Introducing Smartdate
I recently have been working on a WordPress plugin called WP-Smartdate and I’m happy to say that it is hosted at wordpress.org starting today. As some people have noticed, my blog recently has included...
View ArticleYet Another Related Posts Plugin
UPDATE: This posting is now outdated… for the latest information on YARPP, please visit YARPP’s very own page on my site, or its page on wordpress.org. If you have questions, please submit on the...
View ArticleModifiying WordPress plugin activation behavior
As I continue to work on and debug Yet Another Related Posts Plugin and WP-Smartdate, I’ve come across an issue where plugin activation fails, but I get no useful error message. When I try to activate...
View ArticleMarkdown for WordPress and bbPress
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress 1.0 30 kb - zip I like many others am a big fan of John Gruber’s Markdown, a simple typesetting spec for entering text in a clean, legible plain-text fashion and...
View ArticleYet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0.5 16 kb - zip Well, it’s been a while since I updated my plugin YARPP—in my humble opinion the best related posts plugin for WordPress. ^^ Today I release version...
View ArticleKeep up with Yet Another Related Posts Plugin with RSS!
As more and more people have been using my Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, I thought it would be nice to have an RSS feed for users to stay on top of the latest releases. Yet Another...
View ArticleExternal orders in WordPress queries
The advanced WordPress user is intimately familiar with query_posts, the function which controls which posts are displayed in “The Loop.” query_posts gives plugin and theme writers the ability to...
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This is what a release looks like
This is what the latest release (2.1.6) of my Yet Another Related Posts Plugin looked like under Mint, using my WordPress plugin downloads pepper, which in turn gets its data from wordpress.org: It’s...
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Using Templates with YARPP 3
Post updated January 2012 to reflect cleaner template code available with YARPP 3.4. If you have a YARPP support question not directly related to the templating feature, please use the YARPP support...
View ArticleCount command for Ubiquity
(This is primarily a blog post to test out Sandro’s plugin for embedding Ubiquity commands in WordPress. If you don’t see the “subscribe to command” come up, make sure you’re looking at the single page...
View ArticleFixing Geshi on line 2132
I recently noticed that some of my blog posts, most notably my Templates in YARPP 3 article, was producing a PHP error: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg recommends YARPP on Tekzilla!
A new user of my WordPress plugin tipped me off to a recent Tekzilla segment where WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg recommended Yet Another Related Posts Plugin as one of his personal favorite...
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A Visual Guide to Community Command Localization
A natural language interface is only “natural” if it’s in your natural language. With this mantra in mind, we’ve been making steady progress on the challenging problem of Ubiquity localization. The...
View ArticleHookPress: Webhooks for WordPress
I recently have spent a little time putting together a new WordPress plugin called HookPress. HookPress lets you add webhooks to WordPress, letting you easily develop push notifications or extend...
View ArticleExtending WordPress talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup. The Boston WordPress Meetup meets monthly at the Microsoft Cambridge Research Center which is a fantastic venue right on the Charles river. Last...
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WordCamp Boston 2010
This past weekend I gave a couple talks at the inaugural WordCamp Boston. WordCamps are local, community-organized events for WordPress users and enthusiasts. We had about 400 people at the Microsoft...
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Spring is for Speaking: JSConf, WordCamp SF, IACL
I recently confirmed three different very exciting speaking gigs which I’ll be doing this spring: JSConf.us: I’ll be putting my Mozilla Jetpack Ambassador hat on to represent Mozilla Labs’ Jetpack...
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Every website has a purpose
Every website has a purpose. Maybe you want people to buy a product, donate to your cause, download your app, or subscribe to your mailing list. How can you confidently modify your site to make it more...
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The next generation of related posts: announcing the YARPP-BlogGlue partnership
On January 2nd, 2008, from the rural town in eastern Taiwan where I was then working, I committed version 1.0 of the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) to the WordPress plugins repository. Since...
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