Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Tipsy Social Icons is a free WordPress plugin that I’ve been maintaining for a few months. When I initially released it, the primary goal was to make it as easy as possible to integrate multiple social networking icons into your WordPress blog.
Over time, I’ve received a lot of great comments, emails, and feedback about the plugin all of which I appreciate. As such, I decided to create a premium version of the plugin of which I’m proud to announce: WP Social Icons.
I’ve released a few updates to Tipsy Social Icons since I last updated this category.
Note that this project is no longer maintained.
In a number of recent projects, I’ve been needing to provide an overlay of sorts over an entire page or a number of elements on a page. Unfortunately, most options ship with extra weight – they include support for modal dialogs or some type of lightbox overlay all of which was overkill for what I needed.
To that end, I ended up writing a lightweight plugin that makes adding overlays trivially easy. Continue reading
I just published a quick update to my Tipsy Social Icon widget:
After sharing the widget on a couple of sites (such as Forrst), I received a great, candid feedback.
As such, I just published a quick update to my Tipsy Social Icon widget: Continue reading
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