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Tossed together my first plugin for Wordpress today. Personally I like using the theme and plugin editors built-in to Wordpress. However one much needed feature for me is a basic search, especially when editing the main CSS file as it is huge. So after a bit of research and some Javascript work, I’ve created Editor Search. Expecting a more clever name? Me too, but it describes what it does so I’m sticking with it. Release notes can be found on the permalink.

Download Editor Search 1.0 Plugin for WordPress 1.5

Editor Search Permalink <- Release notes here.

As I’m transitioning from the current Ensim 3.1 server to a new server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3ES with Plesk 7.5 Reloaded, one very major issue came up. I refuse to use plain FTP for file transfers, always using SFTP, yet it wasn’t working on the new server. Not cool. Turns out you need SSH enabled on the account thereby granting the user shell access. Now I need multiple SFTP accounts, but I have no desire for them all to have shell access as well. After a bit of research I came across scponly which acts like a shell, yet restricts the user to using it only for SFTP/SCP, no command prompt at all. Plesk conveniently has a selection box for you to choose a shell when granting SSH access to user accounts, so after getting scponly installed, it’s now a piece of cake to grant SFTP/SCP access without giving shell accounts. Instructions after the jump for anyone looking to do the same.
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Here we are, I think I’ve finished my template massaging for now, got it back into spec so both the XHTML and CSS validate. A few areas to restyle still, but I’m generally pleased with the current layout.

Just came across this interesting new take on graphing.
Sparkline PHP Graphing Library (http://sparkline.org/)

Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics” so named by Edward Tufte.

Personally I rather like the idea of integrating small word-sized graphs in documents, certainly would have fit in on the basic web stats overview I had in the midwestgallery.com’s user area.

Here begins my fresh new blog. It will be nice to do something a bit more visible with my beloved domain name of 5 years now. I plan to focus mainly on web development topics, a few snippets of code I’ve created and/or modified, tips I’ve picked up from the web, and clever sites/software that catches my eye.

I’ve elected to start out with the ‘Desert Theme’ by evil.bert and modify it to suit my needs. By the time I’ve finished I doubt there will be much left of the original code, but I find it nice to start with something my first time around rather than staring at the endless blank page.