I may have a low threshold for managing information, but I find that with seven plug-ins in the WordPress repository it’s a struggle to keep my local information on those plug-ins always up to date. I have a page here about each plug-in, and it’s not uncommon that I’ll publish an update and go to check my local information just to find that my own page on that plug-in is six months out of date… One way to keep that […]
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WP Accessibility version 1.2.0 now available!
The new version of WP Accessibility has just been released. Updates include the inclusion of Chris Rodriguez’s a11y toolbar, as previously announced and support for a custom WordPress administrative stylesheet. The first item, the accessibility toolbar, falls into a category of accessibility I rarely pursue: the front-end accessibility widget. I’ve written (negatively) about the concept before, in my article When More is Less. Having previously opposed accessibility widgets, I wanted to talk a little about why I think including this […]
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For my next (still forthcoming) version of my WordPress calendar plugin, My Calendar, I had a need to add custom screen options to a couple of editing screens. Now, there’s a great tutorial on adding screen options by Chris Marslender that I found very useful. It is, however, incomplete. Now, if what you want to do is add one basic control, that tutorial is definitely going to get you where you need to go. It’s simple, straightforward, and accurate. However, […]
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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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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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