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…)

Shortcodes, include CSS and JS only on the correct blog pages

Tagged WordPress

Not too long ago I wanted to add a new plugin to my blog. During various tests I noticed something quite shocking: at least one of the plugins insisted on loading it’s CSS and jquery on every page of my blog. A little more testing showed me that many plugins do the same. (more…)

Delete pending WordPress comments

Tagged WordPress plugin

With this plugin you can easily delete all pending WordPress comments. It’s quite useful if you’re the victim of a spammer attack.
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Zero Conf Mail

Tagged WordPress plugin

It took me quite some time to check a few existing contact forms and I didn’ t like any of them. No, I don’t want you to load jquery on every page of my blog. I want it localized, pretty please. Oh, and I want this JavaScript onfocus/onblur effect I wrote about. And why do I have to do any configuration at all anyway?
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Creating a valid WordPress theme

Tagged WordPress Deutsch

Recently, I’ve been checking out some of the blogs that link back to me because they use one of my plugins. And it seems like a lot of them are using buggy, incorrect templates. It looks like many WordPress theme developers don’t read the theme development checklist. (more…)