Stop SOPA Ribbon for your WordPress site or network. A plugin I made in a few minutes to show my support. It works with Multisite if you need a ribbon throughout the whole network. Learn more about SOPA on the Stop American Censorship website or read the Help Stop SOPA/PIPA in the WordPress news section.
About the "Lock in Effect" in WordPress Themes and Plugins
The WordPress themes and plugins market is huge these days. With all that wide range of products available, we sometimes stumble into situations where we’d like to change our mind, i.e. use a different plugin or theme instead of the one we’re currently using. Eventually we figure out that it’s incredibly tough to replace some of the themes and plugins, because as soon as...
Plugins vs. "… Without a Plugin"
Posted this yesterday on Twitter, thanks for all the retweet and fave love! I started seeing quite a lot of tweets and posts on how to do things “without a plugin” in WordPress and 99% of them involve writing snippets in your theme’s functions.php file. Now, how does that differ from writing a plugin? It’s more difficult to manage and maintain. If something stops working...
Announcing the Twitter Embed Plugin for WordPress
Hey there! I just released a brand new WordPress plugin called Twitter Embed. It supports several ways of embedding tweets into your WordPress posts and pages. The new (new-new) Twitter interface has introduced a new link on tweets called “Embed this Tweet” which allows embedding through HTML code, shortcode or link. This plugin implements all of those ways. It will even reverse an...
Varnish and WordPress Comment Cookies
I wrote before that I’ve been running some experiments with Varnish lately. Not that I have huge traffic here but I’ve always used my own website to test things out. As I wrote earlier, the problem with WordPress and Varnish is that WordPress relies on cookies which create cache misses on Varnish and in that previous post I shared a snippet on how to strip all incoming and outgoing...
New Plugin: Posts Screen Excerpt
New Plugin: Posts Screen Excerpt — makes an excerpt column available in the All Posts screen in WordPress. Useful for when working with posts without titles, where (no title) doesn’t say much about which post you’re about to edit.
Moving Plugin Support to Github
Got tired of dealing with “support” comments and bug reports on my blog, so now I’m opening Github repositories for some of my WordPress plugins. The first two are Twitter Friendly Links and Technical Support. Eagerly waiting for the first pull request now ;)
Unreplied Comments in WordPress
Dealing with comments. What a mess! I’ve been quite busy lately so I hadn’t had too much time to reply to each and every comment on my blog, but I’d really love too, seriously! The problem however is that there were times when I replied to somebody, and times when I hadn’t and now with this mess in my comments admin it’s impossible to find out ones I haven’t...
Using Google's URL Shortener (goo.gl) in WordPress
The Google URL Shortener API has been released this week so I came up with a short snippet that generates short goo.gl URLs. The script is quite simple, you can paste it in your theme’s functions.php file or create a plugin out of it, so without further ado: function googl_shortlink($url, $post_id) { global $post; if (!$post_id && $post) $post_id = $post->ID; if ($post...
Introducing Retweet Anywhere for WordPress
Hey, guess what! I’ve just released a new WordPress plugin called Retweet Anywhere. It’s something I’ve been working on a few days, inspired by the previoulsy used Sociable and Tweetmeme plugins, allowing visitors to tweet my posts. What I didn’t like about those two is that Sociable simply redirects to twitter.com with a preset status, and Tweetmeme is not customizable...