This is a reminder that this Friday, July 11th at 10PM EST, Alex King will be my special guest for a one hour interview. Alex King is the creator behind some of the most popular WordPress plugins in use today. Join me as we discuss his software development company Crowd Favorite, WordPress, and plugin development. [...]
July 8th, 2008 | Jeffro | 4 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "plugins"
Pitch Consisting Of 140 Characters Or Less
Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com has released a WordPress plugin entitled WP-TwitterPitch. The idea behind the plugin is to tidy up your email inbox allowing those from Public Relation companies to pitch bloggers through twitter, forcing the PR representatives to get their point across in 140 characters or less. A couple things worth noting involving this [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
MBLA Plugin Reaches v .42
A new version of the MyBlogLogAvatar WordPress plugin has been released which puts it at version 0.42. This new version includes
Added an option to use Wavatars, MonsterIDs and Identicons through Gravatar as described here
Fixed Some issues with deleting anonymous avatars.
Although Gravatar support can be added to WordPress themes by means of adding the gravatar function, [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
Sharing The Comment Luv
After reading numerous posts from other blogs across the blogosphere, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and install the CommentLuv plugin on this blog. Comment Luv is a plugin which attempts to parse the RSS feed from the commenter’s website. That website is defined by the URL that is submitted into the comment form by [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Jeffro | 12 comments | Continued
New Version Of ShareThis Classic Released
Alex King has announced that they have released a new version of ShareThis Classic. This puts the plugin at version 1.5.2. The new version contains:
Better examples and instructions for localization1 and customization of Social Web services.
The ability to turn off all sharethis.com tracking information if you want to. Note you may need to deactivate and [...]
Vipers QuickTags 5.4 Released
Viper has released a new version of his popular video embedding plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. The plugin is now at version 5.4.0 and is officially compatible with WordPress 2.5. Here is the changelog which highlights whats new in this version:
Updated to support WordPress 2.5 and it’s TinyMCE 3 (required a whole new TinyMCE plugin [...]
March 10th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Use WordPress Like A Forum
Here is something interesting. The_dead_one also known as TDO has created a theme for WordPress which essentially turns a WordPress blog into a forum. The theme comes with the following features:
Lists Posts by date of last comment (instead of published date) (included as a page template)
Unread topics are highlighted and can be used to filter [...]
WordPress Sniplets Vulnerabilities
This is one of the few HIGHLY CRITICAL security bulletins I’ve seen. The security firm NBBN has discovered some vulnerabilities within the WordPress Sniplets plugin which could be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, or compromise a vulnerable system.
The security bulletin outlines the following configurations in which this plugin can be exploited:
1) [...]
Share This Intros Reporting
Alex King has announced that his popular ShareThis plugin/service now has an area to display reports. These reports contain information such as button views and clicks, click-though ratios, top shared locations, most popular content and more.
All of you WordPress folks that have registered and have been using the 2.x version of ShareThis now have a [...]
InstantUpgrade Beta Released
A new beta version of the hugely popular WordPress plugin, Instant Upgrade has been released. The new release promises to be more convenient to use. However, a good amount of testing has yet to be performed on this new version. Therefor, the author of the plugin is asking that anyone experienced to please download and [...]
February 11th, 2008 | Jeffro | 10 comments | Continued
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