WP Themes and Microsummary plugin
After a few more bug reports, I updated my WP-Microsummaries plugin again.
This time, I removed all fancy rewrite stuff, which didn’t play well with some custom rewrite rules. That should be fixed now.
Also, I tested the plugin with the upcoming WordPress v. 2.1 (alpha 3). And it appears to work just fine.
Finally, there were reports about missing wp_head() calls in some WordPress templates. That is a problem, because wp_head is a so called hook that is needed for plugins to insert stuff into the html head section of the blog pages.
I tested all of the top 10 most popular themes from themes.wordpress.net and some more. Ans indeed, theme #6, Japanese Cherry Blossom 1.0 appears to be broken in more than one way: both the wp_head hook and the closing html head tag are missing.
Fixing this is easy; open header.php and find the opening <body> tag. On the line above, insert the following code:
<?php wp_head(); ?> </head>
So if you have installed the WP-Microsummaries plugin and it is not working, this problem may be the cause. Please let the theme author know, it is an easy fix!
Update: Just after writing this blog, I find out that the wp_head() function call is optional, although authors are encouraged to use it.
Otto 02:32 on November 9, 2006 Permalink
Nice. I was going to do this after I noticed this in FF 2.0, but you did it for me. 🙂
Tip: In the plugin, if you change “get_settings(‘home’)” to “$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]”, then you’ll find it will also work for categories, pages, archives, even single posts. So if somebody bookmarks a category, they will see only the latest in that category.
However, the plugin will currently only work with “pretty” permalinks. You may want to consider supporting those people with normal permalinks as well.