Getting back in WordPress blogging action

It’s been a while since my last post on this blog. Been pretty busy with lots of cool WordPress projects. I’m currently updating my portfolio so stay tuned! As you can see, I’ve updated this blog to WordPress 3.0 and … Continue reading

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Speaking at WordPress meetup in Amersfoort

Yesterday was the first WordPress meetup in Amersfoort. I was invited to host a presentation on WordPress plugin development and off course, I was pleased to do so. I met some great, inspiring people (Remkus de Vries and Jeroen van … Continue reading

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Using conditional WordPress plugin file loading

Back in 2009, I wrote a post on why you should use conditional file loading in a WordPress plugin. Now that we know why we should use it, let’s take a look at the massive amount of ways we can … Continue reading

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Display Twitter followers count in plain text

Although Twittercounter is a great service, the button you can display on your blog looks horrible. What we want is our number of followers on Twitter, in plain text, so we can style it the way we want. Thanks to … Continue reading

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Added some more business body to my blog

The past months I’ve been developing on WordPress projects for lots of clients and some very cool collaborations. Unfortunately, that lead to a lack of posts on this blog. But that’s exactly what’s going to change as of today, starting … Continue reading

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New WordPress plugin: Latest Update Date

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 … Continue reading

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Create your very own WordPress plugin

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress plugins: Use conditional file loading

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 … Continue reading

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Speedy development with WordPress Debug Theme

Have you ever come across a point where you notice there is something wrong with a WordPress install, but you just don’t know where to look? I know I have been there, and so is Joost de Valk, who published … Continue reading

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Buma crawlers surrender before they even started

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 … Continue reading

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