Note: This is the sixth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. Once you get a few years worth of content (posts and comments) in your blog, you’ve likely got some pretty good and interesting content in there. Over the last 2 years, I’ve been working on creating new ways to…
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I’ve put up a new release of Share This, which has a few pretty good changes/bug fixes: Clicking the Share This link will hide the form if it is open. Don’t show the Share This link in the feeds. Titles with apostrophes work properly. Don’t show the Share This link in the mobile interface (if…
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Patrick kindly took the time to let me know about an issue with my Share This plugin for WordPress: apostrophes/single-quotes in post titles break things. The thing is, the string looks fine in the source. The title: This title’s got an apostrophe is turned into: This+title%27s+got+an+apostrophe just as I’d intended. What I didn’t realize was…
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I’ve updated some of the link blog functionality on this site, changing the icon and standardizing1 the “#” internal link and “visit site” external link at the bottom of each item: What do you think, is it an improvement? Shows the same on the web site and in the RSS feed. [back]
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When I moved a bunch of URLs around for my new site, I knew I’d probably miss a couple of redirects and serve up 404s (file not found) for things I shouldn’t. I created a little plugin to help me with this. 404 Notifier keeps a log of 404 (file not found) hits on your…
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Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. The obvious change made with URLs on alexking.org was the conversion from the old template system: /index.php?content=software/wordpress/content.php to nice clean page URLs: /projects/wordpress Since I only had 25 or so pages that used these old URLs, I’ve got the…
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I’ve released an update to my well-received Share This plugin. Version 1.1 has a couple of small changes: Fixed a typo that caused the Blinklist URL to be incorrect. Fixed a double = in the Furl URL. Abstracted the strings for easy translation. Changed the mechanism for creating the URLs so that it is compatible…
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Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. 1024×768 was a pretty good sized monitor resolution, and was probably the standard for laptops, back in 2002. As such, I designed the previous version of this site to fit in an 800×600 screen – or common resolution minus…
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I’ve gotten several e-mails about this one, so I’m putting it out there for discussion… Does the “Share This” link need a standard icon to be more recognizable? And is there a generic “social bookmark” icon that has gained any sort of traction we could use? I don’t think I’ve seen one – so it…
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Thomas Herold asks about my Share This Plugin: The prototype.js is about 56k in size. My concern is that this slows down the loading time of my site. Any comments about this? Yep, comments I’ve got because this was a carefully considered decision. First, let’s look at the ways this isn’t as big a deal…
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Share This is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to share a post from your site with others via social bookmarks or by e-mail. My old site had an “E-mail this post” link on every post, and I got a number of requests for it as a plugin. Share This includes this functionality1, plus “add…
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A new plugin I created for alexking.org 2.0 is a simple banner to indicate the age of the post that is shown in the comments form1. This is one of the changes I made to add context that I forgot to mention on my navigation post. To see it in action, browse the archives here.…
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Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. The old site navigation was basically in several parts: The main tree menu along the left Breadcrumbs and landing pages Blog archives, categories and search in the blog sidebar Not too much has changed fundamentally in the new design,…
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Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. It was probably in early 2004 when I started feeling enough dissatisfaction with my site that I wanted to re-build it. I took some of those thoughts and put them into the Tasks Pro™ web site I built in…
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I released a new version of my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release. Many thanks to those that opened threads for these bugs in the WordPress Support forums and pointed me to them. The updated download is available on my WordPress Plugins page. If you have any trouble…