WordPress News

WordPress plugin Social Media Widget hiding spam

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2013

If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your website. Sucuri discovered it's being used to inject spam into websites and it has also been removed from the WordPress Plugin repository.…

Matt Mullenweg retracts Pressgram backing

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

Pressgram, an Instagram for WordPress Kickstarter app proposal, lost its primary backer today. Matt Mullenweg had backed the project with the highest $10,000 support level, and retracted it after learning the app would not be open source. John Saddington, who…

Plugin to see comments not replied to

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a plugin that really takes a single problem and solves it. Tom McFarlin, Pippin Williamson, and Andrew Norcross collaborated on a plugin to enable authors to see comments that are pending replies. I also love the way these guys…

Bad documentation is a bug

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

"Bad documentation is a bug" is a quote I saw from Jennifer Hodgdon at the Write The Docs conference that really stuck with me. I'm not at the conference; I just saw the quote. I think all developers should think about this quote, and…

Happy Easy Digital Downloads customers

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

I've seen quite a few happy customers voice out about Easy Digital Downloads, and its ease of use. James Dalman is the most recent example. I've been wanting to use it (beyond just testing) for a long time, and hopefully…

Open source choices

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

John Saddington shares why his WordPress-based / Instragram-like app, Pressgram, will not initially be open source. His Kickstarter project is very close to full funding with five days to go.

Numeric shortlinks plugin makes shortlinks simple

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

The biggest issue I've ever had with shortlink plugins is that the plugins usually seem like overkill. Custom domains and third party integrations annoy me. Kaspars Dambis seems to have simplified things a bit. His new Numeric Shortlinks plugin creates…

BadgeOS plugin for site achievements

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

WebDevStudios have released a plugin called BadgeOS for site owners to enable achievements and badges. I looked into a number of badge and achievements plugins when building Post Status, but never found one that fit. The Achievements plugin is quite…

The future of SEO plugins for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk talks about what he sees as the future of SEO plugins. In short, most of them suck. Joost's and a couple others are good, but don't trust most of what you see out there.

Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

Development

Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.

SEO tips for shifting your site to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

If you want to upgrade your site from ASP, Joomla, Drupal, HTML etc to WordPress you can follow the following steps in order to preserve your SEO rank and traffic.

Shortcode attributes filter added in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Mark Jaquith shares a nice new feature of WordPress 3.6 with his latest blog post: a shortcode attribute filter. So, if the person who registers the shortcode adds this third parameter, it makes it possible to extend the existing attributes…

10 useful WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

WordPress News

These plugins are quite handy for someone that makes websites for clients. Most of these are in my default setup, but I hadn't seen Content Aware Sidebars before, so I'll need to check it out.

Restaurant Engine Q&A with Brian Casel

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

Brian Casel has answered some questions about his WordPress SaaS project, Restaurant Engine. The questions are some he's gotten over time that he decided to put into one blog post. It's great to see his thought processes behind his project.

BackupBuddy 3.3 includes file integrity scans and improved user interfaces

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

BackupBuddy 3.3 has been released. The update includes a file integrity scan that is run during backup, as well as improvements for debugging plugin conflicts, canceling backups, and manually running scheduled backups.