This is an explanation of a solution to a specific problem with one of my plugins, but the issue is larger and should be understood by all WordPress plugin developers. Posting the write-up here with the hope it will be useful. The issue is a change in the activity happening in the save_post hook. I’d…
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I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release has a couple of bug fixes (from version 1.5b1) and a couple of new features: fixed a logical bug that made the “exclude replies”…
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There’s a new version of ShareThis out this evening. This release fixes a bug in version 2.2 where the ShareThis button might not be visible correctly if your WordPress theme shows post excerpts on certain pages. ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or…
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There’s a new and improved Lijit WordPress plugin available for download. This version is one that my company, Crowd Favorite, had the pleasure of helping build. The new plugin makes it easy for you to enable Lijit search from the default WordPress search box, or you can add in the full Lijit widget wijit if…
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WordCamp Utah is coming! September 27th is the date – registration is open. I’m quite looking forward to this (particularly since I wasn’t able to make WordCamp SF this weekend), both as a speaker and as an attendee. I’ll probably be flying in Friday mid-day and out on Sunday. Big thanks to Joseph Scott for…
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I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to test. This version has a number of changes, including one that has been very frequently requested: Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts Updates to match Twitter…
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A few months back we launched a site redesign/redevelopment project for a client, and made a simple mistake that had some interesting ramifications. It’s worth posting here so others don’t make the same mistake. What Happened When redeveloping the site, we moved the WordPress instance from the web root: /public_html/wp-config.php /public_html/wp-includes/ /public_html/… to a subdirectory…
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PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with PhoneFactor enabled, you receive a phone call asking you to press # to authorize. When you do so, you are logged in.…
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I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough – not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my…
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This is a really simple WordPress plugin that only does one thing: disable the tag auto-complete feature in WordPress 2.5. The tag auto-complete feature is very nice, and I personally like it quite a bit. However, some of our clients have thousands of tags and were experiencing unacceptable slowdowns with this feature enabled. If you…
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I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready (I think) for testing. This version adds a number of often requested features and other enhancements: Show a link to the tweet being replied to for @replies. Option to exclude @replies from the sidebar tweets list. Make all @usernames clickable. Check that the tweets downloaded are…
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I’ve updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. I’ve made a couple of changes: Since many people don’t RTFM, I’ve added some code that (hopefully) only tries to show the mobile theme if everything is installed correctly. If it’s not installed correctly, it will show an error message accordingly in WP 2.5+. Experimental: a link to…
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I’ve updated my Shortcut Macros plugin to make it WordPress 2.5 compatible. This plugin allows you to set up shortcuts that expand into longer text when you save a post/page. For example, if you link to my site often, you might create a macro of ak. You type ##ak into a post/page and when you…
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I’ve updated Delink Comment Author to make it compatible with WordPress 2.5. It should also still be compatible with versions prior to 2.5. This plugin gives you the ability to remove the link a commenter left as their URL without removing the entire comment. A link to do this is added to your new comment…
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I’ve updated my Comment License plugin to make it look nicer in WordPress 2.5. This plugin shows a license with terms of your choosing in your comments form. You can edit the terms of your license in the options page. You can see it in use on my site wherever there are comment forms. The…