Author: Joe Dolson

Smart Tweeting with WP to Twitter

January 10, 2013

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Topics: Web Development, WordPress.

WP to Twitter is a time-saving tool for sharing your WordPress-composed content with your Twitter followers. But creating a smart Tweet is different from authoring great content: when you’ve only got 140 characters, you’ll want to think strategically. There’s always a compromise between saving time and authoring something unique. The maximum in time savings comes from using the template tools in WP to Twitter to generate the text of every Tweet. An effective formula using your post title, your URL […]

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Introduction to Web Semantics

December 27, 2012

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Topics: Semantics, Web Development, Web standards.

Style is important. There is no debate around the proposition that people want a website that looks good. This is for a very good reason – an attractive website will draw in your customers, build their confidence in what you can provide for them, and keep them engaged with your website. But a great website can’t just look pretty. You can create a gorgeous website with nothing but a single large image. This can be beautiful graphic design – but […]

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The power of the personal story

December 18, 2012

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Topics: Accessibility.

Recently, the state of Minnesota rejected a constitutional amendment referendum that attempted to make same-sex marriage unconstitutional in the state of Minnesota. Much of the reason that this amendment was defeated has to do with societal change — but there was also a change in how the issue was discussed that is believed to have had a beneficial impact on the vote. That change was a move from focusing on civil rights as a method to convince people to vote […]

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WP to Twitter: The next step forward

December 11, 2012

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Topics: Web Development, WordPress.

I don’t worry too much when I’m planning on adding a new feature to WP to Twitter – most people won’t notice, many won’t care, those who find it useful will be happy about it. But right now I’m thinking about removing a feature, and that is a much more sensitive issue. Specifically, I want to remove support for URL (Uniform Resource Locator) shortening. The main argument for keeping URL shortener support is to provide short URL statistics: using a […]

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WP Tweets PRO Updated – Upgrade now!

November 28, 2012

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Topics: Blogging, WordPress.

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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