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Doing your own thing and going your own way can be a big trip. Face it, it can be a lot of fun hen you blaze your own trails and make your own path. Lately I have been trying to do more of it in the way of business and technology. Unfortunately, I have found that blazing new trails can be a lot of work.

Take for example, web hosting. I have started to do hosting of my own sites myself. This means that I am responsible for everything, including maintaining the server, securing the server and doing backups. It means that I need to do backups on a regular basis in order to keep things running smoothly. It’s a lot of work, but it is something I need to do.

Another example is writing plugins. Since I try to come up with something new and interesting, it means that sometimes I am coming up with entirely new ways of programming. I can’t really rely on anyone else to check and see if I am doing it right. It means I spend a lot more time doing trial and error to make sure I get things right.

That’s ok. I know both of these are improving my skills and making me more self reliant, and that’s something very good.

I have been thinking of putting together a new WordPress plugin. I have category magic and it is doing a good job. There are some some modifications I need to do with it as I have noticed a few things it could do better and more efficiently, but I really want to create a new plugin. I am looking for suggestions for a new and interesting plugin. Is there any WordPress functionality you are looking for? Anything that could be interesting to do? I was thinking about something with tags that are built into the newest WordPress version, but any ideas would be appreciated.

I really like this Copyblogger theme that I am using here. I have been using it on a couple of other sites I have. It’s a very clean theme and it just looks nice. It’s also optimized. That means it looks good for browser and search engines. That’s the good news about it.
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Programming WordPress Plugins is a great opportunity to hone your PHP programming skills and learn a lot about the inner workings of WordPress. It’s a great way to give something back to the community in the form of a usable additions to WordPress functionality. It keeps with the spirit of WordPress and helps WordPress improve itself.

It’s almost like a drug. Once you make one plugin, you start thinking about ways to improve your plugin. You start to think about other plugin ideas, ways to improve the functionality and style of your site.

I have the Category Magic Plugin and I am working on a redesign of the inner functionality of it, doing tests to improve how it does its job. It’s a fun thing. How did I get the idea for it? A friend wanted to display double category posts in the sidebar and felt it should be easy to do. I embarked on the plugin to help him.

Any ideas for new WordPress Plugins?

Ah, the big news is WordPress 2.3. It’s the newest version of WordPress. The WordPress is the engine that runs this and thousands(maybe millions) of other sites on the net and there’s a new version out. Normally, I try to manage a quick upgrade on all of my sites using a shell script I have.
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