In WP to Twitter version 3.3.1, I’m adding a control to extend the allowed length of your Tweets using WP to Twitter. This post is to explain that feature, because as much as there’s been a lot published claiming that Twitter has expanded posts to 280 characters, that’s not strictly accurate. Strictly accurate matters a lot in programming, even if your actual experience using Twitter might seem exactly right. As a result, it’s going to be a little while before […]
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Software Licensing Change
Effective immediately, all licenses for WP Tweets PRO and My Calendar: Submissions, as well as my future premium plug-in projects, will be sold on new license terms. The new license terms are compatible with the General Public Licensing model (GPL (GNU General Public License)). Until today, all licenses I sold were based on restricting the number of sites you could use the software on: either a single site license or a multi-site license. The new license removes that restriction, and […]
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TL;DR: The WP Accessibility plug-in contains features that will be useful to all WordPress sites, such as support for the longdesc attribute. Even if your theme was designed with accessibility in mind, there’s a place for the WP Accessibility plug-in on your site. The most common question I get about the WP Accessibility plug-in is “When do I need this plug-in?” Fact is, most people don’t know whether their themes are accessible. Further, it’s hard to pin down which aspects […]
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My Calendar is a bit of a monster plug-in. It’s not totally ridiculous – but there are a couple of features that I added years ago and have personally never actually used. Specifically, the user-specific features. You can configure settings in My Calendar that allow your users to set their location and timezone in their user profile, so that when they view My Calendar, they’ll automatically see events in their location and/or with times adjusted to their timezone. Inconveniently (and […]
Continue reading “My Calendar User’s Features – Does anybody use them?” »Using custom template tags with WP to Twitter
Yesterday, I received a support request asking about how somebody could parse a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) out of their post title and post that as the shortened URL attached to their Tweet. They always used the same format to add the URL — <a href="http://thedomain.com">The Title</a>. Well. Not a standard use, certainly — but it is something that you can do using WP to Twitter, with a little custom code. So this is a good time to write up […]
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