Category Archives: Plugins

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HeadMeta 1.4

By Dougal | Published: December 17, 2008

Due to changes in the postmeta API, my HeadMeta plugin had a compatibility problem with some recent versions of WordPress. The problem appeared when there was only one postmeta value (either a ‘head_meta’ or ‘head_link’ entry) associated with a post. [...]

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged add keywords to posts, description, headmeta, keywords, meta, Metadata, Plugins, SEO, WordPress, wordpress seo plugin | 1 Comment

Yarrr! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

By Dougal | Published: September 19, 2008

Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had been hoping that I would be able to find time to upgrade my Text Filter Suite plugin for WordPress (which includes my Pirate filter for posts and comments), but I’ve just been too busy. [...]

Also posted in Announcements, Community, Fun, Pirates, TalkLikeAPirate, WordPress | Tagged Pirates, plugin, Plugins, TalkLikeAPirate, text-filter-suite, tfs, WordPress, yarrr | 12 Comments

XCache Object Cache Plugin for WordPress 2.5+

By Dougal | Published: August 29, 2008

Download:	xcache-plugin.zip
Version:	0.7d
Updated:	August 29, 2008
Size:	1.94 KB

This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of WordPress users. [...]

Also posted in Tech, WordPress | Tagged .net, cache, caching, Development, object-cache, opcode cache, Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, WordPress, xcache | 69 Comments

Plugin: WriteScroll

By Dougal | Published: June 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, Les Orchard tweeted a complaint about the WordPress editor:

wordpress annoyance: textarea for editing a blog post doesn’t start until more than 1/2 way down my screen. Too much nav; always scrolling.

I figured that was a problem easily solved, so while I was eating my lunch that day, I whipped up a mini-plugin to help out. The WriteScroll plugin checks to see if you are on one of the main editing pages, and if so, it injects a bit of javascript into the page which automatically scrolls the browser down so that the editor’s container is at the top of the browser window. [...]

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged editing, editor, JavaScript, jquery, pages, posts, usability, WordPress | 14 Comments

Easy Gravatars 1.2

By Dougal | Published: March 6, 2008

Earlier today, I released Easy Gravatars version 1.2. The only change (besides confirming that works in WordPress 2.5, currently in beta, due out next week) is that when installed under WordPress 2.5 or newer, it will use the new core get_avatar() function to generate the image tag. And since get_avatar() is a pluggable function, other plugins could conceivably use it to generate avatar icons from other services, and Easy Gravatars would then use the new service too.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, don’t sweat it. [...]

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged avatar, avatars, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 37 Comments

WordPress 2.5 Beta

By Dougal | Published: March 2, 2008

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.5 Beta. So far, everything appears to be working just fine.

And since I know lots of people will ask, I checked my plugins, and most of them (HeadMeta, Text Filter Suite, and Easy Gravatars), work just fine. The one that doesn’t work is Theme Preview. [...]

Also posted in Blogging, WordPress | Tagged app, avatar, avatars, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, headmeta, plugin, Plugins, text-filter-suite, theme-preview, WordPress | 27 Comments

Reactivate All Plugins feature in WordPress 2.5

By Dougal | Published: January 22, 2008

Once upon a time, I whipped up a Reactivate All Plugins feature for WordPress, to compliment the Deactivate All Plugins action (which is recommended before an upgrade). Unfortunately, the patch didn’t make it into the WordPress 2.2 release. And I forgot to nudge anybody about it for the 2.3 release until it was too late. But, the plugin reactivation patch is slated for inclusion in the 2.5 release, due in March (BTW, you did know that version 2.4 is being skipped, right?).

That said, you might notice that I added a note on the feature request ticket. [...]

Also posted in Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Tagged features, interface, plugin, Plugins, reactivate, safemode, ui, usability, WordPress | 49 Comments

Twitterings

By Dougal | Published: December 13, 2007

You might have already noticed, but I finally hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon. You can see my latest tweets in the sidebar (it’s the “What I’m Doing” section), and I currently have it auto-posting a daily summary here on the blog (courtesy of the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress). I’m not sure if I’ll continue that or not, though. Of course, if you are also on Twitter, you can just follow my tweets with whatever method you prefer.

When Twitter first started, I didn’t think I’d see much value in it. [...]

Also posted in Blogging, Community, Services, WordPress | Tagged alexking, plugin, Plugins, RSS, SocialNetworks, tweets, twitter, twittertools, WordPress | 26 Comments

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

By Dougal | Published: November 16, 2007

My Easy Gravatars plugin is now in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ve released version 1.1.

Changes:

Gravatar images now link to comment author’s URL, if provided.
Gravatar code now prepended to text instead of appended.
Added stylesheet for options page and improved layout. Split options into
‘General’ and ‘Advanced’.
New advanced option for selecting either ‘Comment Author Link’ or ‘Comment
Text’ API hook.

When time allows, I’m going to try to add support for favicons on pingbacks and trackbacks, and maybe as a fallback for people without Gravatars. [...]

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged app, avatar, avatars, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, plugin, Plugins, Releases, update, WordPress | 46 Comments

Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics Plugin

By Dougal | Published: November 9, 2007

Several people have reported problems using my Easy Gravatars plugin together with Joost de Valk’s Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. I spent some time looking over the code yesterday and found the conflict. I sent a patch to Joost, and he has released version 1.4 of his Google Analytics plugin. . [...]