Category Archives: WordPress
May 25, 2009 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
The second beta of WordPress 2.8 has been released. If you develop plugins or themes, it’s about time to do some testing. 
From the looks of things, I project that the final release should be available sometime this June. We may see another beta and a release candidate before then, but it won’t be long now, I don’t think.
As usual, you shouldn’t install it on a production blog. There are bound to be bugs. If you have an extra database handy, feel free to install a test blog and try it out though. This Codex page has an overview of some of the things coming in 2.8.
May 17
A new service called Blogs.mu sprang-up recently. It’s kind of like “WordPress MU in a box.” With a very WordPress.com-like setup, you register to become your own blog provider. So you can setup a topical blog community.
May 13
Yesterday I released my newest WordPress plugin: Tweetable. It helps integrate Twitter into your blog. It tweets your posts as they are published and adds a configurable sidebar widget that displays your latest tweets (with optional follower count). The automatic post-tweeting can be configured…
May 12
Google Analytics supports an interesting feature called campaign tagging, where you append variables to a URL so you can track a “campaign.” You could, for instance, add them to the URL of a post of yours that you will be sharing on Twitter. Then…
May 10
The WordPress Theme of the Month for May 2009 is Gallery, released by Smashing Magazine and designed by Christopher Wallace.
May 8
Apparently I’ve been doing things the hard way in my WordPress-related coding. I’ve been using regular expressions to turn URLs into clickable links, when WordPress already has a built-in formatting function to do just that. Meet make_clickable(). All you have to do is pass…
May 5
Jayvee Fernandez recently wrote on The Blog Herald about WordPress and it’s problems with historical timestamps. A friend on Plurk asked whether it is possible to use actual historical dates on your blog’s CMS (i.e. 4th of July 1776 for Independence Day). I did…
May 4
For the Twitter-obsessed who want to display their follower count on their blogs, ThemeSphere has put together a WordPress plugin that will get it in plain text. Installing the plugin gives you access to a function and a shortcode that will return the follower…
May 1
wpTweety is yet another one of those “twitterwall” sites (like Helveti-Tweet), where Twitter postings on a certain topic are harvested from the Search API and dumped onto the site. By the name, I’m sure you can realize what topic wpTweety searches Twitter for… WordPress!…
Apr 29
A month or two ago I had an interesting idea involving WordPress permalinks. I realized that is would be very simple to automatically shorten WordPress permalinks for usage on Twitter. With a little .htaccess tweak, you could have something like yourdomain.com/s123 redirect to yourdomain.com?p=123.…
