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Release notes about my WordPress plugin releases

Add Google Scribe to your WordPress blog

Published Sep 9, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

As you all know, Google recently released an interesting tool called Google Scribe, which offers suggestion as you type. You can enable it on any webpage by clicking a bookmarklet.

I wanted to add Google Scribe to the comment box in my blog and guess what; I created a WordPress Plugin to do that 😉

Features

The Plugin will activate Google Scribe on your WordPress blog post when the user clicks the comment textarea.

Screenshot

You can see it in action in my blog. All you have to do is to try to post a comment on any of my blog posts. Check out the below screenshot, If you are reading this post in a feed reader.

Google Scribe WordPress Plugin

Download

You can download the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

As usual try out the Plugin and do let me know if you have any feedback, queries or comments.

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WordPress Plugin to add Github ribbon

Published Sep 7, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

After releasing the latest version of RoloPress, we wanted to add Github ribbons to the RoloPress site, but I didn’t wanted to change the theme, which resulted in Github Ribbon WordPress Plugin. 🙂

Features

The following are some of the features of the Plugin

  • You can choose whether to show the ribbon on the right side or on the left side.
  • You can choose any one of the 6 different colours that are available.
  • Configuration can be set either globally or on a post by post basic.

Screenshot

You can see the Plugin in action in my blog. In case you are viewing this post in a feed reader, then this is how it looks on my blog.

github-ribbon-wordpress-plugin

This is how the configuration box looks in the Write page/post admin page

Github Ribbon WordPress Plugin

Download

You can download the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

As usual try out the Plugin and do let me know if you have any feedback, queries or comments.

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Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin now supports shortcodes

Published May 17, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

One of the most requested features for my Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin was the support for shortcodes. Finally I got some free time over the weekend and was able to implement it.

Shortcodes

In addition to supporting sidebar widgets and template tags, the Posts by Tag WordPress now also support shorcodes.

You can embed a list of posts from a set of tags by using the following shortcode anywhere in your post or page.

In addition to using the tags attribute, you can also use other attributes that are supported by the template tag. For the full list checkout the readme file or the Plugins homepage.

Ability to sort by title

In addition to the support for shortcodes, I have also added the ability to sort by post title in this release. You can choose to sort by title in the sidebar widget or specify in the $order_by param to the template tag or as an attribute to the shortcode.

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.

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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Ability to hide author name in Posts By Tag Plugin

Published Mar 18, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

Another day another update to one of my WordPress Plugins. 🙂

This time it is Posts By Tag Plugin. I have updated it to v0.6 and have added the ability to prevent the author name from getting displayed in the widget. Normally in single user blogs it doesn’t make much sense to display the author name (since all are going to be the same user).

In the new version, you have to ability to choose whether you want the author name to be displayed or not.

Screenshot

The following is the screenshot of the new widget admin area.

post-by-tags-wordpress-plugin

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.

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 now supports deleting private posts

Published Mar 17, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

Just now released an update to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which you can use to delete posts in bulk. This update adds support for deleting private posts.

All the private posts can be deleted in bulk in one go or they can be filtered based on categories or tags.

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

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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 or contact me.

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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Display Twitter profile image instead of Gravatar in WordPress comments

Published Mar 16, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

In the recent release of RoloPress I implemented Twitter avatar, which allows you to show the user’s Twitter profile image instead of Gravatar. I adapted it into a separate Plugin called Twitter Avatar Reloaded so that it can be used in normal WordPress installations too.

Features

When the Plugin is installed it automatically adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter username. You don’t need to edit the theme file at all. Isn’t that cool enough 😉

Screenshot

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Download

You can download the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

As usual try out the Plugin and do let me know if you have any feedback, queries or comments.

PS: BTW RoloPress 1.2 has been released with lot of new features. Don’t forget to check it out. 🙂

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Bulk Delete can now move posts to trash instead of deleting

Published Feb 27, 2010 | In Plugin Releases

It’s been quite some time since I released updates to my WordPress Plugins since I was quite busy recently with lot of stuff (including the android course). Anyways I found some free time today and was able to push some updates to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which was overdue for quite some time. 🙂

Support for trash

WordPress 2.9 introduced the concept of trash, which allows you to move posts to trash (like Recycle bin in Windows or Trash in Mac) instead of deleting them directly.

I have added support for trash to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin. Now you can choose whether you want to delete the posts directly or just move them to trash. The credit for this feature goes to David Wren, you contributed code for this functionality.

Batch Deletes

I have also enabled another option which will be quite handy when you want to delete tons of posts. The most popular complain I hear from users of my Plugin is that, the PHP script times out if there were more than 1000 posts.

One possible solution is to increase the timeout period in php.ini file. But changing php.ini values is quite difficult especially if you were on a shared host.

I have now added support for batch deletes which allows you to delete the posts in batches. Say suppose you have to delete 5000 posts, you can now delete them in 5 batches with 1000 in each batch instead of trying to delete all the 5000 posts in a single go which usually results in script timeout. Hope this helps most of the users. 🙂

Screenshot

Below is the screenshot of the updated admin screen of the Plugin.

bulk-delete-wordpress-plugin

Support for translation

I have also generated the pot file for the Plugin and is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.

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 or contact me.

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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Plugin to display WordCamp NYC Badge

Published Oct 19, 2009 | In Plugin Releases

I guess, I am getting addicted to writing WordPress Plugins. 🙂

I was looking at the WordCamp New York Badge page and thought it would be nice to have a Plugin to display the badge, so after 30 minutes or so, WordCamp NYC Badge WordPress Plugin was born.

You can see it in action in my sidebar. 🙂

PS: If you are wondering why I am interested in WordCamp NYC, then do wait for another 3 weeks 😉

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Log every email send through WordPress

Published Oct 8, 2009 | In Plugin Releases

As promised, I have created a new Plugin called Email Log which will log every email that is being sent through WordPress. This Plugin will be very useful, while debugging issues related to email and will also let you to find out whether any spammer is abusing your WordPress installation. This Plugin is also MU compatible and can be used in WordPress MU installations also.

Features

Viewing logged emails

The logged emails will be stored in a separate table and can be viewed from the admin interface. While viewing the logs, the emails can be filtered or sorted based on the date, to address, subject etc.

Deleting logged emails

In the admin interface, all the logged emails can be delete in bulk or can also be selectively deleted based on date, to address, subject.

Cleaning up db on uninstall

As recommended by Ozh, the Plugin has uninstall hook which will clean up the database when the Plugin is uninstalled.

Screenshots

The following screenshot shows how the logged emails will be displayed

view-wordpress-email-logs

This screenshot shows how the email logs could be filtered or sorted.

wordpress-email-log-filter-options

This one shows how the email logs could be deleted.

wordpress-email-log-delete-options

Download

You can download the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

As usual try out the Plugin and do let me know if you have any feedback, queries or comments.

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Ability to sort posts, in Posts By Tag Plugin

Published Sep 17, 2009 | In Plugin Releases

I recently updated my Posts By Tag Plugin, to v 0.4

New Features

The main new feature of this update is that, now you have the option to choose the order in which the posts should be displayed in the widget. The credit for this feature goes entirely to Michael, because he is the one who code it. He sent me the modified file and I have just checked it into the Plugin’s SVN and modified the Readme file. (Can anyone expect more 😉 ) Thanks Michael.

Screenshot

The following is the screenshot of the widgets page where now you have to option to choose whether the posts should be displayed in ascending or descending order by date.

posts-by-tag-settings

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.

Vote for the Plugin

If you have used this Plugin and like it, please vote it and help me win the WordPress Plugin competition.

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