Plugins Archives

P2 Header Ad – v1.3 released

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I’ve just released a new version of my P2 Header Ad plugin, adding the following features: added translation readiness added German Translation added Spanish Translation (thanks to Andrew Kurtis from WebHostingHub) verified WordPress 3.8 compatibility You can get the latest version simply by using the WordPress updates (under Dashbaord – Updates), or download it from … Read more

How to internationalise and translate your WordPress Plugin

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Today I got a lovely request from Andrew over at WebHostingHub.com who asked if he could translate my P2 Header Ad plugin into Spanish. “Of course”, I thought – and then I realised that I knew not much about how to get a plugin translation ready. I knew POEdit of course, but how to make … Read more

Introducing The P2 Header Ad Plugin

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P2 Header Ad IconI always loved Automattic’s P2 theme: it’s one of the most innovative ideas for blogging I could find. I’m using it on several of my notebook websites, including this one. I’ve been tweaking P2 for quite some time, and one thing I wanted to do is display an advert inside the P2 header.

As you may know, P2 doesn’t like child themes very much, so I wrote a future proof solution as this handy plugin.

P2 Header Ad let’s you display an advert of your choice inside the header. And when the theme is updated, your advert stays in place. Neat, huh?

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Introducing Zen Dash

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zen-treeIt is my pleasure to share with you my latest WordPress Plugin: Zen Dash. It allows you to selectively hide those Dashboard Widgets, Menu Items, Update Notifications and even Footer Links.

Inspired by Joseph Lowery and my recent post about how to do this in code, I wanted to create the same functionality without users having to use code.

After a few days of coding I really got into it and added several other features, including some nice jQuery UI tabs.

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Disk Space Pie Chart – Version 0.5 released

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I’ve just released a small update for my Disk Space Pie Chart plugin for WordPress. The new version addresses the following minor issues: Fixed Division by Zero bug (Thanks, Jure!) Tweaked some colours to better blend with WordPress Core Added MySQL Server Version The update was inspired by Jure di Mephit who very kindly gave … Read more

How to style the Tumblr Widget Sidebar Plugin

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tumblr-logoI’ve been recently using Tumblr more to post sketches from all kinds of devices, and naturally I wanted to embed them in some of my websites’ sidebars.

I found the extremely helpful Tumblr Widget plugin by Gabriel Roth for this: install, drag in the widget add Tumblr URL. Done!

I wanted my images to be in a size that the widget didn’t offer, so I did some tweaking – perhaps it’ll help if you’re in a similar situation.

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Disk Space Pie Chart – Version 0.4

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I’ve committed a new version of Disk Space Pie Chart today. This maintenance release fixes a display bug in the Dashbaord Widget in WordPress 3.2. Thanks to Dan from IFSA Butler for bringing this to my attention. While I was at it I’ve also fixed some of the internal workings of this plugin: Fixed dashboard … Read more

Snapshot Backup Plugin for WordPress

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I’ve just finished writing a new WordPress Plugin which creates a Snapshot Backup of your entire website: that’s your Database, current WP Core, all your Themes, Plugins and Uploads. The resulting single archive file is then uploaded to an FTP repository of your choice.

Peace of mind included 😉

Download from the official WordPress Repository

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