That’s right, seconds! The twitter @Anywhere was introduced at SXSW conference and launched the dev tools a couple of days ago. It’s a simple javascript-driven set of tools that allows you to basically integrate Twitter functionality anywhere on your websites. Usage is as simple as loading a javascript file and launching a couple of js commands, which instantly give you the power of...
jQuery Cycle: Pager and pagerAnchorBuilder
One very awesome and useful plugin for jQuery is jQuery Cycle, which pretty much works out of the box, but browsing through the second part of the Intermediate Demos we’ve seen a click transition called Pager, which is somewhat tricky. Pager is nothing but a few links next to your cycling block with page numbers, which switch the cycle upon click. It’s very useful when you have to...
Behold! Technical Support for WordPress
I got a response from the WordPress Plugin Directory today. Positive! They approved the new plugin’s home so I officialy let the plugin go public this morning. Of course I set up a page on my blog with the complete description, screenshots, feedback section (feature requests are welcome). Check it out – Technical Support for WordPress! Thank you for your support and voting at...
Plugin Development: Technical Support for WordPress
So, you’re a freelancer and you make WordPress powered websites for your clients, cool. Now how many times have you experienced them calling, emailing, texting, tweeting you asking for a core upgrade, plugin upgrade, theme fix or whatever? Well I’ve been experiencing that quite a lot, and that’s a reason to charge an extra monthly fee for support. And with this plugin …...
WordPress: Extending the Contact Form 7 Plugin
There are tonnes of good plugins for displaying contact forms on your WordPress blog, even a simple comment form without displaying the comments would do just fine, but let’s speak about one called Contact Form 7 written by Takayuki Miyoshi. I don’t think there’s a reason behind the number 7, perhaps it meant the year 2007, when Takayuki published the first version of his plugin...
WordPress 2.9: From a Developer's Point of View
Yup, WordPress 2.9 is finally out and I’ve seen a lot of people upgrade immediately – sweet thing to do, I did so too and hadn’t had any problems here (I’m not using too much plugins), then I switched over to the 3.0 branch, all good! The semi-square buttons in the admin interface are fixed by the way ;) Anyways, this post is not about my blog, but about something...
Every Millisecond Counts: Page Speed for Firebug
Here’s a little video that we’ve seen at Arvind’s and Sreeram’s presentation about speeding up the web at the Google Developer Day 2009 conference in Moscow. Inspiring isn’t it? Arvind and Sreeram talked about a very nice plugin for Firefox (built upon Firebug) which is called Page Speed, developed and maintained by the Googlers. You may read more about the plugin on...
Adding mod_rewrite Rules to .htaccess in WordPress
This is all about the Twitter Friendly Links plugin I’ve been working on lately. You might have noticed some 404 issues in the comments section on the plugin page, this in most cases is due to caching fail. I wrote about this a while ago when I was working on W3 Total Cache compatibility where all I had to do is set the wp_query object’s is_404 variable to false. Then again, the other...
A List of Awesome WordPress Blogs to Follow
Whether you’re a WordPress expert, beginner or simply a blogger running WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress or any others, here’s a little list of WordPress blogs that you should definitely follow (not mentioning the WordPress Development Blog and Matt Mullenweg’s Blog, and maybe #wordpress on Twitter, I assume you’re following them since your first ever WordPress...
While Everyone's Been Waiting for WordPress 2.9
I’ve been using it! Okay, so I’m not going to talk about all the great stuff coming up in 2.9, all the bugs they’ve fixed, all the features they’ve added, no. I’d just like to tell you about my experience running a step ahead of everybody else. When WordPress has made the switch from 2.7 to 2.8 I’ve decided to risk it and take the 2.9 path. I’m not sure...