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
Problem: When creating a post in WordPress, previewing your post in a separate tab can be slow and/or complicated. Solution: Show the preview right next to the editor. Inline Preview is a plugin for WordPress that adds a zoomed out preview of the current post next to the post editor when the user clicks Preview…
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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
I’ve updated the Feed Statistics WordPress Plugin (now at version 1.3.1) to be more compatible with WordPress 2.3 and to fix some bugs from the previous version’s clickthrough tracking. To install this plugin: If you installed an earlier version, download the zip file of the latest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog’s wp-content/plugins/…
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Feed Statistics plugin updated again
So, the last update to the Feed Statistics WordPress plugin left a bad taste in the mouths of more than a few people. I admit that it wasn’t my best work. However, I’ve fixed the problems in version 1.2 and have released version 1.3. No new features, but now the features from 1.2 should actually…
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Feed Statistics 1.2: Monitor your most popular feeds
I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to version 1.2; this update adds a “Top Feeds” page where you can see what the most popular feeds for your website are (e.g., main feed, category feeds, different feed formats). It shows a list of all of the feed URLs that your subscibers are requesting, and…
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Feed Statistics 1.1.2 Released
Thanks to dP’s heads-up, I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to 1.1.2 with a fix for accurate counting of subscribers via LiveJournal. To install this plugin, download the zip file of the latest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog’s wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you’re downloading it…