I’ve finally segrated the code for a Web directory from the Chameleon WordPress theme and created it into a WordPress plugin. The code is now working in my computer. It uses the internal link tables that WordPress uses for its bookmarks functions instead of creating my own tables. I’m currently testing it and hopefully put it into production on one of my web sites on the Internet.

Over the following days, my goal is to test and clean up the code so that it would be easy for people to put up a web directory on their own blog without to much of a hassle and also keep it working by using available core functions in WordPress instead of re-inventing things. Once I’ve stabilized the initial version, I’ll make it available on my projects page for people to download and use.

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I’ve now added a Code Stuff project page on the site where I will post the coding projects for download. I’ve initially put an updated Kih is_mobile WordPress plugin that you can download. I tested the plugin over the weekend using WordPress 2.7.1 to make sure it’s working. You can download the Kih is_mobile plugin from the project page.

I’ll be adding some more WordPress plugins to the Projects and a couple of WordPress themes that I have created. You can subscribe to the Code Stuff feed if you want to get updated.

You can find some of the coding projects that I am sharing on this page. Most of the code stuff are on Wordpress plugins and themes using PHP. Check out the list below. You can subscribe to Code Stuff for updates and changes to this list.

WordPress Plugins

• Kih is_mobile a WordPress plugin for detecting mobile devices. You can use the plugin’s provided is_mobile() function to detect a mobile browser inside your web site template. For example, you can check if the visitor to your web site is using a mobile phone and if so load a different stylesheet. Go to the Kih is_mobile project page to find out more information.
• Kih WordPress Auto Correct a WordPress plugin for automatically correcting the spelling of WordPress. WordPress should be spelled with a capital “W” and a capital “P”. Go to the Kih WordPress Auto Correct project page to find out more information.
• Kih Web Directory is a WordPress plugin that you can use to add a web directory on your blog with as simple and no frills as possible. Just use your existing WordPress bookmarks and easily convert them to a web directory by just creating a page and inserting a shortcode.

WordPress Themes

• Simplicio WordPress Theme (coming soon) – A simple WordPress theme based on the world famous Kubrick theme with a little twist. I’ve made the header shorter plus placed an “RSS Subscribe link” with the header.
• Shapeshifter WordPress theme (under heavy development) – A WordPress theme that is customizable. It allows users to make use of  the default look and feel. But it also allows WordPress site developers like me to make changes more easily by having a base set of features that are re-usable. More on this later.

Sites that use the Shapeshifter WordPress theme

• Connected Phone – a WordPress blog about mobile phones. Focuses on the current trend of mobile phones becoming more and more like computers that fit in our pockets.
• JavaMidlet – A site that provides information about mobile Java software applications and games that run on a wind variety of mobile phones like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Android, Blackberry, Samsung, LG, HTC …
• Code Stuff – and of course my very own developer site.