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New WordPress plugin: Latest Update Date

November 16th, 2009 by Coen Jacobs

Every once in a while you come across a idea for a plugin that seems so obvious, yet far-fetched, that you can’t imagine that the plugin isn’t build already. That’s what happened when I got the idea for the Latest Update Date WordPress plugin.
A new client of me always had a date displayed in the [...]

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Create your very own WordPress plugin

November 10th, 2009 by Coen Jacobs

A request that I’ve received more than once lately, is to make a rewrite on my ‘How to create a WordPress plugin’ that I published on one of my previous blogs. Off course, I’m more than happy to publish it here again, mostly because it is so easy to create your own plugins and you [...]

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WordPress plugins: Use conditional file loading

October 26th, 2009 by Coen Jacobs

A post by Joost de Valk on Conditional Thickbox loading made me think on how this could be applied to a lot of plugins. For example, let’s take a look at Sociable.
Sociable is the plugin we all know, that shows those nice little chicklets to allow easy sharing of your articles via social networks and [...]

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Speedy development with WordPress Debug Theme

October 14th, 2009 by Coen Jacobs

Have you ever come across a point where you notice there is something wrong with a WordPress theme, but you just don’t know where to look? I know I have been there, and so is Joost de Valk, who published the WordPress Debug Theme today.
The things that I really like about it are the variables [...]

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Buma crawlers surrender before they even started

October 9th, 2009 by Coen Jacobs

In the past few days I have received more email, tweets and retweets on Twitter and phone calls than in the month of September in total. The reason is the launch of my Teezir blocking WordPress plugin. Once I launched that plugin, people have been massively downloading it, loving it and sharing it with other [...]

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