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

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.
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.
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.
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:
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.

Collapsible Menus for jQuery is a small jQuery plugin that I released earlier this year. From the project’s original post:
Collapsible Menus is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create a collapsible menu using nested, unordered lists.
Easy enough, right?
It’s a small plugin that’s receives very few emails, comments, and issues; however, when they arise, I try to resolve them quickly. As of today, I’ve just released Collapsible Menus 1.1.
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