As a fun data visualisation experiment – and as a way to practice my new found interest in Node.js – I decided to plot on a map of the world all the people who contributed to the recent release of WordPress 3.6. The map can be seen further down, but first a brief description of how I… Continue reading WordPress Contributors on a World Map
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A History of WordPress Contributors
I thought I’d run some stats on WordPress contributors over the years. The only contributor stats I have are the ones published in each release announcement on wordpress.org, so I’ve put these stats together myself from those lists. Unfortunately the release announcements have only listed the contributors since version 2.9 (June 2009). If anyone wants… Continue reading A History of WordPress Contributors
WordPress Plugin: Pocket Read It Later Links
Latest version: – Released : Description
Saving Post Meta Field Revisions in WordPress
If your plugin or theme uses custom post meta fields then you may want to store revisions to these fields when a post revision is saved. It’s easy to do. For each of our meta fields, we’ll need to do three things: Store a revision of the meta field when a post is saved Revert… Continue reading Saving Post Meta Field Revisions in WordPress
WordPress Plugin: Pretty Media
Update: This functionality now exists in WordPress itself. There’s no longer any need for this plugin. I’ve just published a small plugin which makes the Media screen in WordPress prettier using just CSS. You can download/pull/fork it on GitHub.
Basic Authentication with the WordPress HTTP API
Basic Authentication (or BasicAuth) is not natively handled with the WordPress HTTP API. This means when you’re using functions such as wp_remote_get() and wp_remote_post() there’s no immediately obvious way to send Basic Authentication headers with your request. It would be great to pass username and password parameters to these functions, but it’s not there. Fear… Continue reading Basic Authentication with the WordPress HTTP API
WordPress Plugin: Feed Thumbnails
Latest version: – Released Description Installation Download This plugin requires WordPress version or later. Version ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!
WordPress Plugin: Disable Theme Updates
Latest version: – Released All the information for this plugin can be found over at the WordPress Plugin Directory: Disable WordPress Theme Updates. Don’t forget you can also disable WordPress core updates and disable WordPress plugin updates too.
WordPress Plugin: Logout Password Protected Posts
Latest version: – Released Description Installation FAQ Download Version ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!
WordPress Plugin: User Switching
Latest version: – Released : Description FAQ Download This plugin requires WordPress version or later. Download the plugin on WordPress.org. Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!