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Ending Development on Author Admin

August 15, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For those of you who are interested, you can download the plugin though I no longer maintain this.

Roughly four months ago, I released a premium plugin that aimed to improve author administration in WordPress. Today, I’m officially ending development on Author Admin..

Similar to WP Social Icons, I’m more concerned with narrowly focusing my efforts on projects that are more closely aligned with the problems I’d like to attempt to solve.

That said, there are a few things that I did learn while working on and maintaining the project.

Understanding user_trailingslashit in WordPress

August 15, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

To skip the background on this issue, then you can skip down to the technical explanation.

While working on the latest version of Standard For WordPress.com, Michael – who covers QA at 8BIT – caught an interesting problem with how our breadcrumb navigation and archive page templates were working (or weren’t working):

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Building Comment Images For WordPress

August 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I shared some of my thoughts on building Single Post Message, I received some good feedback via Twitter and Email from others who enjoyed reading about the work that went into building the plugin.

Though my approach to this particular plugin is different than that of Single Post Message, I thought I’d do the same for this just to share a slightly different perspective.

So here’s how I went about building Comment Images for WordPress:

Comment Images For WordPress

August 14, 2012 / Tom

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Comment Images For WordPress

Comment Images For WordPress is a plugin that – at the risk of sounding redundant! – allows readers to upload images to their comments.

Ultimately, it gives your community the ability to share a single image or illustration to support whatever they have to say.

Why WordPress Themes and Plugins Are Software

August 13, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve shared my thoughts on WordPress as an application framework, but I think that simply making a case for how the core application can be used for web applications isn’t enough to help others see that it’s a viable platform.

Lately, I’ve had several conversations with others who are skeptical (and rightly so). Themes are often viewed as “skins” for WordPress and plugins are often viewed as little ways to add new features to a blog. If anything, I’d say that one could make a stronger case for plugins being software rather than themes.

But to a point, I disagree. There are several reasons why I think both WordPress themes and plugins are software.