While working on my plugin, Tango Smileys Extended, I found that my traditional method of programming was not working out very well. I had grown accustomed to having full control over web based content by authoring completely by hand — using a generic text editor (previously Notepad, but more recently EmEditor) — which was becoming very tedious and time consuming. The most time consuming part was having to debug because of a typo or a missing semicolon or curly bracket. The most tedious part was looking through WordPress source trying to find which parameters are passed to a function and what is returned. I was on the lookout for a new editor which could at least help save time and avoid the simple bugs of missing punctuation or mistyped function and variable names. As it turns out, I already had one, except I had never installed it!

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I need to find a better tool for writing plugins – or any PHP for that matter, because a small typo in a key name broke the comment CTI for the previous version.

I don’t know how I missed it when I was testing!

Anyway, version 2.5.6.1 fixes the issue that was created in 2.5.6.0, so users should update to the newest version as soon as possible. I’m sorry to anyone who had an issue with the previous version.

You can get Tango Smileys Extended 2.5.6.1 here, and get more information here.

In continuing my improvements of TSE, I present version 2.5.6.0.

TSE can be disabled on Posts and/or Pages, the CTI interface is only loaded on pages that can use it (saves tons of memory), and other enhancements have been added to increase performance.

You can get Tango Smileys Extended 2.5.6.0 here, and get more information here.