Category: Projects (Page 8 of 33)

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

Easier Excerpts For WordPress

March 17, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Easier Excerpts for WordPress is a simple plugin, the first for Pressware Plugins actually, that we recently released.

When you think about combining the tediousness of blogging couple with the proverbial low-hanging fruit, this seemed like a natural choice for a first product. Plus, it falls in line with our goal of trying to help make a better blogging experience.

But if you’re like me, then you like reading some of the back-stories that go into projects like this. So here’s some more information on the plugin, specifically for you bloggers, and then a back-story as to why we chose it, how we chose it, and what’s up next.

Preparing To Launch Pressware Plugins

March 8, 2016 / Tom

Pressware Plugins is something that I talked about at length a few weeks ago.

Pressware Plugins For a Better Blogging Experience

Maybe this goes on too much promotion for it, but we’re finally getting ready to launch the site – I’m excited – and I want to make sure that I’ve taken all available opportunities to share things on which we’ve been working.

The short of it is this:

We’re going to be launching the site later this week, and we’re going to be contacting everyone who has subscribed to the mailing list about it first.

If you’re interested, head over to the site and sign up.

Pressware Plugins For A Better Blogging Experience

February 9, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Creating a better blogging experience with WordPress can mean different things to do different people.

I think experts, developers, etc., have a leg up on the rest who want to have a streamlined workflow for how they draft content, respond to comments and generally, work within WordPress more so than the average blogger does.

Maybe I’m way off base. But when I see plugins like Postmatic who are aiming to improve commenting within WordPress and I see projects like Stuttter aiming to create single, useful tools for people who use WordPress, I can’t help but wonder:

I believe something about WordPress affords having a better blogging experience. But what might that look like?

Title Capitalization For WordPress 1.1.3

June 17, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

A little over a year ago, I published a small plugin for WordPress to GitHub – Title Capitalization for WordPress.

Title Capitalization For WordPress

The idea behind the plugin is easy:

Properly capitalizes post titles and heading elements in the post content.

Ultimately, it’s meant to make sure that when you enter content – specifically headings – the work will be presented in the best light possible since it will pass through a formatter than properly capitalizes your text and what not based on a set of rules.

Though it hasn’t been updated in sometime, Andy Fragen was kind enough to submit a pull request that I finally got around to merging and to discussing (sorry Andy!) and thought I’d detail it here.

What’s Up With Comment Images For WordPress?

June 2, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Every now and then I’ll get an email or a tweet that asks me something about Comment Images – a plugin for WordPress that initially wrote sometime ago. The plugin is active on 6,000+ installs and has 4.7/5 rating so I’m generally happy with the reception of the plugin.

Over time, however, I’ve become busier and busier with Pressware. I’ve talked about this in a number of different posts (such as those around the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate and Mayer) and I probably need to talk more about what I’m doing at Pressware that’s beginning to take more and more of my time, but that’s content for another post on another day.

I responded that I no longer maintained the plugin, but also realized that I’ve yet to actually take the time to explain what’s happened with it.