Rian Rietveld resigned from the leadership of the WordPress Accessibility team today. When I first started talking about Gutenberg, I touted it as a future for creating a new, more accessible experience for both authors and website visitors. I was very optimistic – nervous, and aware that this was going to be a challenge, but optimistic. Part of what I hoped for has happened – but far from all of it. There are good things about Gutenberg. Monitoring the hierarchy […]
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WP Tweets PRO Updated – Upgrade now!
The new version of my PRO extension for WP to Twitter is now available. The update fixes a variety of minor bugs, creates some clarifying error messages – but most importantly adds some great new features. In version 1.3.0, you can now: Schedule a Custom Tweet Schedule a Tweet for any time and associate it with any post you’ve published. Simple and straightforward: you can either send it as straight text — what you wrote, and nothing but what you […]
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When building WordPress sites, I’ve often been in need of adding a call to action with a striking appearance into the site. Working by myself, that’s really no problem – but when it needs to be added into client-created posts and Pages, it can get to be a hassle — and cause long-term problems. It’s not really effective or efficient to teach all the intricacies of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to every client. If you’ve created a cool CTA format […]
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Download My Calendar Buy My Calendar: Submissions It’s difficult to decide exactly when to increment a major version number. In truth, My Calendar 2.0 is not much more different from 1.11.x than 1.11.x was from 1.10.x; but the difference between version 1.0 and 2.0 is truly striking. In fact, there may not be more than a few dozen lines of code in common between the two versions. The main purpose behind the rewriting involved in My Calendar 2.0 was about […]
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Twitter is currently in the much-lambasted and disruptive process of making big changes to their API (Application Programming Interface). As the author of a WordPress plug-in which only exists with any value due to its ability to use the Twitter API, I have to be pretty attentive to these kinds of changes. The API changes probably won’t have any significant impact on WP to Twitter or on most users of WP to Twitter. Technically, I’ve needed to change the name […]
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