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Working with PHP can be a bowel-churning experience; It is one of the most rubbish computer languages ever devised, because it encourages virtually every bad habit a developer could adopt. Its only saving grace is almost ubiquitous integration with Apache server, however there are plenty of other languages with similar levels of popularity.

Re-visiting PHP, I cannot believe that I ever found pleasure in making a living from coding this language. Were it not for the fact that Wordpress is a 100% PHP application I would never, ever go near it again. PHP, thy names are woe and misery.

Despite the aforementioned reservations, I have struggled against my profound fear of PHP to partially re-factor Marc Nozell’s ‘Yet Another Daily Delicious‘ plugin. In it’s original form, the plugin is capable of incorporating links added during the current day to a Wordpress blog.

I have added the following features:

• Tear support - you can limit the number of items that appear on the wordpress home-page. This means that if you go a bit crazy with adding your links, you can ensure that it does not ruin your layout.
• Deferred Publishing - You can make your daily links start off in a non-published state.
• Clickable Keywords - Takes you through to the correct tag page.
• Tidied-Up Layout - Arguably my version is slightly neater than Mark’s original.

My own code can be found on my Subversion, and is released under the same license as Mark’s original software in the hope that it will be of use to the blogging public. Enjoy and please feel free to publish patches against my subversion offering.