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Updates to my WordPress Plugins

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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Geo Mark WordPress Posts

Chris Heilmann recently released a greasemonkey script to Geo locate WordPress posts. The script uses the recently released Yahoo Placemaker API together with YQL. I was really impressed by the simplicity and power of YQL. I enhanced the script and ported it into a WordPress Plugin named Geo Mark, which can be used in any browser.

Geo Mark WordPress Plugin

Geo Mark will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s. Once the Geo location is located, it will add this information as custom fields to the post. The information stored in the custom field can be displayed anywhere in the post using the build in get_post_meta() function. The Plugin also exposes template functions which can be used to generate GEO Microformats based on the location information found in the post.

Geo enabled RSS feeds

The Geo Mark Plugin also lets you to expose the location based information in RSS feeds. The Geo information stored in the custom field can be used to create Geo tags in the RSS feed. The Plugin supports the following Geo RSS formats as shown in the screenshot.

  • Simple (georss:point)
  • GML (gml:pos)
  • W3C (geo:lat)

Geo Mark WordPress Plugin Settings page

Why Geo marking posts is important

Adding Geo information to posts has lot of benefits. It enables data mining for location and also enables you to display information about the post on a map.

If you are still not convinced then checkout the posts by Chris.

PS: By the way, as recommended by Ozh I am going to submit this Plugin for the WordPress Plugin Competition. You can vote for this Plugin at the WordPress Plugin Competition blog.

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