This is a real quick one. I’ve started using the W3 Total Cache plugin a few days ago which I’m totally satisfied with. Unlike the WP Super Cache plugin, W3TC can keep the caches in memory via memcached, serve the static content through CDNs. The guys at W3 Edge promised to add Amazon CloudFront compatibility which I’m very excited about. As we all know (I guess) Mashable is...
Twitter Friendly Links: Now In Alphanumeric Mode
Hello my friends! Yes, I’m finally back from my two-week vacation. It was awesome, I spent a week in Magnitogorsk and another one in Sochi. The weather was great, it only rained on Sunday, when I was on my way back. Everything went fine, I’ve seen all my friends, we had a great time. Sochi is okay, getting ready for year 2014, though their airport in Adler still sucks big time...
New WordPress Plugin: The Foller.me Widget
Here’s a way for you to show what you’ve been tweeting about lately. Right on your blog, in the sidebar. No Twitter passwords required, cause this thing works via the Foller.me API. This is the first ever app (widget, gadget, or whatever you wanna call that) based on our Foller.me API, so I hope we have a great start here, and you young developers out there, dig through this...
Multiple Sites Driven By One WordPress Installation
This is early experimental. And, I’ve also marked this post into the “personal” category, because you wouldn’t want your clients to have too much access, especially if they share a single WordPress installation. Now I know there’s the WordPress MU project, but I guess I can’t use it in this case, because WordPress MU assumes your URLs will be within the same...
New WordPress Plugin: Twitter Followers Widgets
Hey, there’s a new widget that can display user pics of people you follow (and people who follow you) on Twitter. It updates whenever you gain a new follower. That’s a new widget for WordPress I wrote a few days ago, and received aproval from the WordPress.org plugin directory today, so it’s the official launch. Go get yours right over here: Twitter Followers Widgets and...
Thickbox and jQuery in WordPress 2.8
The update was great! The new features in WordPress 2.8 are awesome! Most of my Twitter friends have updated to 2.8 and haven’t had a single issue. The new widgets area is so cool! Oh jeez, I’m so excited. For a full features list check out Version 2.8 section in the Codex. Anyway, the only issue I had so far is the Thickbox usage. I’m not sure why it’s lost, but...
Foller.me is Ready to Launch. We're going LIVE!
Good news everyone! We’re totally ready to launch! Everything is going as planned right now and we’re having a very busy weekend, but the launch date was announced and there’s nothing we can do to stop ;) Might I start with a little press release? You can post this wherever you want, blogs, forums, chats, … newspapers, TV, radio ;) but please, schedule that for Monday (1st...
Linux Dummy: Unscheduled Maintenance
If anyone of you have tried to access the blog yesterday night, you might have noticed that nothing was working. Sorry! I’ll say it straight, it’s completely my fault. Yesterday evening I decided to set up a cron job for automatic backups on my VPS – a full MySQL dump and a compressed archive of the www directory. So I got a couple of error messages stating that I don’t...
URL Shorteners and the Linkrot Apocalypse
First of all I’d like to thank you all for your support on the Twitter Friendly Links plugin for WordPress. It started out as a fairly simple URL shortener tool. Now it’s got loads of new options and some compatibility fixes. Keep the suggestions coming :) Today I came across a bunch of articles about link relations, the way Google and other search engines treat them, and the way a...
Compatibility: Twitter Tools & Twitter Friendly Links
Due to many requests for twitter friendly links in the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King I’ve decided to take a look. Alex King surely did a great job in his plugin by leaving a filter which I could use in my plugin without touching the sources of Twitter Tools. The toughest thing was to find this great wordpress function called url_to_postid() which takes a wordpress URL and tries to...