Category: Web Development
New WordPress Plugin – YouTube Embed
Finally, my new WordPress plugin is released. YouTube Embed does a simple job – it displays a YouTube video directly in your posts and pages. Now, there are lots of similar plugins available but they’re either over engineered or, in some case, under engineered with missing features and no updates for years. Indeed, frustrated with [...]
Displaying WordPress short codes
I’m in the process of writing some instructions for a new plugin – one which uses WordPress short codes. They’re the useful codes that you put in square brackets and are replaced by something else. The problem is then documenting, because your plugin then wants to convert your text to the appropriate output. Thankfully, my [...]
WordPress 2.9.1 released
Every time WordPress updates, I dig around for the changed files (rather than update the entire installation), so I thought it would only be fair to share it. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities [...]
Simple Social Bookmarks – WordPress plugin updated
Simple Social Bookmarks has also been updated. The main change was to remove the short URL caching, as this is now included within the Simple URL Shortener plugin. An additional parameter has been added to allow you to turn off caching, if you require. Full details are on the official plugin page .
WordPress 2.9 and my pages!
I updated to WordPress 2.9 yesterday. All appeared fine. That is, until I went to update a page today and found the Edit button didn’t work any more. Neither was the URL shortening for the page. And then I noticed that all the comments were missing. It appeared that the URL for the page was [...]
Simple Twitter Data – WordPress plugin updated
The Simple Twitter Data plugin is relatively new, but I’m already releasing version 1.2. That’s progress! This version includes a new data type of “image73″, which will return a 73 pixel version of a Twitter users profile picture, and a way of embedding Twitter data directly into your posts and pages. As always, details are [...]
Plugin Support
The WordPress plugins I produce are, as with most, free. And I’m happy to answer any questions and provide whatever support I can. I don’t think many people wouldn’t expect any more than that. None-the-less, I regularly receive requests for assistance that are bizarre, time wasting and sometimes just rude. Two people have asked for [...]
Simple Twitter Link – Plugin updated!
The Simple Twitter Link plugin has been updated. First, and foremost, you can now pass various options to the URL shortening options. Secondly, a workaround is in place for a reported, known error .
Plugin error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”
Today I’ve had reported to me that one of my plugins ( Simple Twitter Link – but I’m sure this equally occur in others) is generating the error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”. In fact, it generates it about 200 times. The problem? Well, it’s a bug in version 4 of PHP , so there’s not much I can do about it (sorry!). It’s fixed [...]
Simple URL Shortener – new version released!
Yes, the testing is complete and the new version of Simple URL Shortener is available. The final tally is 87 new services, 1 removed, giving a grand total of 111. There are some other changes too, including extra parameters to allow the passing of API keys, username and passwords to the shortening services.
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