Category: Projects (Page 25 of 32)

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

Comment Tweets For WordPress

November 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Comment Tweets For WordPress

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been recording a premium screencast for Envato in which I share how to build a WordPress plugin from the ground up using professional development techniques such as object-oriented programming, proper use of Actions and Filters, LESS, CodeKit, and more.

While working on the screencast, one of the things that I wanted to do was to showcase exactly what it’s like to build something from the ground up, release it, and then experience the various comments, support issues, and so on. After all, that is the norm for releasing projects to the public.

The result of all of this is Comment Tweets For WordPress.

Redactor Image Uploads For WordPress

October 5, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a web application that’s being built on top of WordPress.

One of the requirements dictated the users should be able to have rich editing from the front end after being logged in. This includes being able to do the usual bold, italic, strikes, and link, as well as images and videos.

Redactor.js is a fantastic jQuery plugin that brings front-end editing to any website or web application, but implementing Redactor JS image upload and WordPress proved to be a bit of a challenge specifically because I wanted to keep all images organized in the standard wp-content/uploads directory.

So, while working on said project, I also generalized the script a bit and created Redactor Image Upload For WordPress.

It’s a short, simple title, right? Right-ish.

Introducing #notes For Capturing Blogging Notes

October 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Occasionally, I share some of the work that my team at 8BIT has been working on. Up until recently, we were focused heavily on Standard for both self-hosted blogs and for WordPress.com.

The thing is, we’re not trying to be another theme shop. In fact, our ultimate goal is to try to make the best products possible for people who consider themselves to be or who are aspiring to be digital publishers.

This may include developers and designers, but more often than not, this includes people who care about sharing their thoughts, opinions, views, and general words about any given topic.

And we want to empower them.

The challenge, though, is that we don’t always have our digital devices with us, but for anyone who has blogged for a significant amount of time realizes that inspiration or ideas can hit at any time.

To that end, we saw a need to help others take blogging notes. Friday, we officially announced, released, and began shipping #notes. Continue reading

Comment Images For WordPress 1.5

September 6, 2012 / Tom

Comments are closed on this post. The official discussion thread can be found on the project's post.

Comment Images

Yesterday, I published another update to Comment Images For WordPress. This was a minor update, but it covered an issue that several users had contacted me about with regards to how images were rendering in their comment feed.

Category Sticky Post For WordPress

August 27, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Category Sticky Post

Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives.

This means that if you have a set of articles under one category, you can mark one to always appear at the top of the category archive.