Category: Projects (Page 22 of 32)

Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.

WP Audio Player Plugin 1.4 Now Available

February 12, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

WP Audio Player – my plugin for easily embedding audio in your WordPress posts (and the first plugin I’ve ever open sourced on GitHub) just received a major update.

WP Audio Player

Though can read all about the updates on the plugin homepage, I thought I’d share some of the updates that went into this particular release, specifically from a developer’s perspective.

Page Template Dashboard For WordPress

January 31, 2013 / Tom

A new version of this plugin has been released and I've made a new primary post.

View Page Template

Page Template Dashboard is a simple WordPress plugin that makes it easy to see which template each page is using without actually having to load up the post editor screen.

WP Audio Player Now on GitHub

January 11, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this week, I released WP Audio Player – a simple plugin that makes it easy to embed audio files into your WordPress posts.

The plugin was graciously evaluated by Pippin Williamson on his personal blog, and several people on Twitter asked that I place the plugin on GitHub so that they can contribute.

As much as I am a fan of the open source model, I’ve never actually placed any of my plugins on GitHub – I just stick with the Subversion repository and managed bug reports and feature requests as they come in.

But I thought placing WP Audio Player on GitHub would be a fun – it’s helped my Boilerplates, so I figured it’d bode well for this plugin, too.

WP Audio Player – Easily Embed Audio in Your WordPress Posts

January 7, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As we’ve begun regularly publishing Hello Dolly and I’ve started running a few podcasts on Yet Another Blogging Podcast, I was finding the process a bit cumbersome for regularly embedding podcasts into our posts.

To be clear, I’ve been using the jQuery plugin by Codrops to embed audio, but it requires that I hop back and forth between the visual and the text editor when drafting posts.

In order to streamline the process a bit, I wrapped the jQuery plugin to make an easy to use WordPress audio player plugin.

Introducing A Podcast About Blogging

December 31, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Though I’m not planning to venture into doing any type of video blogging on discussing WordPress, there were a number of comments that I received on both of those posts as well as my post on three things I’ve learned from blogging that posed several interesting questions:

“I was hoping you could explain how you made that step and perhaps even give as an insight into your process.”
“Things like how you collect post ideas, how much time you spend writing, how difficult it was to get to and maintain this writing schedule and how much it has helped your career.”
“How much time you spend writing vs. “doing real work” (development)?”
“Do you even put aside your developer’s hat for a while and do nothing but write?”
“It’s very difficult to find things worth writing about and to continue despite little to no positive reinforcement.”
“Where do you find inspiration from to write? Do you browse any sites like Quora or Stack Overflow to get a sense of what’s popular, etc?”

After giving this some thought, I’ve decided to run a miniseries – for lack of a better term – of podcasts that talk about blogging, what I’ve learned from doing it, my process, and a couple of other tips I have for both aspiring and budding bloggers.