Category: Projects (Page 6 of 32)

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

View WordPress Page Templates in the Admin

December 8, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Three years ago, I published a small plugin both on GitHub and in the plugin repository that made it possible view WordPress page templates in the admin.

I called it Page Template Dashboard – naming things isn’t easy, and even when you do, it’s obviously not great – but WordPress has changed a lot in three years.

View WordPress Page Templates with Page Template Dashboard

Remember when WordPress looked like this?

In three years, a lot can change in your personal life too, and this makes it hard to work on personal projects. But when you can steal a few hours – usually late at night – it makes it possible to revisit and update projects like this.

So last night, I release the latest version of Page Template Dashboard.

A Critical Update to Scheduled Post Shortcut?

July 20, 2016 / Tom

Based on active installs, ratings, and the like, Scheduled Post Shortcut isn’t what you’d call a popular plugin. Far from it, actually. But I’m okay with that.

Remember that when Eric and I first started releasing these plugins, the goal was not only to create small plugins that solved problems we were experiencing as bloggers, but also to do so in a way that made it as simple as possible for others to use in their day-to-day writing.

And since there are problems that he and I still experience, we continue to update the plugin.

Scheduled Post Shortcut for WordPress

June 9, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Scheduled Post Shortcut for WordPress is officially available in the WordPress Plugin Repository and is the second plugin that’s officially available via Pressware.

A few months ago, Easier Excerpts was a plugin that was released to help make it just a little bit easier to manage excerpts when composing blog posts.

Scheduled Post Shortcut is another plugin that attempts to stay in the same vein of simplicity while also making it easier to streamline the publishing process.

But what does that mean and what’s the story behind the plugin?

Would You Be Interested in Premium Content?

April 14, 2016 / Tom

Premium content is one of those things that means different things to different people whenever it comes to blogging. Sometimes, people think it refers to a pay-to-play forum; others believe that it has to do with some “I’ll give you my email address in exchange for your e-book.”

I’m not knocking any of these approaches, but that’s not what I’m trying to do. I’ll come back to this momentarily, though.

If you’ve been visiting this site in your browser for the last few days, you’ve likely seen something like this:

Would You Be Interested in Premium Content?

And back when I first launched The First Version, the pop-up worked quite well. In fact, this dialog is doing a great job generating leads, too. However, more than a few of you have expressed interested in premium content while simultaneously expressing frustrations with this approach.

So in exchange for disabling the dialog, I thought I’d write a post and share an opportunity to sign up for more information in the context of its page.

Easier Excerpts For WordPress: 1.1.0

April 12, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, we released Easier Excerpts 1.1.0 into the WordPress plugin repository.

Easier Excerpts 1.1.0

In short, this update includes a lot of updates to the code of the plugin without a lot of user-facing functionality. But it does lay the foundation for future updates to this plugin along with how we’re going to be building plugins that we’ll be releasing moving forward.