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 [...]
Read the full article: First steps in blocking BUMA crawlers in WordPress
For the Dutch blog Bijgespijkerd, I’ve build the entire WordPress installation, based on an existing design. Custom widgets and plugins are just a few parts of the development stage. And as soon as the blog went live, the development continued to improve the Bijgespijkerd-experience for the visitors, as well as the writing environment for the [...]
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 [...]
Read the full article: Create wireframes to build WordPress themes faster
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 [...]
Read the full article: New WordPress plugin: Creative Commons Suite
Thanks for all the feedback that I’ve received on my WordPress articles, plugins and other stuff so far since the start of this blog. It really keeps me going and gives me the feeling that people really like what I’m doing.
The diamond on the crown of this all was Erno Hannink asking me to join [...]
Read the full article: I’m not attending WordCamp Netherlands 2009
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