Some folks are having trouble with my Link Harvest plugin not harvesting all their links. Since it works fine on all my test machines, I’ve added some logging to a special version to hopefully discover why it isn’t working for them. To use this special debugging version you need to follow these steps: Install the…
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Link Harvest is a WordPress plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to. You can see it in action on my Links page I created this to help me better leverage my content as part of my recent…
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Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the big reasons I wanted to put all of the alexking.org content into WordPress was because I’d found that I’d begun putting almost everything into the blog rather than other areas of the site. It wasn’t a…
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve engaged in an e-mail interview with Thord Daniel Hedengren of Bloggertalks. That interview has been posted on Bloggertalks. Thord asked some good questions, I hope my responses are interesting. 🙂 This post is part of the project: Share Icon. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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Category Overload provides an alternate administrative interface for managing categories in WordPress. This was developed for Dave Powers’ New Music Nation web site, who had over 1200 (nested) categories and the volume of categories was causing pages to fail to load, server lock-ups, etc. When managing categories in your WordPress admin interface, Category Overload shows…
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The WordPress category system does a great job for most people, however if you have over 1200 categories like Dave Powers’ New Music Nation web site, the standard admin screens for WordPress categories just aren’t going to cut it for you. Dave got in touch with me and explained the problems he was having. They…
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I’ve released yet another WordPress plugin – this one is called Shortcut Macros. This is a real one-trick pony, all it does is auto-expand shortcuts you create to the longer text you have specified for the shortcut. For example, if you link to my site often, you might create a macro of ##ak which would…
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Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. I want my site to work the way I want it to. Sometimes this matches the way WordPress works right out of the box, sometime it doesn’t – that is where my plugins come in. I’m using over 20…
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I’ve updated my Share This plugin to version 1.4. This includes a number of minor changes since the last release: New method of including Prototype for WP 2.0.x users (can be used by other plugins as well) to avoid including Prototype twice, if possible. This technique is also used in my new WP Grins release.…
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WP Grins isn’t a plugin I use myself, so it’s been languishing a bit. I took a couple of hours this morning and updated it. There are a couple of changes, all good ones I think: It is now a “pure plugin” – it no longer requires any modifications of core or theme files. It…
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I’ve updated my WP Unformatted plugin to be compatible with WordPress 2.1 (and also updated the README to the new format). Thanks to DF for letting me know about the incompatibility. The download is available on my WordPress Plugins page. If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support…
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I’m getting lots of folks asking me if my plugins are compatible with WordPress 2.1. I’ve been using WordPress 2.1 on this site since November 2006, and I use most of my own plugins. If you try something and it doesn’t work with WordPress 2.1, you can let me know directly or open a thread…
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Somewhere along the way, it seems that WordPress started requiring a space or line break after a smiley key in order for the key to be properly replaced with the smiley image. For example: 😆 , said the hyena. instead of: :lol:, said the hyena. The first has a space after the “: l o…
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Crossing the line between favors and actually doing paid contract work for a friend can be tough decision. Once money and deliverables get involved, it can definitely introduce new issues and points of contention to your friendship. Before you agree to do the work, you better be darn sure you can deliver. 🙂 Steve O’Grady…
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I’ve set up the README files for my WordPress plugins so they are formatted nicely now instead of the plain text representation that was there before. For the curious, before and after. In addition, the README links for each plugin on the plugins page will now show the README for the latest official release, even…