Visitor Movies for WordPress

Tagged WordPress plugin

Did you ever want to know what exactly your visitors are doing on your site? Watch them!

A client of mine wanted a plugin to log what users type into forms. I kind of didn’t see the point at first. But a few days later I was a little annoyed that there was apparently no free alternative to websites like clixpy, clicktale and similar services. (more…)

Convert WordPress pages to posts

Tagged WordPress Deutsch

I like WordPress, but I don’t like the WordPress page system at all. That’s why I recently converted all my plugin pages to posts. My main reasons for doing so were: (more…)

Get WordPress comments outside of WordPress

Tagged WordPress

Sometimes you want to access WordPress content outside of WordPress. There are various pages that explain how to this and it’s really easy to do as well. What I tried to do was a little different though, I wanted to print comments outside of WordPress.

To my surprise wp_list_comments() didn’t output anything inside my custom loop. It turned out that $wp_query->comments was NULL, which I think is rather odd. I would have expected it to be defined like in a normal loop inside WordPress. However, the fix is trivial:
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Custom Avatars For Comments

custom-avatars

This plugin was initially written for a client and he agreed to open-source it. Thanks, John! Your visitors will be able to choose from the avatars you upload to your website for each and every comment they make. This can make leaving a comment on your blog more fun and more interesting for the visitors. See the comment form at the bottom for an example.
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My plugins featured in Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer issue 164

In issue 164 of Web Designer Magazine by Imagine publishing there is a feature article on WordPress plug-ins: Electrify Your Blog: The Top 20 WordPress Plug-ins for the Next-gen Blogger. I’m very happy to see that they listed two of my plugins in it. (more…)

Using git for WordPress development

Tagged git

git is a powerful revision control system. It is a distributed system. This means that you can commit, create branches or tags on your local hard drive without any network connection. Read more about git on the project’s website, there’s also great documentation there. (more…)