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I finally pushed out some embarrassingly outdated WordPress plugin updates a few moments ago.

• Updated unAPI plugin with a patch contributed by Jay Luker that removes the hard-coded "wp_" table prefix. The updated version of the plugin has been tagged as 1.4.1.
• Updated LinkPURL plugin with a patch contributed by Mark Matienzo that enables partial redirects. I made some additional tweaks to the plugin to make this feature configurable via the WordPress management UI. This has been tagged as 1.1.
• Created a new unAPI plugin branch for Mark Matienzo's Scriblio-oriented tweaks. The branch is called 1.4.1-anarchivist-scriblio and it contains the scriblio.diff file. I have yet to integrate the diffs, as the file that was patched has changed since the patch was issued. If anyone is interested in working on unAPI/Scriblio integration, please get in touch with me.

And here is my to-do list which I hope will keep me honest.

• Update OAI-ORE plugin to support version 1.0 of the ORE specification.
• Add per-post (and per-page?) resource maps that wrap all embedded images and links.
• Enable "cool URIs" for all resource maps.

It is my hope that I'll get to those sometime before the summer begins. :)

Sam Ruby posted a while back on how to embed LINK tags in your blogs (or other web resources) in order to enable OpenID auto-discovery.

Here's a plug-in for WordPress that lets you accomplish this lickety-split.

Oh yeah: my OpenID is http://mjgiarlo.myopenid.com/. Envy my creativity!

I've posted a couple new tools during the past couple days. One is an update of Devon Smith's LinkPURL extension for Firefox 2.0.

The other is an ultra-lightweight Wordpress plugin that embeds a linkpurl link tag for auto-discovery (so bookmarking agents can detect and grab the persistent URL rather than the impersistent URL up in the addressbar).

Based on a discussion in #code4lib earlier today, I realize that there are a lot of important questions, not to mention serious doubts, about persistent identifiers. I flip-flop on their utility myself, so I found the discussion very useful. (Thanks, edsu!) Maybe I'll write a post or two about persistent identifiers to flesh my thoughts out.

I've finally gotten around to updating the unAPI plugin for WordPress so that it fits into the WordPress plugin architecture, making it simple to install and maintain. I'm calling it version 1.0 since it's the first substantial release of the plugin since I got involved. Just unzip that sucker (or check the code out) to wp-content/plugins/unapi and do the rest via the administration pages, including activation and identifier configuration.

I updated the plugin page and imported it into the svn repo hosted at wp-plugins.org.

This was my first WP plugin, so I would appreciate any feedback. All you folks that are using it should try stripping out the old version (which requires hacking some theme files) and plugging this in.

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