Category Archives: Plugin Releases

Release notes about my WordPress plugin releases

Adopted Cron debug log WordPress Plugin

Published Mar 27, 2012 | In Plugin Releases

Recently, I saw a post by Ron (of wpmututorials.com fame) that he is making a couple of his WordPress Plugins available for adoption, since he wanted to concentrate on other stuff in life.

I offered to adopt the Cron Debug Log Plugin because a couple of my own Plugins depend on cron and at times I need to debug if there are any issues with cron and this Plugin could be immensely helpful.

For those who don’t know, Cron Debug Log Plugin can used to debug remote calls made using Cron jobs in WordPress. It basically logs all unsuccessful wp_remote_post calls from Cron.

Ron was kind enough to accept my offer and gave me check-in access to the repo. Over the next few weeks, I am planning to make some modifications to the Plugin and add some features. If you want any specific feature in the Plugin, then do let me know and I will try my best to get it implemented.

Update

In addition to the above Plugin, I have also adopted the following Plugins.

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Updates to my WordPress Plugins

Published Sep 12, 2011 | In Plugin Releases

Over the past week, I have updated nearly half of my Plugins. I thought of consolidating all them in a single post instead of writing separate post for each of them.

If I have fixed a bug or added a new feature, I call them as mandatory updates. If I have just added new translations, the those updates are optional. But it is recommend that you always update irrespective of whether they are mandatory or optional updates.

You can update all these Plugins from your WordPress dashboard or by manually downloading them from their homepage.

Try these updates and let me know if you face any issues.

Mandatory Updates

Easy Retweet

Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which lets you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count.

I updated this Plugin to v2.7. I fixed a bug and added new feature, so it is a mandatory update

The following are the major changes

  • Enabled custom bit.ly pro domains (Thanks to Michelle McGinnis for the patches)
  • Added Bulgarian translations
  • Added Lithuanian translations

Github Ribbon

Github Ribbon is a WordPress Plugin, which can be used to add Github ribbons to your website. The github ribbons can be configured either for the entire site or on a post by post basic.

I updated this Plugin to v0.4

The following are the major changes

  • Added CSS style to hide ribbon on printed pages

Posts by tag

Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.

I have updated this Plugin to v1.8.

The following are the major changes

  • Added support for displaying content (Thanks to rjune for the patch)

Twitter Avatar Reloaded

Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter username and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.

I have updated the Plugin to to v1.0

The following are the major changes

  • Using transient api for storing cache
  • Also improve performance

Optional Updates

Geo mark

Geo Mark is a WordPress Plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s.

I have updated this Plugin to v0.7

The following are the major changes

  • Added Bulgarian translations
  • Added Lithuanian translations

Post to Friendfeed

Post to FriendFeed is a WordPress Plugin which will allow you to post excerpts from your blog posts as a message in FriendFeed with images. By default FriendFeed posts them without images and this Plugin overcomes this issue.

I have updated this Plugin to v1.0.2

The following are the major changes

  • Added Bulgarian translations

Tweetback Helper

Tweetbacks Helper is a helper Plugin for Tweetbacks Plugin to help it detect more tweets.

I have updated this Plugin to v0.4

The following are the major changes

  • Added Bulgarian translations
  • Added Lithuanian translations
  • Added German translations

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Embedding Github files in your WordPress posts

Published Aug 25, 2011 | In Plugin Releases

Recently while debugging the issue with my WordPress feed, I found out that the Plugin which I was using to display files from my Github Gist was highly unoptimized. As promised, I created a Plugin to do it properly.

While working on this new Plugin, I felt that it would be really nice to embed Github files as well in addition to embedding gist.

Gist-it

My search lead to a Google app engine based solution called Gist-it. I really liked it, but one problem with it was that it was not supporting embedding particular regions of the file. So during the Yahoo HackU last week, I hacked on it and added support for specifying line numbers.

I also updated my WordPress Plugin to support gist-it urls as well.

Download & Usage

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page. The Plugin’s home page also has detailed examples of different ways by which you can embed gist or Github files in your WordPress blog posts or pages.

Feedback

If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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Updated 4 WordPress Plugins

Published May 12, 2011 | In Plugin Releases

Over the past week, I have updated 4 of my WordPress Plugins and thought of consolidating all of them in a single post instead of creating multiple posts.

Posts By Tag

Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.

I updated this Plugin to v1.7. It fixed a bug so it’s a mandatory update.

The following are the main changes

  • Added support for displaying post dates
  • Fixed a bug which was corrupting the loop.

Twitter Avatar Reloaded

Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter username and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.

I updated this Plugin to v0.7. It is a mandatory update.

The following are the main changes

  • Added 4 template functions to display the comment authors Twitter id and profile url.

Bulk Delete

Bulk Delete is a WordPress Plugin which can be used to delete posts in bulk from selected categories or tags. This Plugin can also delete all drafts, post revisions or pages.

I updated this Plugin to v1.3. It is an optional update

The following are the main changes

  • Added German translations

Easy Retweet

Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which lets you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count.

I updated this Plugin to v2.4. It is an optional update

The following are the main changes

  • Added German translations

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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WordPress Plugin updates

Published Feb 7, 2011 | In Plugin Releases

Over the past two weeks, I have updated a couple of my WordPress Plugins. Most of them are optional updates, so I thought of consolidating all the changes here instead of creating separate posts for each of them.

Bulk Delete

Bulk Delete is a WordPress Plugin which can be used to delete posts in bulk from selected categories or tags.

I updated this Plugin to v1.2. It is a mandatory update.

The following were the major updates

  • Added support for deleting posts by custom taxonomies
  • Optimized the code which prevents the blank screen that you get when you have huge number of posts to delete on an under-powered server.
  • Added Dutch translations
  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translations

Easy Retweet

Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which lets you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count.

I updated this Plugin to v2.3. It is a mandatory update.

The following were the major changes

  • Fixed issue with permalink for official Twitter button
  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translations

Twitter Avatar Reloaded

Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter username and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.

I updated this Plugin to v0.6. It is an optional update.

The following were the major changes

  • Added Dutch translations
  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translations

Google Scribe

Google Scribe is a WordPress Plugin, which allows you to enable Google Scribe to WordPress comment input box.

I updated this Plugin to v0.4. It is an optional update

The following were the major changes

  • Added Dutch translations

Github Ribbon

Github Ribbon is a WordPress Plugin, which can be used to add Github ribbons to your website.

I updated this Plugin to v0.3. It is an optional update

The following were the major changes

  • Added Dutch translations

Bulk Move

Bulk Move is a WordPress Plugin which can be used to move posts from one category to another in bulk. This Plugin can also be used to remove assigned categories from posts.

I updated this Plugin to v0.4. It is an optional update

The following were the major changes

  • Generated translation files
  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translations

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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Bulk Delete Plugin now supports deleting posts by Custom taxonomy

Published Jan 24, 2011 | In Plugin Releases

I have updated my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which lets you to delete posts in bulk. The new update adds the support to delete posts by custom taxonomy, in addition to deleting posts by tag and category.

Like the previous updates, this feature was also requested by the users of the Plugin. So if you have any feedback or feature request, don’t hesitate to contact me, I will try to add them to the Plugin.

Screenshot

Delete WordPress posts by custom taxonomy

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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Easy Retweet Plugin now supports official Twitter button

Published Dec 1, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

I have added some updates to my Easy retweet WordPress Plugin and have released a new version

Official Twitter Button

In addition to supporting bit.ly retweet counts, Easy Retweet Plugin now supports the Official Twitter Button. You can choose either bit.ly button or the Twitter button.

Screenshot

easy-retweet-option

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s homepage.

Feedback

Please keep the feedback coming and if you want me to add any new features or find a bug, please leave a comment.

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Github Ribbon Plugin now supports CSS 3 Ribbons

Published Nov 8, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

After releasing my Github Ribbon WordPress Plugin, I found that Jeff Balogh created a pure CSS3 version of the ribbons without using any images.

I took his code and encapsulated it into my Plugin and added an option to choose between the old image type ribbons and the new CSS3 ribbons.

The new CSS3 ribbons are really cool and you can see them in action in my blog. The only caveat is that, they don’t work in IE (but who cares ;))

Download

This is an optional update. If you want to use the cool CSS3 ribbons, then you can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s homepage or update it using the Plugin installer.

Feedback

Please keep the feedback coming and if you want me to add any new features or find a bug, please leave a comment.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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Google Scribe Plugin now has an option to disable it

Published Sep 20, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

One of the main complaints I heard about my Google Scribe Plugin is that, certain users found it distracting and wanted a way to disable it.

In the first version of the Plugin, you have to manually disable it for every page load. Now, I have added an option in the comment form, so that end users who visit your site can disable it, if they want to.

This preference is stored in the user’s browser as a cookie and so next time when he tries to comment on any other page/post from your blog it will not be enabled till he enables it.

Download

This is an optional update. If you want the ability to disable it, then you can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s homepage or update it using the Plugin installer.

Feedback

Please keep the feedback coming and if you want me to add any new features or find a bug, please leave a comment.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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Twitter Avatar Reloaded Plugin now supports registered users

Published Sep 15, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

I have updated my Twitter Avatar Reloaded Plugin, which can be used to display user’s Twitter Avatar instead of Gravatar in comments.

New Features

The following are the new features that I have added to the Plugin

  • Support for registered users
  • Ability to specify the text of the Twitter field in the settings screen
  • Removed JavaScript from unnecessary pages which should improve performance.

Download

This is a mandatory update. You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s homepage or install it using the Plugin installer.

Feedback

Please keep the feedback coming and if you want me to add any new features or find a bug, please leave a comment.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

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