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New WordPress plugin: Latest Update Date

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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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First steps in blocking BUMA crawlers in WordPress

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

UPDATE: Victory for us as bloggers, Buma crawlers surrendered!
Today was a sad day for lots of Dutch bloggers. The BUMA/STEMRA announced some new rules for embedding videos from YouTube for example. Starting next year, you have to pay for embedding videos on your blog that contain music that is licensed by BUMA/STEMRA. Yes, you can [...]

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Create wireframes to build WordPress themes faster

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Creating a custom WordPress theme can be quite some work, even when you are pretty skilled with HTML, CSS and know your way through the theme requirements.
The best thing that I’ve done to reduce the time I need to develop a new WordPress theme, is to create a wireframe theme. A wireframe is nothing more [...]

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New WordPress plugin: Creative Commons Suite

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

My Creative Commons Suite plugin has been released in the WordPress plugin database. This plugin makes it really easy to add a link to the Creative Commons license you desire, to protect your content.
Yes, I know that there are other plugins around that do the same. But this plugin has more options and even more [...]

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Easily customize your WordPress comments looks

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

As you might know, the function that displays the comments on your WordPress blog (wp_list_comments()) is declared inside the WordPress core. Have you ever wondered how to customize the look of your WordPress comments within your theme and without having to change anything to the core? It is possible and can be done easily.
But many [...]

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Advanced but very easy WordPress sidebar markup

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

WordPress builds it’s sidebars by default with lists, simple unordered lists. This is very easy for displaying little blocks of information and a couple of widgets. But the markup and styling of a list can be a little more effort. When you are building your own theme, or customizing a existing theme, here are some [...]

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