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I’ve just about cracked the back of a new version of the Javascript in Posts plugin, which will account for a lot of the issues people have experienced with more complex scripts.

For example, on my test WP install, I can have code like this:

<script>
alert(”ok2″);
alert(”ok3″);
document.write (”<BR>This is being done in javascript”);
display();

function display() {
document.write(”<br>And so is this”);
}

</script>

And everything works fine!

The only thing not working is code like:

<script src=”test.js”></script>

So once I’ve cracked that, I’ll pass it out to everyone to take a look.

I’m progressing well with the “SENuke alternative” software, with the result that there are a couple of features you might like:

- The browser remains invisible, and becomes visible if there’s something it can’t process normally. So you can carry on working with “real” work whilst it does it’s thing in the background.

- Get this: even the CAPTCHAs can be processed whilst the browser is invisible. Neat, eh?

- It’s got built in debugging that should (if your proxy and router allow it), let me debug “live” whilst you run the software on your PC, so I can more easily find out what’s happening if you encounter problems.

- It’ll have plugin functionality similar to WordPress. So if some clever programmer wants to write an interface to post bookmarks to (as an example) Delicious.com before I’ve had a chance to write one, they can take my template plugin, modify it, and make it available to download for users of my software.

- It’s actually two softwares in one: A web-based app to do all the stuff that it possibly can without you even having to have your PC on, be in the country, or even be awake. And a desktop app to do the CAPTCHA-specific stuff (and maybe a few other things in future, we’ll see how that goes). Both will have the plugin functionality.

- Virtually everything will be done via plugins (which will be free to users if I write them). So for example, the CAPTCHA breaking is done by one specific third-party service at the moment. If they close down, put their prices up to much, start performing badly, or otherwise cause me to look at other providers, I can fairly quickly write a plugin to work with another provider (if they support software integration, of course).

I must say, I’m enjoying this work!

If you’ve recently changed your blog’s theme, you might find that somehow you can’t add widgets to the new theme.

That’s because WordPress sometimes gets confused over which themes are using which widgets.

Widgets Reset can fix your issue for you.

Jason, the creator of the Caffeinated Content plugin, is offering a 30% discount on the plugin, for 1 week (starting yesterday) or 250 copies, whichever comes first. The coupon code is MAYFLOWERS, so if you’ve not got it, here’s where to go

I was reading a post by Robert Plank recently about your product funnel, and it’s been playing at the back of my mind a bit.

And today, I had a brainstorm!

I had a list of my forthcoming products/projects in front of me, and I realised that many of them (I think it’s 15) could all share one common database – a list of your domains.

Each product then hangs off that list of domains (plus associated data such as expiry date, host, registrar, and so on), so that you have ONE list of domains that is shared across Caffeinated Content Scheduler, the Cpanel Backup script, and the other 13 yet-to-be-named products.

And I’m quite excited by this. For my own use as well as for a product range to market.

So that’s my plan for this year, if I can get it to all hang together! One central application (which will be free), and 15 others which are effectively very powerful plugins to that script.

Watch this space for more info!