Recently I made a set of plugins that will be shown off at Wordcamp Seattle. I have mostly finished them, they are real simple plugins, just to show that extra features can be made using the Wordpress API. Meant mostly to be demos, but I would love to get any feedback aboutt he plugins or bugs someone comes across if they test them.


The first plugin lets you change the title and tagline of your blog. Often times you have seen the default Just another Wordpress.com weblog. If you enter your Twitter username and click 'import from twitter' it will import a recent twitter status as your blog tagline. It will look for your most recent status that is not an @ reply and doesn't contain a link.



This plugin allows you to manage comments on your Wordpress blog from inside of Windows Live Writer. 'New' means that the comment has been posted but it is waiting for moderation. 'Approved' means the comment has been published and is visible to all users on your blog. 'Spam' are comments that have been detected as spam and are hidden from your blog. Clicking the words across the top will show you a list of comments in each of those sections.



The custom field plugin lets you add wordpress custom fields to your blog. This plugin shows up after you have clicked publish inside of Windows Live Writer. The first time you click publish once the plug in is installed it will ask you if you want to enable it. Click 'yes' when you see the dialog below.

Then the next dialog will show up. This will allow you to enter new custom fields for your blog. Enter the key/values for the custom field in the grid below. And when you are done you can close the dialog, it will save the custom fields to your blog. THe next time you come back to this dialog, there will be links on the top with the keys you have entered in the past. This way, if you always insert the same custom fields, you will only have to enter them the first time. When selected on a custom field, you can click the checkbox. This will generate a snippet of php code which you can use in your Wordpress theme to display the custom field.



Download the plugin and copy it to C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\plugins
Source code for the plugin for those interested


Please email me an feedback or bugs to bturnerATmicrosoftDOTcom