Category: Projects (Page 7 of 33)

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

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.

Pressware Plugins For a Better Blogging Experience

March 21, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Pressware Plugins is something that I’ve been talking about in a few different posts before this one. I’ve spoken of the project in the following posts:

And I’ve also talked about the first, free plugin we’ve launched: Easier Excerpts.

As of today, Eric and I have officially launched the Pressware Plugins storefront, so I thought it’d be a good idea to talk about what the purpose of the project is, what you can expect, and what’s in the pipeline of work.