As you may have already heard, Twitter has announced that they will cease support for free access to the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface). The sole information published about this to this point is a short Twitter thread; if you’ve read that, you know about as much as I do about what’s going to happen. Anything else is probably rumors. There are existing published costs for access to the Twitter Search API, but those are very separate from the rest […]
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My Calendar Pro: Ready for testing
My Calendar Pro version 3.0 is now in beta, and in testing. It’s been in the works now for six months. Originally, this was intended as version 2.3; I was expecting to add a couple of features, and then get moving towards the next release. But in developing some of the key new features, I realized that I needed to do some significant rebuilding. The changes are now at a point where I need to consider this a major release, […]
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WP to Twitter was my first plugin. I released it in 2008, as a project originally paired with a Pierre Far’s custom URL (Uniform Resource Locator) shortener, Cli.gs. (Now long gone.) I’ve maintained it steadily for 15 years. In 2012, I added the premium add-on WP Tweets Pro, so that I could afford to continue to update the plug-in. At it’s height, it had about 130,000 installations. That user base has since fallen to about 30,000. The decrease has a […]
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Since adding the notification in My Calendar 3.4 that editing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is going away, a few people have had questions about what’s happening. Users want to know how this change impacts them, and why I’m doing it. So I should talk about that a little. This is a significant change, but don’t think of it as an alarming update. I’ll first discuss what happens with CSS in the plugin right now and why that’s a problem for […]
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It’s nearly a month later than I’d hoped for, but I’ve just released My Calendar version 3.4.0. As with every major release, there are some significant changes in this update. A lot of the big changes are under the hood. The last release updated the processes of creating and administering events, but this release is more subtle. This release refactored how settings are saved in the database, added a couple new options for viewing the calendar on the front end, […]
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