Tag: Plugin
How not to write a WordPress plugin
With a number of plugins under my belt, I’ve collected a number of theories on what you shouldn’t do. All of them are relevant, if light-hearted. Don’t allow your plugin to rely on third party code If you do and it doesn’t work (or doesn’t work as the users want) then you’ll be crucified. No [...]
Simple Feed List gets a major re-write
I wrote Simple Feed List some time ago I recognised that although widgets existed to display RSS feeds, they pretty much just did this and were generally widget-bound. Simple Feed List, initially, did all its own decoding of the XML that exists in an RSS feed. However, issues over the translation of “foreign” characters lead me to the [...]
Simple Social Bookmarks and Artiss Code Embed WordPress Plugins updated
Simple Social Bookmarks , now named Artiss Social Bookmarks, has had an update today. I’ve had a big list of pending changes – many smaller ones and a few large ones. This release resolves the smaller ones in one go, allowing me to concentrate the next release on those few, but very large, changes. In comparison, Artiss Code Embed has had [...]
Artiss Social Share WordPress plugin released
Two of my plugins – Artiss Facebook Link and Simple Twitter Link – have been merged to create Artiss Social Share . Further features have also been added, along with the ability to create Google+ sharing links as well. Due to the demise of Google Buzz my other plugin, Simple Buzz Link, has been removed.
A Further Deleted WordPress Plugin
I mentioned the other day, after deleting a number of plugins , that I would soon also be deleting WP Plugin Cache from WordPress.org. That’s now happened. WP Plugin Cache was written to provide caching facilities to other plugins. At the time I wasn’t aware that WordPress had its own caching facility that plugins could use and only got around [...]
Deleted WordPress Plugins
Today I reviewed my developed plugins and made the decision to remove some. I’ve detailed which ones they were below. As to why I deleted them, as a general rule of thumb they had low popularity, were in desperate need of updating but I simply couldn’t justify doing so. In the meantime I have to [...]
Site changes – all my personal posts have gone!
A number of years ago now this site started off as my personal blog. Politics, news and general rants were the topics, with the occasional review of tech products that I’d bought. In time the latter started to take over and my new-found interest in writing WordPress plugins. As a result the site has become [...]
WordPress plugin review of 2011
2011 has been a hectic year for me and my WordPress plugins. I’ve learnt an awful lot – especially thanks to the excellent book Professional WordPress Plugin Development . As a result I’ve been re-visiting a lot of my plugins and vastly improving their code quality and capabilities. I’ve also got rid of my first plugin . Plugins that have been given a fresh lick [...]
How to drive traffic to your blog with Artiss Draft List
I’ve just launched version 2 of my Artiss Draft List plugin for WordPress and if you’ve not tried it, it’s really worth a punt. In a nutshell, it lists on your blog any posts (and/or pages) that you have in draft. This can provide an ideal, and unique, way to promote posts before they are [...]
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Why WordPress needs to do more to help their development community
WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform – I love both using it and developing for it. However, with regard to the latter I find it a struggle to promote the work I do. Any WordPress plugins that I develop are free, GPL licensed and I provide free support via the WordPress.org site or, preferably, here [...]
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