Category: WordPress
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Metermaid: Easy Water Meter Tracking, Powered By WordPress
My house’s water is supplied by a well. This well is shared with a dozen other houses, all of which have water meters to track usage. Several years ago, I was volunteered to be the president of this water association, and with this position came the responsibility for tracking water usage to ensure that we’re…
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Share an iPhoto Library on the Web with WordPress
I recently needed to publish the contents of an iPhoto library online, so I wrote a script that converts the library to a WordPress site using WordPress’s REST API. The script is available in my iPhoto-WordPress-Export repository on GitHub. Check it out, and then run it like this: $ ./iphoto2wordpress.php –library=/path/to/photo/library –wordpress=https://www.example.com/ After prompting for a…
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Ryuki, a magazine variation on the Ryu WordPress theme
I’ve been using the beautiful Ryu theme by Takashi Irie on this site for a couple of years, but I’ve always wanted to have the homepage display more than just my latest posts. To address this, I’ve written a child theme for Ryu that allows you to select categories to feature on the homepage alongside…
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Alexa, start a new post called, “I’m blogging this with my voice.”
I’ve written and published an Alexa skill that lets you check your blog notifications, moderate comments, and start new draft posts on your WordPress.com or Jetpack-enabled blog, all by speaking to any Alexa-enabled device. The skill is called “Blog Helper“; you’ll find it in the Skills section of your Alexa app or by saying, “Alexa,…
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New WordPress Plugin: Unpredictable Image Filenames
I’ve written a new WordPress plugin to help protect uploaded images from being accessed just by guessing the URL. Many cameras and smartphones number their images in a predictable format. For example, iPhones use the format IMG_0001.jpg. If you include IMG_0345.jpg in a blog post, an unsavory third party could start regularly trying to access…
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Keyring River: A new WordPress theme to complement Keyring Social Importers
It’s no secret that I use Keyring and Keyring Social Importers to import my activity on third-party services into a WordPress blog. All of my Facebook posts and photos, Twitter updates, foursquare checkins, and Reddit comments and submissions are archived in a single location; this makes it simple to see a snapshot of my online…
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Import your Reddit activity into WordPress
I try to maintain a copy of all of my social media activity in a single WordPress-powered archive. Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, Reddit, Usenet, chat logs: all searchable in one place via a single search box. Or, I can just scroll back in time, using Jetpack’s Infinite Scroll module. It’s heavenly. To import my activity from…
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Import your chat transcripts into WordPress
Problem: You have years’ worth of chat (AIM/MSN/Adium/IRC) transcripts saved on your computer, and you’d love to stroll down memory lane and reread some of them, but how? Manually open each one in your browser or chat program?? There’s got to be a better way! Solution: Install IM-porter, the WordPress plugin that imports your instant…
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Export your Facebook posts to WordPress
I’m a big proponent of owning the data that you create. I use WordPress (of course) wherever I blog, and I use the Keyring Social Importers plugin to make backup copies of my Twitter updates and Foursquare checkins. And as of today, I am also syncing my Facebook updates back to a private WordPress blog…
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PiePress. Or, WordPie.
+ = For previous adventures in carving logos into food, see: ‘Scape-o-lantern.
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Inline Preview Plugin for WordPress
Update: Inline Preview has been intentionally abandoned as of WordPress 4.9.8. {{ the_content }
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Decade
What software is being conceived right now that, in ten years, will fundamentally alter the landscape of the Web? Who is hacking on a personal project that will eventually be used by millions of people? Asked ten years ago, the answers to these questions would be WordPress and Matt Mullenweg & Mike Little. I’m not…
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Work with me here.
No really, work with me.
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New WordPress Theme: Clean and Sober
All the good theme names are taken.
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Formategory: A WordPress Plugin Four Years in the Making
I didn’t spend any of that time improving the name.
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Wanted: WordPress Post Template Plugin
I’m in need of a WordPress plugin that lets you specify a template for posts based on their category. For example, I might want to postscript all of my posts about URL Fixer with a link to the most recent version, or prefix an explanation about what exactly “Mozilla” is to my Firefox posts. I…
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Feed Statistics WordPress Plugin Updated
Update: Feed Statistics has been discontinued and is no longer supported. {{ the_content }
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Feed Statistics plugin updated again
Update: Feed Statistics has been discontinued and is no longer supported. {{ the_content }
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Feed Statistics 1.2: Monitor your most popular feeds
Update: Feed Statistics has been discontinued and is no longer supported. {{ the_content }
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Feed Statistics 1.1.2 Released
Update: Feed Statistics has been discontinued and is no longer supported. {{ the_content }