Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress Plugins’

PHP Performance Profiling With APD On Windows

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

When writing code, its important to keep system performance in mind. No matter how useful your software is, if it places too much stress on the server, it won’t be used. How can you tell if your code is efficient? Well, experience helps, but it also pays to have good tools. (more…)

Roundup - Life, Ratings, Tags, Plugin News, Alexa Milestone

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It’s been almost two weeks since my last post. Here, I explain why and run through some of the other things that have been happening behind the scenes here at More Than Scratch The Surface. (more…)

New WordPress Plugin - FeedEntryHeader

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I recently discovered that my feed was being scraped. It’s very frustrating to find your content appearing in full on another website - so I decided to do something about it.

The result? A new WordPress plugin called FeedEntryHeader that allows you to add a copyright statement and a link to the original article, to the top of your feed entries. (more…)

WordPress Plugin - Simple Spam Filter Hack Available

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Recently RT from Untwisted Vortex threw down a WordPress Plugin Rewrite Challenge, asking whether I’d rewrite the Simple Spam Filter plugin from Joe Tan. RT is a fan of Simple Spam Filter but felt that some additional checks would result in more spam being caught. (more…)

WordPress 2.3 Breaks Articles Plugin - Solution

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

After my recent upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1, the Articles plugin by Alex King started showing my Articles under the wrong Categories. Fortunately, there is a solution posted on the WordPress Support site. (more…)

WordPress 2.3.1 Upgrade Completed

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I’ve been upgrading the site to WordPress 2.3.1 over the last 24 hours, so you may have noticed some strange things - beyond the normal content. :) (more…)

WordPress Plugin - DualFeeds v1.1 Released

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

I’m pleased to announce the release of DualFeeds v1.1 for WordPress.

This version includes many new features, including better support for FeedBurner, support for feed autodiscovery, improved summary feed and presentational elements to help promote your feeds. (more…)

Roundup - Plugins, Milestones and Storms

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

This is the first update / roundup style post on More Than Scratch The Surface. I originally thought I’d stick to articles, but I can now see the need to write about things that aren’t worth a full post. Expect to see these occasionally. (more…)

New WordPress Plugin To Help Slow Widgets - Maybe

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Many people have been complaining about slow loading social widgets. You know the ones! I’ve written a WordPress plugin which may help, but there are some issues related to it and I’d like some advice. I have some specific people in mind, so I’ll ping them below.

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I Got My 21 Cents…

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

22 cents actually. A day or so after enabling Google Adsense, my blog generated its first income from a click. A day later, another cent appeared. I’m not sure where the extra cent came from. It’s not from a click and it can’t be from impressions. I guess Google were just feeling generous.

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This is just a link to a project for my students. Please ignore.

WordPress Plugins by Stephen Cronin
DualFeeds: Offer both full text & summary feeds. Let your readers choose!
IFrameWidgets: Stop slow javascript widgets breaking your page layout!
FeedEntryHeader: Add a copyright statement to the TOP of your feed!
LocalCurrency: Show currency values to readers in their own currency!
KeywordLuv: Reward your commentators with keyword rich anchor text!