After the Deadline for Google Chrome

After the Deadline for Google Chrome

After the Deadline is a great plugin for WordPress. We wrote about it late last year, and we’re still really excited to see where this project goes for WordPress. This particular release isn’t necessarily for WordPress, but it’s for Google Chrome — and I feel like it would be useful for you if you’re a …

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WordPress 3.0 Beta 2

WordPress 3.0 Beta 2

WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 has been released. If you’ve been following the news of WordPress 3.0, you will know that it is a huge release for WordPress. It’s the milestone of merging WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) into a single platform. This is by far one of the best things that has happened to WordPress, …

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Geotagging with WordPress

Geotagging with WordPress

The Automattic team recently announced the release of the WordPress plugin named “Geolocation.” This plugin is valuable for those folks who create posts from their mobile devices, like their iPhone or Blackberry. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like: But I see two issues with it. When I tested it out, it first didn’t …

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Essential Plugins and Optimization Presentation

Essential Plugins and Optimization Presentation

This weekend, I presented on Essential Plugins and Optimization at WordCamp Orange County. Here is my presentation. Any questions or comments or plugins that you suggest, please leave them in the comments. Thanks! Essential Plugins by Jonathan Dingman

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Using Facebook’s “Like” Plugin with WordPress

Using Facebook’s “Like” Plugin with WordPress

Facebook just announced that they are launching the “like” plugin for any page around the web.

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Announcing Tweeted, Embed Tweets from Twitter

Announcing Tweeted, Embed Tweets from Twitter

Ever run into the problem of wanting to include or embed a tweet in a blog post or a page, but you don’t want to take a screenshot or copy the tweet? There’s a plugin for that. Introducing the ‘Tweeted‘ plugin. Simple put… you wrap the Twitter status of any user in the shortcode ‘tweeted’ …

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WordPress License Plates

WordPress License Plates

So a few weeks ago I picked up my new plates. WRDPRSS. I’m really excited about them The general response I’ve gotten from my friends and family is “you’re such a nerd” and you now what, that’s exactly right, I certainly am a nerd Here are what the plates look like: And one of my …

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Customize the Excerpt by Word Count

Customize the Excerpt by Word Count

Here’s a nice little bit of code that can come in very handy. If you’re looking to limit the_excerpt() or get_the_excerpt() by a specific word count, here is a great code snippet that you can throw into functions.php that will do just that. [sourcecode lang="php"]function my_excerpt_length($text){ return 20; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘my_excerpt_length’); function new_excerpt_more($more) { return …

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Matt Mullenweg on WordPress [VIDEO]

Matt Mullenweg on WordPress [VIDEO]

Here’s a great interview with Matt Mullenweg and he discusses his thoughts on WordPress 3.0 and then goes into some Q&A from the WPGirls at WPNight in Sweden.

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Real-time RSS Updates via PubSubHubbub

Real-time RSS Updates via PubSubHubbub

The latest blog innovation is how RSS interacts with subscribers. This round of innovation is push instead of pull. The way RSS has worked is that the RSS client will pull the website each time, asking if there were any updates. PubSubHubbub changes that. Instead of asking, it’s now told. This video explains it really …

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