I also cleaned up a few custom plugins that I’ve used on ClioWeb and various other sites. These two plugins, CW Author Base and CW Page Categories, do some simple stuff, but they’ve been handy to me, so I’m sharing them here in hopes that they’re useful to someone else.

• CW Author Base—This is a really simple plugin that lets you change the base for author URLs in WordPress. You can already do this for categories and tags in WordPress under the Settings tab, but not author URLs. I think this should be part of the core, but its not. So, if you wanna change the author URL base, save this file as a .php
• CW Page Categories—Another very simple plugin that lets you add categories to a page. It includes a template function called cw_listcategories() that you can use in the sidebar to list pages under a category heading. You can also return an array of pages with cw_getpagesbycat($cat) and replace $cat with the category ID.

As always, if you have suggestions for improvement, or add you own code to these plugins, please share!

Even though I had taken a digital history documentary class a few years ago, it still surprised me how much work creating a podcast involved. Like Dave, though, I’m pretty happy with what we came up with, despite getting a little rushed. Dave did a lot of work at the end, so most of the credit for the success of the first show should go to him. Thanks, Dave.

Our plan is to roll out a new THATPodcast show once a month. In February our show will cover Omeka, the free, open source platform for managing collections and exhibits now in development at the Center for History and New Media. We’re going to time episode two with the public release of Omeka, so be sure to check back next month!