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Tag Archive for 'wordpress'

Twittering Away

2 years, 4 months ago 0 Comments

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As part of my new design, I included my latest tweets (twitter statuses). In order to better enable others to do the same, I am releasing my plugin to the general public. WPTWIT allows you to integrate your twitter account with a minimum of effort into any widget enabled theme. However, there is one danger in installing this plugin; you may end up forsaking your blog entirely in favor of the comfort and ease of twitter. You’d be surprised how much you can say in 140 characters in less. Enjoy this new plugin certainly fits.

Quick and Easy WordPress Redirection

2 years, 4 months ago 0 Comments

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As I was working on my new contact form, I thought of the fact that many people might try to access it by simply typing in http://myfla.ws/contact. Therefore, I set off to find a solution which would easily redirect those people to my actual contact page. When looking, I had a couple of requirements in mind:

  • The script must be bundled in a WordPress plugin.
  • It must not interfere with any other part of my blog. (ie. It can’t require custom fields to function)
  • The management panel must be extremely easy to use.

When I was unable to find any plugin which met all of these requirements, I ended up spending a couple of hours to script one of my own. After some PHP work and practice in MySQL troubleshooting, I put together Permacop (short for Permalink cop). If you noticed, that link itself is an example of the plugin since it links to http://myfla.ws/permacop but redirects to http://myfla.ws/projects/permacop/. Using Permacop any blog can have its own personal traffic directer.

Keep Track of Your Birthday

2 years, 5 months ago 0 Comments

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As I was reworking my company website, I wanted to have a way to dynamically embed the current age of the company in the about page. Since the site is run using WordPress, I created a simple plugin which keeps track of your birthdays. As I plunged into the depths of php, I continued to add more features. Soon, I had a fully fledged plugin. Christening it GenKeep, I packaged it for release and created a simple UI. If you, like many people, display your age on your about page, download this cool little plugin today.