bsuite WordPress Plugin (b2 release)
[innerindex]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. The name change reflects that fact that the plugin is doing a lot more than simply track page loads. The...
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bsuite Features: The Photo Spread
bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site. — – — bsuite uses...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2b)
[innerindex]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week. Fixes A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases. A silly mistake of mine that cause...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v3)
[innerindex]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users. Fixed Previous versions would throw errors at the bottom of the page when the...
View ArticleWordPress 2.0 & bsuite
Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. WordPress 2.0 is out and available for download now. I don’t know how the development team did it — I mean with the holidays and all — but here it is. And now I...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Add To del.icio.us
I’m not running it here (only because I’m too lazy), but I was happy to find Arne Brachold’s Del.icio.us – Bookmark this! WordPress Plugin. It puts a sweet Bookmark on del.icio.us link whereever you...
View Articlebsuite Feature: User Contributed Tags
Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite. There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether...
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Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v6)
[innerindex]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available. It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features,...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v7)
[innerindex]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is...
View ArticlebSuite 3 Released
[innerindex]I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. I renamed it bSuite...
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Language Translation Icon
We all need a recognized icon to represent “translate this.” We’ve got one for feeds and social bookmarking, but where’s our translate icon? A lot of folks simply use flags, but that’s a bad idea...
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bSuite 4 Public Beta
I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard.net is a lot of fun), kicked me into gear to actually get...
View ArticlebSuite 4 beta 2
I announced the bSuite 4 public beta not long ago, now I’ve just posted a new version to SVN that addresses some of the bugs and fleshes out some of the features. I have yet to update the bSuite page,...
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Do WordPress Pages Better With bSuite
ContentsWrite excerpts, tag, and categorize your pagesAutomatically insert anchors in your pageAutomatically list sub-pagesAutomatically list sub-pages with excerptsWordPress‘ Pages feature makes the...
View ArticleDetermining Paths and URLs In WordPress 2.6+
WP 2.6 allows sites to move the wp-content directory around, so plugin developers like me can’t depend on them being in a predictable location. We can look to the WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_DIR...
View ArticleNew Plugin: wpSMS Supports Sending SMS Messages
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View ArticleTricky Uses of bSuite
After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. The cool thing about writing Pages in WordPress is that I can create a taxonomy like...
View ArticleSlideshare WordPress Embed Shortcode
I’m cleaning house in bSuite, and I’ve decided that this shortcode function for embedding Slideshare items in WordPress needs to go. Rather than totally toss it away, however, I’m posting it here in...
View ArticleWufoo Forms WordPress Embed Shortcode
I tossed this together a while ago, and it even made it in to bSuite for a time, but I don’t have a need for it anymore, and I’m cleaning house. function shortcode_wufoo( $arg ){ // [wufoo id=z7x4m0...
View ArticleCustomizable Post Listings
Lorelle is a big fan of Scott Reilly’s Customizable Post Listings: Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post, page, or draft listings using...
View ArticleWhat is David McNicol’s URL Cache Plugin?
The description to David McNicol’s URL Cache Plugin raises more questions than it answers: Given a URL, the url_cache() function will attempt to download the file it represents and return a URL...
View ArticleThe translate icon however says to me that a computer is going to translate...
The translate icon however says to me that a computer is going to translate something for me automatically, on demand. It’s probably not going to be as good as a human-translated page.
View ArticleURL Path Bug In WordPress.com Video Server
You’ve got to both respect Automattic for releasing their internal code as open source while also giving them a break for not assuring that it works for anybody else. One of their projects, the...
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Wijax Widget Lazy Loader
Idea: A simple way to improve load-time performance by lazy loading some of the content on the page. Answer: Wijax. The more content in the initial download of the page, the longer readers have to wait...
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