Ok, time to release another plugin for WordPress. This time I wanted to easily implement del.icio.us bookmarks into blog posts without having to use a server-side component and add to the already slow loading of this blog. The solution was to use JavaScript and load the bookmark data only when you request it. This means that my blog post does not show a lot of links and thus become suspicious to search engines and it also means that I don’t create lots and lots of trackbacks to other blogs (I hate following a trackback just to find another “my links for the day” post).

Anyways get the dynamic delicious plugin for WordPress, install it and start showing links in your posts without messing up the social web.

The plugin allows you to use a special syntax for del.icio.us links, which is the following:

[ delicious:Link Text,user,amount of links,tag]

For example:

[ delicious:My Links on JavaScript,codepo8,10,JavaScript] becomes

[delicious:My Links on JavaScript,codepo8,10,JavaScript]

The tag is optional, so you can also use:

[ delicious:My Latest Links,codepo8,10] becomes:

[delicious:My Latest Links,codepo8,10]

The plugin is licensed Creative Commons Share-Alike. Enjoy.

Finally I can announce the 2.3.0 release of the Yahoo! User Interface Library. Internally we had a chance to play with some of the library news already and there is a lot of cool stuff to see:

• An experimental image loader utility that is much like my http overhead delay on steroids
• A rich text editor for those who don’t like markdown markup or textile
• A colour picker
• A loader utility to embed the YUI on the fly from a hosted environment
• A testing framework to automatically test your apps.

It is also cool to see that a lot of minor bugs and improvements found and reported by the team in the UK have been implemented by the YUI folks. Most of these are way under the hood, like a long overdue insertAfter method and next and previous sibling methods that don’t report linebreaks.