Last year, there was a thing called SOPA and a thing called PIPA and these things were bad and basically said that the way you do the things you do on the internet need to change dramatically. They were both written by a bunch of guys who have no real idea of how the internet… Continue reading Cat Signal
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Brian posted a link to Cat Signal on Post Status. It may not be the same thing (yet) as being Dugg but it’s still pretty cool. I still need to write up a post on how and why I wrote the plugin…
Cat Signal: An advocacy plugin for the Internet Defense League : Post Status.
Notifications, 2
Oh man. I’m stoked about this plugin. Part of the reason I’m so excited about it is because there’s no notification plugin in the WordPress.org repository called “Notifications”. Whaaat? Seriously? No one claimed that? It’s for reals, yo. The closest the repo has is WP Notifications. Now why would someone name a plugin WP Notifications… Continue reading Notifications, 2
Notifications
How many times have you wanted to display a sitewide notification on your site? I’ve needed it a lot on a variety of sites, and the plugins I’ve found in the repository left much to be desired. I decided to create my own, which is still in development, that I plan on uploading to WordPress.org.… Continue reading Notifications
The agony and the ecstasy of Automattic’s Jetpack
In a discussion on Twitter with the Internet’s @SiobhanPMcKeown (if you don’t know who Siobhan is, you don’t read many WordPress blogs) & @Krogsgard about WordPress themes with lots of options, I mentioned that I’ve been thinking about ways to justify removing options from Museum Core in favor of using plugins to accomplish those same things. Case… Continue reading The agony and the ecstasy of Automattic’s Jetpack
The about.me WordPress widget in the wild
Well, it’s a good thing I prettied up my site recently. Because I started using the About.me widget shortly after they launched it, I got featured on their blog.
Building plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes: to be, or not to be?
There’s been a lot of talk in the WordPress world about whether or not theme developers should build plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes. After my presentation at WordCamp SLC 2012, it was actually something I was asked about. Seeing how it was a topic of discussion on wpmail.me via ManageWP, I thought I’d throw my 2… Continue reading Building plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes: to be, or not to be?
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How to upload a plugin from the WordPress dashboard [VIDEO]
The second video in our screencast series, this shows you how to upload a plugin from a zip file with the WordPress Add New Plugin installer.
Free WordPress Plugin: Hello Ziggy
so, you use WordPress. and maybe you’ve turned on Hello Dolly. but if you’re me (chances are, you’re not me, but we’ll pretend for the sake of argument that you’re enough like me to continue reading this statement and past this ridiculous parenthetical tangent), you don’t have Hello Dolly turned on because it’s obnoxious. (no offense to… Continue reading Free WordPress Plugin: Hello Ziggy