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| WordPress Plugin: Promotion Tool Many of you looking for a WordPress plugin promotion tool have stumbled across my Happiness Today plugin.
You seem disappointed that the next version is where the real promotion potential lies, but the good news is that you do not need to wait.
If you have downloaded and activated Happiness To [...] | Keith from shrewdies Fri 2 Apr 10 - 06:40 |
| WordPress Pods: Food For Thought The data-presentation link is vital. To get the best out of WordPress Pods, it pays to study the sample that is packaged with the Pods CMS plugin, and the more advanced examples in the Pods Packages directory.
It is also vital to have a clear plan of the presentation outcomes that you need.
Wh [...] | Keith from shrewdies Thu 18 Mar 10 - 08:01 |
| Pods WordPress Plugins Double Overnight Today, the number of WordPress Pods plugins in the plugin database doubled.
My Happiness Today plugin release joins the Pods UI plugin to double the number of examples of Pods CMS use.
Though this is released as a teaching tool, you should not assume it is perfect. Though it works perfectly, the [...] | Keith from shrewdies Mon 15 Mar 10 - 05:50 |
| WordPress Pods Projects Going For A Song When I introduced my WordPress Pods Plugin Builder yesterday, I hinted at an example project to test the builder with.
I can reveal that this will be an homage to the ubiquitous Hello Dolly plugin - with some extras, and some Pods magic.
Just to remind you. I love Pods as it is intended to be [...] | Keith from shrewdies Thu 11 Mar 10 - 08:03 |
| Pods WordPress Plugin The Pods WordPress plugin is driving me crazy.
Mad with admiration one minute, mad with frustration the next.
It's like breaking your leg when you jump around to celebrate a lottery win. Fantastic find - frustrating failings.
Let me say first, that so far, I believe the potential of this pl [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 9 Mar 10 - 04:32 |
| WordPress Plugins - Developer's Dream I searched for WordPress Plugins that would help me apply structure to my own efforts.
A scary journey, but now the nightmare is over.
Now I can dream happily of a bright WordPress development future.
But, there is no time to dream. Not even time to hack together a pretty picture to decorat [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 9 Mar 10 - 04:31 |
| WordPress Plugin That Isn't This is about the WordPress plugin that isn't a plugin!
It might become one. It started life as one.
But, for now, it is a Pods package, and this is the first part in a series that explains what a Pods package is, how it improves WordPress functionality, and how you can apply it to your own si [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 9 Mar 10 - 04:31 |
| WordPress Database Extension Extending the WordPress database is the first step in developing my menu bar.
In most WordPress extensions, a lot of data is hidden in the code.
The massive advantage of Pods is that we can easily store additional data, and manage it very efficiently.
In the first installment of this series [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 9 Mar 10 - 04:30 |
| WordPress Pods Plugin Builder Taking Shape WordPress Pods CMS plugin is fantastic for adding new content to websites that do not easily fit the standard Page or Post styles.
With it's easy to use interface, it is good for novice writers, but it also stands on a very powerful data management platform.
This makes it a real candidate for [...] | Keith from shrewdies Mon 8 Mar 10 - 10:04 |
| WordPress Plugins - Beginners Nightmare WordPress plugins are vital for efficiently functioning websites.
[caption id="attachment_280" align="alignright" width="235" caption="WordPress Plugins Structure Nightmare"][/caption]Given their importance, I would expect much more effort going into helping new plugin developers get to grips with [...] | Keith from shrewdies Fri 1 Jan 10 - 12:33 |
| Simple:Press Forum Enhancements The Simple:Press forum plugin is one of the most comprehensive and customisable plugins available for WordPress.
Is that enough for me?
Oh, no! I have to push just that little bit further.
It started some time ago, when I wanted to include a hyperlink in a forum description. I was pleasantl [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 22 Dec 09 - 12:44 |
| WordPress Plugin Control My dreams for WordPress plugin control have been realizedAfter months of planning an installation script (OK - occasionally thinking about planning one!), I have found the ideal plugin to control WordPress Plugins
If you have setup more than a couple of WordPress installations, or you want to [...] | Keith from shrewdies Fri 4 Dec 09 - 04:30 |
| Commandeer Comments WordPress comments enhance your site when managed properly.
Encourage commenting, and you add effortless content to your site.
Make it hard, and your visitors will walk away
Comment control using spam management plugins is important, but if you don't encourage commenting you might as well j [...] | Keith from shrewdies Sun 18 Oct 09 - 07:16 |
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| Best WordPress WYSIWYG Editor (5 comments) Keith, I must thank you for helping me implement it, even if in an indirect way. It's been a pleasure meeting here.
Your explanation of the wraps around nicEdit became the moment when I put together some previous readings with my problems and got an eureka moment.
I had already tried the FE [...] | vince jelenic Fri 27 Aug 10 - 08:50 |
| WordPress Default WYSIWYG Editor (2 comments) NicEdit working with MSIE, notes now available. [...] | Keith from shrewdies Thu 26 Aug 10 - 12:09 |
| WordPress WYSIWYG Made Easy (5 comments) hi,
installed and used nicedit... could not get beyond the problem with narrow window in IE.
I'm using "pretty comments" plugin at the moment.
The only thing sadly lacking is the ability to allow commenters to upload photos (nicedit used imageshack, pretty comments only allows URL placing) [...] | vince jelenic Thu 26 Aug 10 - 09:24 |
| Make Microformats Work For You - Ignore Them (2 comments) Hi Rapha,Thank you for taking the time to explain the motivation for your WordPress plugin.Open licensing is important to me also, but I have not spent enough time implementing it. I have written about the wealth of open licensed images and software to help WordPress webmasters. Now, with your Image [...] | Keith from shrewdies Fri 26 Feb 10 - 03:52 |
| WordPress MU File Editor Revealed (1 comments) thanks a lot for this. [...] | Hippy Randall Fri 19 Feb 10 - 05:45 |
| WordPress Plugin For Forum Access & More (1 comments) This is now the shrewdBar WordPress menu bar project. I am documenting it's progress as a series of blog articles, and welcome any ideas you have for improving it's functionality.I've tagged the articles with shrewdBar, so you can see them all together. [...] | Keith from shrewdies Tue 2 Feb 10 - 06:33 |
| WordPress Theme Functions (1 comments) On the other hand, it is too much to expect that a theme can do everything you need, so some editing is inevitable.
In that case, a Theme Edit Checklist would be a very useful feature to have. [...] | Shrewdy Sat 16 Jan 10 - 02:52 |
| WordPress Comment Control (1 comments) Thank you! [...] | Suzanne Mon 14 Dec 09 - 05:06 |
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