress has been updated to include the behavior provided by the plugins. Thus, these plugins are no longer necessary.

Never Moderate Admin or Post Author

This plugin prevented comments made by the site admin, the post’s author, or optionally, any registered user above a specified user level, from being being moderated or marked as spam, regardless of the apparent spamminess of the comment.

When I released the plugin, I also simultaneously made a bug report and patch for the WP core, which was quickly accepted and applied.

Reported as a bug in trac ticket #1262.
Fixed in WordPress in changeset #2556.

(Updated plugin #7)

No Duplicate Comments

This plugin prevented visitors from leaving duplicate comments/pingbacks/trackbacks to a post.

When I released the plugin, I also simultaneously made a bug report and patch for the WP core, which was quickly accepted and applied.

Reported as a bug in trac ticket #1265.
Fixed in WordPress in changeset #2561.

(Updated plugin #8)

Notification Disabler

This plugin disabled notification emails about new and/or moderated comments, pingbacks, and/or trackbacks en masse or on an individual author basis.

When I released the plugin, I also simultaneously made a bug report and patch for the WP core, where it met with little discussion and was summarily closed as a “won’t fix”. Six months later, Matt posted a bug report on the same issue and a fix was proposed and committed.

Originally reported as a bug in trac ticket #1263.
Later reported as a bug in trac ticket #1670.
Fixed in WordPress in changeset #3031.

(Updated plugin #9)

Sync Draft Slug and Title

This plugin keep the post slug in sync with any changes to the post title while a post was still a draft.

When I released the plugin, I also simultaneously made a bug report and patch for the WP core. After a couple weeks of discussion and a few suggested approaches, a patch was ultimately accepted and applied.

Reported as a bug in trac ticket #.
Fixed in WordPress in changeset #2496.

(Updated plugin #10)

I’d like to announce the first official release of the Linkify Post IDs plugin (v1.0) for WordPress.

Turn a list of post IDs into a list of links to those posts.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/linkify-post-ids.

This new plugin is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (new plugin #6).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

I’d like to announce the official release of the updated Random File plugin (v1.5) for WordPress.

Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file in a specified directory.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/random-file.

This release introduces a new reftype of ‘hyperlink’, which returns the filename of the random file hyperlinked to that file. It also adds a variety of error checks and small plugin tweaks. The release also brings with it full compatibility with WordPress 2.3+ and 2.5 (with continued support for 1.5+, 2.0+, 2.1+ and 2.2+).

This update is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (updated plugin #6).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

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I’d like to announce the first official release of the Safe Function Call plugin (v1.0) for WordPress.

Safely call functions that may not be available (for example, from within a template, calling a function that is provided by a plugin that may be deactivated).

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/safe-function-call.

This new plugin is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (new plugin #5).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

I’d like to announce the official release of the updated wpuntexturize plugin (v1.0) for WordPress.

Prevent WordPress from displaying single and double quotation marks as their curly alternatives.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/wpuntexturize/.

This is a fairly minor update to the plugin, mostly to update the documentation to note that it is indeed compatible with all versions of WordPress up through 2.5. A minor code tweak and changed description round out the release.

This update is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (updated plugin #5).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

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I’d like to announce the first official release of the Custom Admin Post Listing plugin (v1.1) for WordPress.

Configure the post listing fields shown in the admin section under Manage → Posts by removing existing columns or adding columns consisting of custom field data.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/custom-admin-post-listing.

This new plugin is part of coffee2code’s 14 Days of Plugins (new plugin #4).

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.