I've written a widget for WordPress. Zomg!1 I know.

It lists latest updated pages and is currently in beta (because my WP widget skillz suckz0r). If you would like to help test it, comment here or email me. :)

I'm in the mood for customising and expanding my WP installation. I went through yesterday and updated all my plugins, then this morning played around with the template tags. Still some minor things to fix, but all in all I'm fairly happy with how it's turned out so far.

So, I've decided I want more WP plugins. I did consider the threaded comments plugin but for some reason it confuses me so much and I can't even begin to implement it. Anyway, ideas? So far I have:

• Akismet (Why do I always want to spell that with an N, as in Akisment? Duuuuh)
• Bad Behaviour
• Auto-Close Comments
• Exec-PHP
• Impostercide
• Quote Comment
• Search and Replace
• Subscribe to Comments

Suggestions please? *Begs*

So, I took the plunge and installed PHP and MySQL on my computer so I don't have to upload all my pages every time I want to change something. I found a nice little package called xampp which has absolutely everything I need in it. I was going to install Apache, PHP and MySQL separately, but it was just my luck that Apache.org was down at the time. >.<

In other highly interesting news, I'm finally getting round to updating my question and answer script, PHPAskIt. Does anyone have any suggestions of improvements/features that need adding or even things that need removing? So far I have no ideas other than redoing the layout and general look of the thing. Oh, and I will make categories optional, as well as the option to update them from the admin panel instead of the itty-bitty list thing in the config file.

I still haven't got any ideas for layouts. Ranee suggested I make a Christmassy (if that's not a word then it is now) type one, which I have to say I'm rather tempted by. However, what to do and how to do it is still something that bothers me. Bleh.

By the way, my Wordpress comment notification emails are suddenly working again. Whaaat? I changed nothing. I didn't upgrade WP, I didn't change my mail settings, I didn't do anything. Weird.

Speaking of weird mail servers... xampp comes with a local mail server for receiving SMTP requests and such. Now, at first I thought the reason I wasn't getting the mail was because I had the wrong configuration options and/or coding. Wrong: it's actually Norton AntiVirus blocking it because of some error thing. I disabled email scanning, both incoming and outgoing, and even disabled NAV completely - nothing doing, it's still scanning my SMTP port and blocking anything I send out that isn't through Outlook Express. Grrr. I swear, Symantec are in league with Microsoft, trying to make people stick to their products and in turn insuring high income for both parties. Windows is full of "virus holes" and things, and NAV seems unwilling to do anything that's not to do with IE or Outlook/Outlook Express. *Grumble*

Edit: Ra. I caved and installed the Gravatar plugin. Wootiness.