I just uploaded Nusuni Technorati Links 1.1. It no longer requires an API Key (apparently Technorati doesn’t even check if that is in the request), and it has an option to set a blog URL (so if you blog is installed at /blog/ but you want to see the links for /). Version 1.1 also completely replaces Google Blog Search with Technorati’s links.

You can visit the plugin page here.

If you want to keep track of updates to this plugin, just subscribe to this feed.

Well, the first beta version of the Htaccess Generator is out. I think it has most of the features I am planning on adding for now, but there are still some bugs fixes and interface improvements that need to be done.

In this version I have added a really nice Image Hotlinking Protection feature, which will let you either display a image to hotlinkers or send a 403 (access denied) message. It also lets you either allow or deny access to the specified domains.

Just a few notes: if you are a blogger or offer any type of RSS feed I highly recommend leaving the default “deny access” option. If you only allow access from certain domains your RSS readers may not be able to view your images in their readers. But by using deny access you can block hotlinkers (you can find out who is hotlinking to you by using a script like Thiefinder)

If you like the htaccess generator, please share it, Stumble it, Digg it, etc. Spread it around, you know you want to.

If you want to stay up to date with the generator but don’t much care for my blog posts, I have created a RSS feed for the updates. You can subscribe to it here.

I just updated Thiefinder and it will now stop executing if the requested image doesn’t exist. Before it would send the 404 error and continue exectuing (which would result in PHP errors).

All I did was change this (starting on line 84):

if(!file_exists($doc_root . "/$request")) {
	header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}

To this:

if(!file_exists($doc_root . "/$request")) {
	header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
	return;
}

The new version of the Nusuni Dot Com Htaccess Generator includes several bug fixes (including one big one with the WordPress permalink section), and a help guide.

If you find any bugs with it, please contact me and let me know.

Well, I’ve finally joined the large cult of WordPress plugin development and am officially announcing my first plugin - Nusuni Technorati Links.

Ever since the release of WordPress 2.3, many people have been complaining about the developers’ decision to switch to Google Blog search for the “incoming links” section on the blog Dashboard. So, last night at around midnight I decided to add Technorati’s incoming links back on the Dashboard.

Despite the fact it is my first plugin and I only spent an hour learning the plugin API, it seems to work perfectly.

You can download the plugin here.

Update: It is fixed up and works fine now. Sorry about the craziness earlier, I found one major bug and got rid of the buggy code and replaced it with something different, then found out what my bug was and put the now-fixed buggy code back in. It works fine now though.