WP Greet Box version 5.1.0 is here!
What’s new this release?
This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.
- Added option to make the greet icon open up a new browser window when clicked on.
- Added POT file for translations.
- Added bing.com. (Thank you mynetx!)
- Updated Google icon. (Thank you Shahar!)
- Fixed svn:executable properties for php scripts and images.
- Removed legacy “Allow self referral option” (and always leave it on).
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:
- 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.
- WP Minify then intercepts theme rendering again at the get_footer WordPress hook to stop the output buffer.
- The plugin then evaluates the page content to extract all JavaScripts and stylesheets out.
- The minified version of these JavaScripts and stylesheets are then re-injected into the content.
- The page content is echoed/outputted as normal.
WP Minify version 0.2.0 is here!
What’s new this release?
This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.
- Changed the way CSS and JS files are picked up (No more wp_enqueue_* requirements!).
- Fixed exclusion bug where specified files are not excluded from Minification.
- Removed OMNINOGGIN dashboard widget.
WP Greet Box version 5.0 is here!
What’s new this release?
This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.
- Added ability to expand related posts by default.
- Added ability to display related posts before the greeting message.
- Added localization support.
- Added version checking.
- Cleaned up a lot of code.
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
- Full compatibility with WPMU (I haven’t had time to reproduce this bug).
Upcoming Features
- Placing minified scripts in the footer.
- Automatic <link> and <script> detection for minifying.
- Option for setting far future expiration.
- Option for setting the location of local cache files.
- Option to not gzip.
- Ability to offload files to an external CDN.
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.
Read on…
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.
Last week I reviewed Vladimir Prelovac’s WordPress Plug-in Development Book: Beginner’s Guide. Today I would like to give the book away!
How to enter
You will only need to do two very easy things to win:
- Follow @madeinthayaland on Twitter and stay followed until at least the end of the contest.
- Tweet about this contest using the following text:
Just entered a contest to win V.Prelovac’s “WordPress Plug-in Development” Book. Win by following @madeinthayaland and RT! http://is.gd/s7iM
When does the contest end?
This contest will end on April 17th, 2009, 11:59pm EST. I will be announcing the lucky winner in the morning of April 18th, 2009. Good luck everybody!
Sponsor
This contest is sponsored by Packt Publishing, publisher of WordPress Plug-in Development: Beginner’s Guide.
In this post, I would like to highlight a good tutorial I recently wrote on Weblog Tools Collection in case you guys have missed it.
The tutorial shows how you can easily hack your WordPress blog to highlight search terms using some jQuery magic. I particularly like this method because it is an easy modification and jQuery will let you highlight any text within any HTML element no matter if the text is in the post title or in the post content area.
Read the full article here.