Crowd Favorite has had the opportunity to work with Answers.com this fall on AnswerLinks, a new WordPress plugin. Answerlinks talks to an API at Answers.com and auto-suggests links to definitions and more on Answers.com for terms in your blog post. Then you can choose to add the links you want; very simple and easy. After…
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Sara Smith interviewed me for a RandomBits Podcast. She asks some good questions, I hope my answers are interesting. The discussion includes a variety of things, including: WordPress Crowd Favorite ShareThis MyFreeBusy
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While Popularity Contest version 1.3b1 was perfectly compatible with WordPress 2.3, it wasn’t compatible with the Google Sitemaps plugin. This version should be compatible with both. Thanks to Arne for his help identifying the compatibility issue between the two plugins. I need to do a bit more to fix this more properly before it is…
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I’ve released a beta version of Popularity Contest – my WordPress plugin that helps you find out which of your posts are most popular. This version should be WordPress 2.3 compatible1, but I need help testing it. Popularity Contest was already largely compatible with WordPress 2.3, but the category reports on the reports page did…
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I have released an update to my Articles plugin for WordPress that makes it compatible with WordPress 2.3. This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives. You can see…
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Yes, I realize a lot of my plugins need some adjustment before they are WordPress 2.3 compatible. Unfortunately, I have a lot of plugins to update and it will take a little time to get through them all. I’ll update this post with the status of each one as I update them. 404 Notifier –…
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My Share This plugin for WordPress has proven to be very popular. It is being used on a number of high profile sites including Mashable.com, GigaOM, Web Worker Daily, AllThingsD.com and others. It’s a good example of a tool meeting a need. As you would expect, I wasn’t the only one trying to solve the…
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Here’s a little one-trick pony WordPress plugin. Delink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page. My comment policy is to allow only personal web site URLs from commenters.…
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All– I’m very sorry that Twitter Tools is not currently working. The breakage appears to be due to an issue on the Twitter side. Thank you kindly for your patience while things get straightened out. Your friend, –Alex King PS. Thank you to those of you went to the forums as requested, I’m sure you…
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I’ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well. It’s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice…
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I debugged a strange WordPress issue for a client today, one I hadn’t seen or heard of before, so I thought I’d document it. The symptoms: IE7 would try to download the wp-login.php page instead of loading it. Mobile devices (using my mobile plugin would complain that they could not view the site due to…
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There is currently an issue with Twitter Tools due to a change in the data format for the date being sent from Twitter. I expect the date format to be fixed on the Twitter end and Twitter Tools to begin working properly again soon. If Twitter decides to change the date format permanently, I’ll get…
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Note: This is the eleventh (and last) in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. When I first launched alexking.org back in 2002, I didn’t plan to make any money from it or do any advertising on it. I remember friends telling me I should put up ads when I was slashdotted…
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Note: This is the tenth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. I’ve covered a lot of the benefits to having your entire site in a single CMS earlier in this series, but let me quickly highlight them again here. Flexibility With the content completely separated from the presentation, you can…
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I’ve released version 1.0 of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that does a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Features include: Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes) Create a blog post from each of your tweets Create a daily digest post of your tweets Create a tweet on Twitter…