Clients often ask for fuzzy, non-standard, maybe weird and not always logical permalink structure for their sites. If you’re now working with such a client, consider yourself lucky, because the brand new Rewrite Rules Inspector plugin is here! Props to the WordPress.com VIP team :)
Jetpack 1.3 Released, now with Grunion Contact Forms
Jetpack 1.3 has been released, and it now ships with the Grunion Contact Forms plugin, the very same forms plugin that’s running (behind the scenes) on WordPress.com. The update fixes a couple of small bugs as well. You should be able to download it from your Dashboard very soon.
How to write a terrible WordPress tutorial
True, and here’s a related post I wrote earlier about Plugins vs. Without a Plugin. Still, we keep seeing such tutorials piling up everyday, even obvious ones like Google Analytics. Why would one want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting code into their theme’s header.php file, and then breaking everything when they change their theme or when the theme gets an update? Why...
Inbound Marketing Plugin for WordPress
The MIT license is compatible with the GPL
The MIT license is compatible with the GPL and can be used when submitting plugins to the WordPress.org directory. Thanks to Mark Jaquith for clearing that up.
How to: Disable Jetpack Subscriptions Notifications
It’s more difficult to keep this in mind, than it is to actually execute it. Sometimes we (content creators) want to publish content to see how it feeds to our Twitter or Facebook accounts, or to see how it turns up in the RSS feed, so what we usually do is publish a “test” post and delete it afterwards (together with the tweet and Facebook post.) However, sent e-mails cannot be...
All in One SEO Pack for WordPress Downloaded 10,000,000 Times!
An Actual Retweet Button for Jetpack & Sharedaddy
I was thinking about this for quite some time now — an actual retweet button for WordPress, and I wonder why Twitter hasn’t provided one yet, it’s so obvious! Yes, the tweet button is doing a great job these days, but let’s admit, that we content publishers enjoy retweets more than regular tweets to our articles, because: They show your name and your Twitter avatar along...
Using Jetpack for E-mail Subscriptions in WordPress
You can find a bunch of “subscribe to posts” plugins in the WordPress.org directory but from my personal experience, it’s very difficult to find something as good and reliable as Jetpack. The major difference is behind the scenes — when most post subscription plugins will use the wp_mail function to distribute your new post (using sendmail from your server or an SMTP...
Hey WordPress, How About a WP_Plugin Class?
Okay January is my month of ideas :) Let’s talk about plugins for a moment, shall we? Actions and filters are no secret to WordPress developers, right? Say, how many times do you type something like this in your plugins or theme files: class Some_Plugin { function __construct() { add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'admin_init' ) ); } function admin_init() { ...