I'm in the process of writing an event viewer (similar to the one in bluetrait) plugin for Wordpress.


Should be out sometime next month.




EDIT: An alpha version can be downloaded from here

Argh. Too much spam is getting through again; even with Akismet. So I'm in the process of writing a new spam class. The aim is to build a comment score (similar to email spam filtering programs) based on the following:

• Email Address/Name/Website


• Comment Body (number of links etc)


• If the user is registered


• If the user has successfully posted a comment before


• white and black lists


• response from akismet


• how old and how many comments a post has

So hopefully I can cut down the spam.

I suspect trying to have both a blog called Bluetrait and a piece of blog software called Bluetrait is a bad idea...

Things I'd like to add:

• gettext


• better plugin support (add_task, update checker, bluetrait version checking)


• categories


• upgrades to event management


• upgrades to spam system


• full UTF-8


• per-user time zone support


• caching


• faster/smaller

Sorry I broke the server for a bit while upgrading to PHP 5.2. It is all working now. :)


Nup it is still a bit broken. *goes to fix*.

Bluetrait 0.4.9 is now out. This version provides some bug fixes over BETA 1 (Think of it as BETA 1 Release 2).


The following have been fixed from BETA 1:

• If upgrading from an old version, the version number in the database is not changed with the upgrade. An error message is triggered saying that the upgrade failed.


• Upgrade will not detect version 0.4.7 as a valid upgrade path.


• You are not be able to log in if the site is install in http://localhost/. You require a fully qualified domain name

The full change log can be seen here.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.

We're now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!

So yeah I thought I should give it a try, here. I don't plan on moving to it, but I will see how it runs (and hey, it's free bandwidth!).

EDIT: I've also got an invite, if anyone is interested.

I haven't had the chance to work on the code for this site for a while, been pretty busy with uni. Anyway I have a week off (some Faculty of IT thing, not uni wide) which is cool. I did a touch up on some code tonight. I'm now running version 0.3.9 of my code. 0.3.8 added the following:

• Trackback support


• Newer version of FCKeditor (which still sucks a bit)


• Small fixes to work on unix systems


• Some backend support for PostgreSQL (although this will take sometime to complete)


• Some other general fixes

I'd like to release something at version 0.4.0 but we'll see. If I release it at that version it probably still isn't ready for general use. But I'll get there slowly.

If I were to use wordpress, I'd use this.

Much faster.

Wordpress 1.5 has been released and can be downloaded here