Job Manager 0.3.0 Released
*sniffles* It’s growing up so quickly!
This new release sees a few new features:
- Framework for supporting additional functionality through plugins
- Support for Sitemaps, through Google XML Sitemaps
- POT file added, for translations
On top of that, a pile of bug fixes. The Changelog has all the details.
As always, the Job Manager home page remains the same. If you want to dive right into the action, download it here!
With the addition of the plugin functionality, I’d certainly be interested to hear from other plugin authors who would like to work together.
If you’re bilingual with an urgent need to translate, I’d definitely love to hear from you, too! 
Job Manager is Released!
A plugin for WordPress I’ve been working on for the past month or so, I wanted to create a powerful job listing and application management system for WordPress. So, here it is! If you’re looking for a complete job/application system, I’d encourage you to download it and have a look!
You can read more about it on the plugin homepage, or download it from the WordPress plugin directory! If you happen to run into any bugs, please report them in my bug tracker.
WordPress Shouldn’t Use nofollow
In my random wandering across the internet today, I discovered that, by default, WordPress adds the rel="nofollow" attribute to links in comments. Now, we all know the original purpose of nofollow, to try and discourage comment spam. This isn’t really relevant to WordPress anymore, though. Akismet has been supported in WordPress for quite some time. Indeed, I noticed that 2.7 comes with it installed by default. I can attest to the quality of the Akismet plugin: out of thousands of spam comments, it has let exactly one through, and I’ve had one false positive.
To that end, I strongly recommend all WordPress users install Akismet, and the DoFollow plugin. All it does is disable the nofollow attribute on external links in the comments. With the help of Akismet, you can safely do this without providing assistance to spammers.
And to everyone who has contributed to my blog in the past, my apologies for giving you your proper due. That has now been remedied.
pento.net goes mobile!
With a bit of fiddling around, I’ve found a good combination of WordPress plugins for mobile support.
- For iPhone/iPod: WPtouch. Lots of options, looks good on the iPhone browser.
- For all other mobiles: WP-viewMobile. This one is particularly handy, because it gives you the option to define the user agent strings it should activate for. To make it play nicely with WPtouch, I just had to remove the iPhone and iPod entries.
For both of these, setting them up was as simple as turning them on. I also added the various search engine mobile crawlers to WP-viewMobile. At the moment, the list of user agent strings I have are: Googlebot-Mobile, Y!J-SRD/1.0, msnbot-mobile, MSMObot. If anyone knows any others, please let me know.
So now, if you desperately want to check my site from the road, you can read it a bit easier on your mobile screen.
Gary Pendergast, noun: Gamer and developer. MySQL, WordPress, web and music geek. Makes interesting things at Automattic. Can be observed in his natural habit at pento.net, or usually in Melbourne, Australia.
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