When we built the backup system we need for our clients at Crowd Favorite, we did so with some additional ideas in mind. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve extended it so that you can use it with your clients too: introducing our white label program. The white label program is very simple. We provide…
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I’ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release addresses two bugs: The use of the native json_decode() function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP.…
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Version 2.1 of my Twitter Tools plugin is now available. Twitter Tools creates a two-way integration between your Twitter account and your WordPress blog. You can send your blog posts to Twitter and bring your tweets back to your blog for display, archiving, or creating posts from them. This version has a bunch of changes…
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Based on the feedback from my previous post, I think I know what the issue may be between Twitter Tools 2.0 and WordPress 2.9. I have a new version available that may address the issue that some people were having saving posts with Twitter Tools enabled in WordPress 2.9. I believe the cause of this…
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We’ve launched an affiliate program and a public knowledge base at WordPress HelpCenter (WPHC), two things that I’m very excited about. We’re getting closer and closer to my overall vision for the service. Affiliate Program The affiliate program is really core to how we want the HelpCenter to work (note: anyone can join the affiliate…
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The WordPress HelpCenter is hiring another web developer. Due to the nature of the work we do at the HelpCenter, we’re looking for someone with a broad range of PHP, XHTML and CSS experience and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. This will be a full time position with benefits, and we are open…
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Crowd Favorite is hiring a full time QA Engineer/Jr. Developer. This is a new position at Crowd Favorite, and we’re looking for a sharp self-starter with great communication and organization skills to work with us. Responsibilities will focus on creating QA plans and managing the QA process for our projects, and will also include work…
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I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available. Download it here This release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing…
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I’m very pleased to announce that Twitter Tools 2.0 is now available! Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates a complete, two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Version 2.0 of Twitter Tools makes the plugin extensible in the same way WordPress itself is. I’ve added hooks and filters that allow…
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MailChimp has released a great new WordPress plugin: Analytics360°. This plugin creates a reporting dashboard for your MailChimp and Google Analytics right within your WordPress admin interface. Take a look at the post about the plugin on MailChimp’s blog, which includes a very cool video. It’s pretty slick, and useful – though I may be…
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Here’s a nice little one-trick pony WordPress plugin: Drafts Dropdown. It literally just adds quick access to your drafts via a dropdown area. Click… and… There you have it. A small convenience to be sure, but a convenience nonetheless. Of note to other plugin developers, the code I created to place the tab and drawer…
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We’ve released new versions of our Carrington themes: Carrington Blog – version 2.1 Carrington Text – version 1.2 Carrington JAM (Just Add Markup) – version 1.2 Carrington Blog and Text are designed to be ready-to-use themes for any bloggers, while Carrington JAM is our theme skeleton for designers and developers to build on. These are…
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A new beta of my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress is available – this has some minor bug fixes and some new features and nicer handling of some edge cases. Since this version is the best known version, I have made it the default download at WordPress.org’s plugin hosting. Changes since beta 1: Added tag…
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A new release of WordPress Mobile Edition, a WordPress plugin to provide a friendly mobile interface for your WordPress powered site, is now available. The new version of WordPress Mobile Edition is really a developer release. This version adds API access so that other plugins can participate in mobile device checking and add to the…
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My Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress has been “broken”1 for more than a year (since the WordPress 2.5 release I believe). Luckily, the great WordPress community found and posted work-arounds and most people had working versions while updating the plugin sat on my to-do list. The main issue with updating it was that I felt…