Reading Joost de Valk’s quick post about Simple WordPress Debugging with a query variable made me think for a while. Really, how often do you come across a white screen with no clue of what’s happening? Very effective indeed, and good note about the security issue, but anyways, what came into my mind is a life-saver for all WordPress themes and plugins developers. I came accross this...
Lead Generation Forms with WordPress and SugarCRM
It took me quite some time to get around this, but I finally managed to get it working. As you might have heard, SugarCRM has a Community Edition, which is open source and free of charge. It’s a very neat tool to play with and it’s functionality will suit most SMEs and maybe some corporations. I started playing with Sugar a few months ago, mostly with the modules functionality. Cannot...
WordPress Snippet: List Authors/Contributors
We were playing around with Brian (@bkmacdaddy) today on a WordPress blog with a few over 50 authors, then bumped into an issue where we had to output a list of all contributors. It’s quite easy at first sight, and functions such as wp_list_authors are quite good at it, but not good enough. The main issue was that the authors had to be paged and sorted by their names. Moreover, each entry...
Twitter Followers Count Snippet for WordPress
Here’s a short snippet to grab and display your twitter followers count in WordPress. You can use this anywhere, sidebar, posts, header, footer. We’ll be firing an anonymous call to the Twitter API for a user profile. This method does not require authentication, unless you’re trying to view a protected profile. To make this slightly easier I’ve used the JSON functions...
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...
Setup Twitter @Anywhere for WordPress in Seconds!
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...
Custom XML-RPC Methods in WordPress
With more and more talk around WordPress 3.0 it seems that the system is gaining even more popularity than ever before due to it’s extensibility. Today I’d like to discuss a topic that might not be of much use to bloggers and basic websites, but is generally required in larger projects – XML-RPC. It’s not limited to WordPress 3.0, but as custom post types are on their way...
Extending Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
In a previous article about Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 I outlined one of the most exciting features coming up in 3.0 and I noticed that people have already started building websites upon these new features. It’s not a secret that I’m working on a project myself which involves 3.0 so just like everybody else, I can’t wait to see it being released!
Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
I know it’s too early to speak about WordPress 3.0, but I’ve been playing around with some of it’s enhancements the other week, and.. Well, this is a miracle, really. Remember all those plugins promising custom post types in versions prior to 3.0. Those that never get updated and show themselves glitchy sometimes, especially during upgrades? Well the time has come.
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...