Posts Tagged wordpress
Social History – Now a Handy WordPress Plugin
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on 22Sep08
Last week I stumbled across thisĀ blog post by Aza announcing his “SocialHistory.js” script, and it really inspired me to do better with the Social Bookmarks on this blog. So imagine my surprise when I realized that there was no WordPress plugin available yet!
I hadn’t written my first WordPress plugin, so I decided this would be a perfect opportunity. You can see it working below this post (and every other post on the site) – where you will find social bookmarking links for only those sites that we’ve seen in your browser history.
I’m still waiting for my submission to be accepted at WordPress.org, but if you simply cannot wait to get a copy for yourself, leave me a comment and I’ll send you the tarball.
Oh, and a big thank-you to the makers of Sociable – I borrowed liberally from their plugin for this one.
If any of you are interested in collaborating to make this a little less ugly, let me know!
My New Favorite WordPress Plugin
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on 20Mar08
At NothernVoice last month, Mark Lise and I led an unconference session on “PowerBlogging“, which was intended to be an open discussion of everyone’s favorite tips and tricks. While I think we fell a little short on actionable content, everyone in the room got a great feeling about the level of expertise available to them (surprisingly HIGH) in the Canadian Blogging community. Here were some of the big surprises:
- In a room of around 50 people, more than 3 had written their own plugins
- More than 5 were pro-bloggers
- Over half had customized their themes
- More than 10 wrote their OWN themes from scratch
- NO one agreed on the most important WordPress Plugin
Fixin wordpress Tags to make Matt Mullenweg Happy
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on 26Feb08
At Northern Voice this past weekend, I had a chance to chat with Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, and he pointed out an ugly little bug in the Flock blog editor – specifically, we weren’t using the right API call to submit tags with WordPress posts.
This bug had turned up about 6 months ago, in a new release of WordPress, and Flock hasn’t revisited the wordpress support in quite some time.
Luckily, it was a simple two line fix.
This post is, in fact, a test of the fix. If we’re happy, it should be tagged:
wordpress
Matt Mullenweg
lloyd budd
flock
bug fixin
How did we do?
