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Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
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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.
About a year ago, I launched WP Social Icons – a premium plugin based on Tipsy Social Icons that attempted to make it easy to include social icons on any WordPress-powered site.
It offered the ability to sort your icons, upload your own icons, change the size, adjust the orientation, and so on.
WPCandy covered some of my thoughts on developing it, and I had the pleasure of joining Jeffro on the WordPress Weekly Podcast to talk about it.
On top of that, I gained experience on what it was like to release a small, commercial product into the WordPress Marketplace and how it compares to the free version.
Overall, the plugin was a success. But as of today, I’m officially ending development on WP Social Icons.
This version is a major update but if you're interested in skipping most of the information, jump down to what's new in this version.
In January 2011, Atlanta was hit with a major snow storm that had many of us hanging out inside of our homes for days at a time. To say that I had cabin fever would be an understatement.
During that time, I wrote a really simple social icons plugin for WordPress. Because I used Jason Frame’s excellent jQuery plugin called Tipsy, I aptly named the plugin Tipsy Social Icons.
Since it was first released, I’ve done much more WordPress development and this plugin wasn’t up to par with my usual standards, so I’m updating it and am officially releasing Tipsy Social Icons 3.0.
Single Post Message For WordPress is a plugin for easily adding short messages in the top of your posts and displaying them in both the browser and in RSS feeds.
I started working on this plugin a couple of weeks ago and have been dogfooding it throughout development – here’s an example of the plugin in action.
Since being self-employed, I’ve divided my time between building applications for others and as working as a developer for 8BIT. Over the past couple of years, we’ve released a handful of WordPress Themes, but roughly a year ago began to narrowly focus our efforts on our flagship product: Standard.
Yesterday, the team launched Standard 3.0 For WordPress – a product that has been approximately nine months in development. As far as my professional career is concerned, I’m extraordinarily proud of what we’ve accomplished.
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