Archive for Plugins
One of the these days I’m going to have to start working with AJAX. To date, I haven’t really had a need, but I’m going to get way behind the curve unless I start working with it now. I recently stumbled on a page in the WordPress Codex called AJAX in Plugins. This will be my starting point for working with AJAX and WordPress. Hopefully I can start cranking out some cool new plugins with AJAX goodness soon. Once I do, I’ll blog with some more details about what hurdles, if any, I faced when developing WordPress plugins with AJAX support.
This time I have a plugin for the masses. WP Easy Uploader will make any WordPress user’s life easier. No longer will you have to rely on FTP to upload new plugins, themes, or random files. Now you can take care of those tasks quickly and easily from the admin screen of WordPress.
For full details, check out WP Easy Uploader’s release page.
Time to release another public plugin into the wild. This plugin is a bit different in that it has nothing to do with how your site looks or operates. As a matter of fact, no one will even know that you have it, but you can rest well knowing that it is just a click away in the admin menu. For you see, WP Developer Assistant is a plugin for developers.
Now some of you may wonder what a developer needs a plugin for. Well, there are lots of reasons. The main one being that it would be a lot nicer if WordPress had a few extra tools that would make a developer’s life a lot easier. For example, being able to run any needed query from inside WordPress, being able to show PHP errors without turning them on for everyone, or uploading files and extracting archives anywhere in the site would be great tools to have, but WordPress doesn’t have anything like that… Until now!
If you are a WordPress developer, you need this plugin. You can find the full details on the WP Developer Assistant page.
Many clients have shared concerns with me about using the built-in Update Services feature of WordPress to automatically ping services like Ping-O-Matic. Why are they concerned? They have heard horror stories from fellow bloggers or read random stories you can find on the web about WordPress sites being blocked from these sites due to a variety of different reasons. Unfortunately, there is much more information out there about the problems and very little information about solutions. In this post, I aim to address the major concerns and provide solutions where solutions are needed. Continue reading “Can pinging get your WordPress site blocked?”