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So you’ve learned how to write your own extension. This tutorial will show you how to keep your users up to date with your latest version automatically.

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I finally figured out how to hack the categories to display in alphabetical order. The archives are untouched, so if for some reason you wanted to see them in chronological order, you can. If anyone else wanted to know how to do this, you modify the wp-includes/classes.php file. Go to line 462 (469 as of WP 1.5), and add in this:

// Alphabetical hack for categories
if ($whichcat)
    {
        $q['orderby'] = 'title';
        $q['order'] = 'ASC';
    }

Adds a “Sort” button on the extension manager to arrange your extensions alphabetically. There’s no permanent change to the order, as this had a possibility of corrupting the extension manager’s files.

Update: The new version is compatible with Firefox 1.5b1/1.5b2 *only*. It does not work for Firefox 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. There’s a significant change in the extension manager from the current stable to the next branch; I’m trying to fix it so it will be cross-compatibile, but for now, this will only work for Flock and Firefox 1.5b1 or higher.

If you still have Firefox 1.0.4, you can download a working version of this extension here.

Install Ext2Abc 0.4
(Size: 12kb Release Date: October 30th 2005)
Tested on Firefox 1.5b1 and Flock developer preview.

I’ve just (hopefully) fixed the BugMeNot timeout. Also fixed the xpi file recognition in the .htaccess file. I’m still adding a few extensions, and most of the hacks are back to the way they were. One thing that’s still annoying me is the alphabetical hack that worked in WordPress 1.2 won’t work here, so I’m looking for another way to list the extensions alphabetically without having to hack the sql database with incorrect post dates.