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Tutorial: WP Greet Box Options

Thaya Kareeson
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This post will explain the various options in WP Greet Box WordPress plugin. I just thought it would be nice to pull the documentation outside of the plugin itself, so that it can be updated more frequently.

Greeting Messages

Custom WPGB Message
This is where you manage all of your custom greeting messages that show up depending on your visitor’s referrer information.
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Released Buy Sell Ads WP Plugin 0.5

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Buy Sell Ads WP Plugin version 0.5 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of Buy Sell Ads WordPress plugin has the following enhancements.

  1. Fixed for encrypting BSA statistics JS script (So BSA counter does not get blocked and your stats are more accurate on buysellads.com).
  2. Cleaned up some code. Also updated to circumvent the updated Easylist.

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Released WP Minify 0.3

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WP Minify version 0.3 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

  1. WordPress 2.8 Compatibility Fix (minify files enqueued in the footer)

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Released WP Greet Box 5.1.0

Thaya Kareeson
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WP Greet Box version 5.1.0 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

  1. Added option to make the greet icon open up a new browser window when clicked on.
  2. Added POT file for translations.
  3. Added bing.com. (Thank you mynetx!)
  4. Updated Google icon. (Thank you Shahar!)
  5. Fixed svn:executable properties for php scripts and images.
  6. Removed legacy “Allow self referral option” (and always leave it on).

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How to Troubleshoot WP Minify

Thaya Kareeson

WP Minify is supposed to work out of the box for many cases. That being said, there will always be plugins that conflict with WP Minify because of the nature of this plugin. In this post, I will show you how to troubleshoot these issues for yourself before you have to hit the plugin support forum.

How does WP Minify Work?

When activated, the plugin does the following:

  1. WP Minify intercepts theme rendering at the get_header WordPress hook and puts everything that is echoed/outputted from the PHP code into an output buffer.
  2. WP Minify then intercepts theme rendering again at the get_footer WordPress hook to stop the output buffer.
  3. The plugin then evaluates the page content to extract all JavaScripts and stylesheets out.
  4. The minified version of these JavaScripts and stylesheets are then re-injected into the content.
  5. The page content is echoed/outputted as normal.

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Released WP Minify 0.2.0

Thaya Kareeson

WP Minify version 0.2.0 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.

  1. Changed the way CSS and JS files are picked up (No more wp_enqueue_* requirements!).
  2. Fixed exclusion bug where specified files are not excluded from Minification.
  3. Removed OMNINOGGIN dashboard widget.

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Released WP Greet Box 5.0

Thaya Kareeson

WP Greet Box version 5.0 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.

  1. Added ability to expand related posts by default.
  2. Added ability to display related posts before the greeting message.
  3. Added localization support.
  4. Added version checking.
  5. Cleaned up a lot of code.

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Released WP Minify 0.1

Thaya Kareeson

I have moved WP Minify out of beta stage.

What’s new this release?

This is the official release of WP Minify. This release fixes a bunch of bugs found and reported by the beta testers (THANK YOU!). Here are some updates on bugs and feature requests.

Known bug

  1. Full compatibility with WPMU (I haven’t had time to reproduce this bug).

Upcoming Features

  1. Placing minified scripts in the footer.
  2. Automatic <link> and <script> detection for minifying.
  3. Option for setting far future expiration.
  4. Option for setting the location of local cache files.
  5. Option to not gzip.
  6. Ability to offload files to an external CDN.

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Announcing Winner of WordPress Plug-in Development Book

Thaya Kareeson

Here is the winner from the previous WordPress Plugin Development Book Giveaway.

Winner

After including the people who did not win in the last contest (as promised), here is the lucky winner of Vladimir Prelovac’s WordPress Plug-in Development: Beginner’s Guide book.
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WLTC: How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest

Thaya Kareeson
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As some of you may know, I have been writing on Weblog Tools Collection (WLTC) quite a bit lately. In this post, I would like to highlight a good tutorial I wrote on WLTC in case you guys might have missed it. The tutorial talks about one of the most important components of a blog contest: tracking RSS subscribers.

Blog contests are great tools for helping you gain readers. There are many great theories out there on the web about how to run a blog contest, but there are no tutorials that talk about how to track RSS subscribers in these contests. The tutorial will show you two simple WordPress hacks that is needed to be able to track RSS subscribers in a blog contest. Check out the full tutorial here.