Tag Archives: WordPress
Published
Jul 24, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
I am getting lot of positive feedback for my Easy Retweet WordPress Plugin and I am really very happy about it. It is really a great feeling to know that the code you wrote is liked by other people.
New Features
Getting back to the Plugin, I have added two more options to it so that you can have fine grain control over how the button it is displayed in your posts. They are
- You can now customize the text that is displayed in button. This will be particularly useful if you are running a non English WordPress blog.
- You can now choose whether you want the button to appear in the home page or not.
Screenshot
The following is the screenshot of the admin UI with the new features.
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.
PS: BTW today my blog has got the highest number of visits per day in its entire history of existence for the past 5 years and more than 50% of the traffic was to the Easy Retweet Plugin. 🙂
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Tagged Easy Retweet, Plugin, WordPress
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Published
Jul 22, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
I have added two more new features to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin.
- Ability to bulk delete pending posts
- Ability to bulk delete scheduled (future) posts
Screenshot
This is the screenshot of the admin UI with the new features.
Download
You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.
What’s Next
The next feature which I am going to add to the Plugin is the ability to translate the Plugin in multiple languages. I am working on creating the .pot file so that others can translate the Plugin, by generating .po files.
Like the previous update, both these features were 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.
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Tagged Bulk Delete, Plugin, WordPress
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Published
Jul 20, 2009
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In WordPress
Just a quick note guys, WordPress 2.8.2 has been released a couple of hours back.
It fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URL was not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin console.
Since it is a security update, it is highly recommended that you update as soon as possible. Even if you have not updated to 2.8.1, it is highly recommended that you update to WordPress 2.8.2
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Tagged WordPress
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Published
Jul 17, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
I have decided to retire my Simple Reverse Comments Plugin. It is no longer needed on WordPress version greater than 2.7
In earlier versions of WordPress, the ability to reverse the comment order was not available and therefore I created this Plugin, but now the ability to reverse comments has been integrated into WordPress core (version 2.7 and up) itself and therefore removing the need for this Plugin.
In WordPress 2.7 and above, you can reverse the order of comments by enabling it in the discussions tab under settings menu.
Like my No Happy Browse Plugin, this Plugin will also reside in my Plugin’s section and also in the official WordPress Plugin repository and will be available for users who are still struck with earlier version of WordPress.
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Tagged Plugin, Retiring, Reverse Comments, WordPress
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Published
Jul 13, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
I have decided to retire my No Browse Happy Plugin. It is no longer needed on WordPress version greater than 2.5
In earlier version of WordPress (2.5 and earlier), it used to display the Browse Happy logo in the footer of admin pages, if you login using IE. There were lot of discussion about it in the wp-hackers list and I created the Plugin in an effort to stop the argument.
But now (in WordPress versions greater than 2.5), the logo is no longer displayed and therefore the Plugin is not needed.
The Plugin will however reside in my Plugin’s section and also in the official Plugin repository for users who are still struck in WordPress 2.5 or less. (But I highly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version)
RIP
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Tagged Browse Happy, Plugin, Retiring, WordPress
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Published
Jul 13, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
One of the most requested features of my Bulk Delete Plugin is the ability to select posts based on date. For example, posts which are more than 30 days old or posts which were posted within the last 10 days etc.
I have added this feature to Bulk Delete and as of version 0.4 you can also restrict posts by date. You can download the latest version of the Plugin from my Plugin’s page.
To restrict posts which were posted within the last xx days, select “posted within last” from drop down and enter number of the days. Similarly to select posts which are older than xx days, select “older than” from drop down and enter the number of days.
Try it out and let me know how it works. Also let me know if you have any feedback regarding this feature or about the Plugin.
I am also planning to add this feature to my Bulk Move WordPress Plugin. So stay tuned. 🙂
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Tagged Bulk Delete, Plugin, WordPress
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Published
Jul 13, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
One of the recent trends in the blogsphere is to display the retweet or “tweet this” button on your pages together with the number of times they were retweeted. There are lots of ways and services to do it and each of them have their own pros and cons.
Recently John Resig released a pure JavaScript solution for adding retweet buttons to your pages. It uses Bit.ly JavaScript API, has no dependencies and is totally unobtrusive.
Like my previous Geo Mark WordPress Plugin, I converted his excellent JavaScript solution into a WordPress Plugin called Easy Retweet, so that it can be used in WordPress without making many changes to the theme.
Plugin Usage
You can download the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page. There are two ways you can add the retweet button, the automatic way and the manual way.
Automatic way
Install the Plugin and choose the type and position of the button from the Plugin’s settings page.
Manual way
If you want more control over the way the button should be positioned, then you can manually call the button using the following code.
if (function_exists('easy_retweet_button')) {
echo easy_retweet_button();
}
Feedback
Try out the Plugin and let me know your thoughts. The Plugin is still in the early stages of development and I will add more features based on the feedback.
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Tagged Bit.ly, Easy Retweet, John Resig, Plugin, WordPress
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Published
Jul 11, 2009
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In WordPress
WordPress 2.8.1 had been released today. It is the bug fix version of WordPress 2.8 which was released last month.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes a couple of security and performance related bugs. You can see the complete list of bugs that were fixed in the official announcement blog post.
Even though the bugs that were fixed affect only a small subset of blogs, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest version. So if you maintain, WordPress blogs, then it’s time to click the upgrade button. 🙂
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Tagged WordPress
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Published
Jul 7, 2009
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In Plugin Releases
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)
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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Tagged Geo, Geo Mark, Microformat, Plugin, WordPress, YQL
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Published
Jun 24, 2009
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In WordPress
One of the most missed features in the official WordPress Plugin repository is the ability to specify the change log for your Plugins. There was no unified way for the Plugin developers to specify the changes that were made to the Plugin in each version.
Thanks to some great work done by Peter Westwood and Mdawaffe, we now have support for changelogs in the WordPress Plugin Readme standard. The information specified in the changelog will be displayed in a separate tab in the WordPress extend pages like shown in the below screenshot from WTC.
Since it has become as part of the readme file standard, I have added support for changelogs to my WordPress Plugin readme generator which I have released sometime ago. Now you can create readme files for your Plugins with changelogs using the WordPress Plugin readme generator. Try it out and let me know if you face any issues or have any suggestions.
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Tagged Plugin, Readme, WordPress, wp-readme
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Retiring my Simple Reverse Comments Plugin
Published Jul 17, 2009 | In Plugin Releases
I have decided to retire my Simple Reverse Comments Plugin. It is no longer needed on WordPress version greater than 2.7
In earlier versions of WordPress, the ability to reverse the comment order was not available and therefore I created this Plugin, but now the ability to reverse comments has been integrated into WordPress core (version 2.7 and up) itself and therefore removing the need for this Plugin.
In WordPress 2.7 and above, you can reverse the order of comments by enabling it in the discussions tab under settings menu.
Like my No Happy Browse Plugin, this Plugin will also reside in my Plugin’s section and also in the official WordPress Plugin repository and will be available for users who are still struck with earlier version of WordPress.
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