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Fairly soon after upgrading to WordPress 2.0, I started work on a small plugin that would do something I’ve been wanting for some time: inserting a notice into feeds for posts that refer to changes in the site. After about half-an-hour or so of tweaking it, I’ve got it into a representable state, and since it’s fairly general, you can check it yourself:

“Add Feed Notice” 1.0.

To install, stick the contents of the above link - it’s syntax highlighted - in /wp-content/plugins/, enable it in the Plugins area in the admin panel, and you’re good to go. To actually mark a post as needing display of the notice, add a “custom field” with the key sitespec and the value YES.

For completeness, the notice reads like this: “(Note: This post is about, or refers to, other parts of the actual WEBLOG-NAME web site. It’s recommended that you read the post in context on the site.)” where the second sentence contains a link to the post directly.

We’re now on WordPress 2.0, codenamed Duke. If you wouldn’t know if I hadn’t told you, that’s a good thing.

On one occasion during an election campaign Churchill was speaking in a church hall in rural England. The hall was decorated in the well accepted colour scheme of that era – mission brown up to shoulder height, then cream up to and including the ceiling. When he finished his speech Churchill called for questions. The first came from a middle-aged woman dressed in country tweeds.

“Mr Churchill, I am a member of the Temperance League,” she said, “My local branch has been examining your use of alcohol. Are you aware Prime Minister that, during your lifetime to date you have consumed enough alcohol to fill this hall up to here” stretching her arm dramatically to indicate the mission brown zone on the wall. “We want to know what you intend to do about it?”

Churchill looked at the woman, followed her arm to the top of the mission brown zone, and then slowly allowed his gaze to move up through the cream zone to the ceiling. “So little time, so much to do” he said.

Happy new year.