Embed tweets into your WordPress blog with the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin
November 23rd, 2010 by Youzhny
Do you usually take screenshots, upload them, and then embed the images just to share tweets on your blog? It is now as simple as using the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin. With Twitter Blackbird Pie you can display all your tweets in their glorious fashion rather than just simple images or URLs.
WordPress.com recently enabled this on their user’s blogs, but you can install it yourself if you run...
How To Make Your WordPress Website Mobile Friendly
November 23rd, 2010 by Youzhny
At the start of November, WordPress announced that it had just passed 1 million mobile users. That’s a lot of people using WordPress apps on their phones! To celebrate WordPress’ achievement I thought I’d take a look at how your iPhone/Android/Blackberry/Nokia/Samsung/HTC/etc and WordPress can be friends.
But first….. let’s take a look mobile internet access more generally.
In early 2010...
Enchance aMSN with nice skins and Plugins
November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid
aMSN is an instant messaging client for the MSN network. It was originally a clone of the Windows MSN Messenger program.
That means it has the same look and feel as it’s Windows counterpart. Since then aMSN has evolved into a more mature client, and has crafted it’s own look and feel, as well as it’s own set of features.
Amsn come with many features, but always you can enchance...
New Plugin Makes it Easy to Embed Any Facebook Content on Your WordPress Site
November 15th, 2010 by Youzhny
Embed Facebook is a new plugin that makes the process of posting Facebook content in WordPress ridiculously simple: Paste the URL (of a facebook album, picture, video, page, or event) and the plugin will automatically embed the related object.
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The only requirement is that the object must be public and should belong to a Facebook Page. That means you cannot embed your personal albums. If you...
John Saddington releases the Social Widget WordPress Plugin
November 15th, 2010 by Youzhny
John Saddington of Standard Theme and TentBlogger fame has released the Social Widget WordPress Plugin.
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The plugin adds a lightweight, tabbed social media area to a blog’s sidebar that includes a Twitter feed, RSS feed and a Facebook profile badge or social plugin. Users can customize the area by defining the number of tweets to include and choosing whether or not to display avatars.
A video...
New plugin development book now available for pre-order
November 15th, 2010 by Youzhny
As J.D. mentioned about a month ago, Brad Williams, //
Ozh Richard, and Justin Tadlock are collaborating on a new book, Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Andrew Nacin is the book’s technical editor. Whether you’re building your first plugin or fine tuning your tenth, this book should help you out.
The book is slated to be published by Wrox on March 11, but is available for pre-order...
Featured WordPress Plugin: Lazyest Stylesheet
November 14th, 2010 by Youzhny
Ever make changes to your theme or plugin’s stylesheet, forget about them and then lose them after you update your theme? Happens to me all of the time. Then there’s much head scratching about what changes I had made and how I can get my site looking like it was looking before I went and updated. //
The Lazyest Stylesheet Plugin provides a space for a permanent stylesheet where you can put your...
E-commerce plugin GetShopped asks for your opinon
November 13th, 2010 by Youzhny
Dan Millward announced today that GetShopped.org wants your opinion on new features for the plugin. Candidates for new or improved features are:
More Coupon Conditions
Enhanced Multi Currency Support
Advanced stock control and pre order alerts
Enhanced Sales Logs
Stepped Checkout
Wholesale Price vs. Normal Pricing
Better Customer Management
There is also an “Other” choice with a text box to...
Daily Tip: Never Post a WordPress Blog by Accident Again!
November 12th, 2010 by Youzhny
Have you ever accidentally clicked that shiny blue “Publish” button before your blog was ready, intending simply to save a draft? It can happen, and in some cases it can be embarrassing, especially if you have your blog set up to automatically tweet out to all of your followers. Save yourself the hassle by adding the wordpress.org/extend/plugins/publish-confirmation/ Publish Confirmation plugin...
New Plugin Seamlessly Integrates Google Calendars and WordPress
November 12th, 2010 by Youzhny
If you’ve ever had to add a Google calendar to WordPress in the past, then you know that there’s really no elegant option for embedding your calendars. They always end up looking ugly, distorted and utilitarian on your otherwise beautiful website.
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Now you can say goodbye to ugly Google calendar solutions, because a new plugin called wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stout-google-calendar/”...
WP.Envato now shares Envato’s contributions to the WordPress community
November 12th, 2010 by Youzhny
Envato, the company behind WordPres theme marketplace ThemeForest, plugin marketplace CodeCanyon, and a number of very popular blogs running on WordPress, has today launched WP.Envato, a site to showcase “what [they're] up to in the world of WordPress.”
Currently the site lists the plugins they have themselves created and released for free to the community. The latest of these is OptionTree,...
9 User-Friendly Featured Content Slider Plugins for WordPress
November 11th, 2010 by Youzhny
Featured sliders are all the rage right now, because they provide an easy way to showcase your best content and keep keep your visitors interested with instantly changing images. When searching for a plugin to handle your site’s featured content and/or images, it can be completely overwhelming, given the vast number available. Who knows which are any good? I want to save you an hour of research with...