Stoat - Where?

(If you were expecting something on life in Japan here, sorry to bore you! Normal service will resume shortly, I promise).

A few days ago, I made a suggestion to the Wordpress Hackers lists to restructure WP’s feed handling into a class-based system. There has been a lot of discussion recently on the list of where to go with feeds, with people arguing both for a complete overhaul and for minor tweaks. There was also quite a debate on whether to drop support for some older feed types to reduce maintenance.
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Continuing the conversion of site components that’s been going on, I just finished up another new plugin for WordPress called Holler. It’s a contact form, one or two of which already exist, but is pretty flexible in what it allows you to do. I much prefer a contact form to having my email address publicly accessible, both because of the problems of spam and abstraction. If you decide to close an email account, your address is still all over the web for people to see and send to. If you use a contact form, you can silently change the address the form links to and nobody will know the difference. Many sites need more than one contact address, so they can different kinds of messages go to different people. Holler lets you specify multiple addresses and gives the user a choice of which address to send it to. You can customise the message strings that it gives back, as well as the way Holler presents it so that it can integrate nicely with your theme. The form elements are marked up so that you can apply CSS stylings as you wish.
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