McAleavy.org

I’ve just been somewhat surprised to see Domain Mirror at position 586 on a list of the top 1000 most downloaded WordPress plugins. This has reminded me that I have a new version that allows different post categories to be shown on each site. If anyone is interested in testing it give me a shout.

I’ve also been looking at updating the ancient version that’s posted in the WordPress Plugin Directory, but because of the way the repository packages things I would need to rename it so that it will automatically install into the correct directory. There would also be issues with the config.inc.php file being overwritten during updates unless I can figure out how to detect it’s presence from within the plugin.

Both of these issues are likely to cause breakage with the first auto-update, so if you’re using the plugin let me know and I’ll make sure you have an updated version before I update the repository. That way I can avoid breaking mirrors all over the place.

I’ve just uploaded a beta of WordPress Domain Mirror that supports theme switching, and a few other minor features an bug fixes.

Click the link above to go to the download page.

Earlier in the year I went looking for a domain name that was a little easier to spell than McAleavy.org and bought LightPainting.org with the intention of using it as an alternative domain for this site. Initially I set up a redirect from the new domain to the old one, but decided that it would be better if the site changed it’s name based on where it was accessed from – so I set up both domains to point to this site directly. Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t handle this very well as the site name and URLs are part of the site’s configuration. As I couldn’t find an existing plugin to fix this problem, I wrote one. Click the link above to go to the download page.