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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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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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Bijgespijkerd kicked off my carreer

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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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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Get some easy social network action on your blog

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Social networks like Twitter, Digg, Delicious and many others have a important role for bloggers who like to have some serious traffic on their blogs. That’s exactly why there are lots of plugins that focus on getting your content into the social networks that you like. There are two plugins that I really love, that [...]

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Updated the TipiT Suite to version 0.3

Monday, September 14th, 2009

My TipiT Suite WordPress plugin was just updated two days ago, but today I have to announce another update. I just submitted version 0.3 of the plugin, that fixes a bug with the newly introduced default form values.
Today is also the day that TipiT announced a bunch of new stuff. So I just took care [...]

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Updated my TipiT Suite WordPress plugin

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

The first version of my TipiT Suite WordPress plugin was rather rough. Once you installed the plugin, no default values were provided in the configuration. In this update, to version 0.2, there are a few default values present once you install the plugin, so the purpose of the settings will be more obvious.
Thanks to Alper [...]

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