Tag: Wordpress
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 [...]
Diary of a WordPress plugin development
Most people don’t realise that running this site and developing WordPress plugins is not a full time job for me. Therefore I have to find the time during lunchtimes and snatching time in the evenings. However, this week I’m off and have decided to tackle a big upgrade to my most popular WordPress plugin – [...]
Display your site’s current PageRank
If you have a need to add your site’s current PageRank to a page or post (for example, you may have a page for the media/PR on which you may wish to highlight it), the following piece of code, added to your theme’s functions.php file, will achieve just that. All you have to add in [...]
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 [...]
How to suppress Skimlinks for some content in WordPress
Skimlinks is a great way to moneterise a blog. Once signed up and approved you simple need to add a line of JavaScript to your site and it will add moneterised links to your output. However, you may be adding sponsored posts or your own links and may not want Skimlinks to modify the entire, or [...]
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 [...]
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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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