WP Greet Box version 5.0 is here!
This version of WP Greet Box has the following enhancements.
I have moved WP Minify out of beta stage.
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.
Here is the winner from the previous WordPress Plugin Development Book Giveaway.
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!
You will only need to do two very easy things to win:
Just entered a contest to win V.Prelovac’s “WordPress Plug-in Development” Book. Win by following @madeinthayaland and RT! http://is.gd/s7iM
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!
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.
Today is the day I turn 26 years old. For those who don’t know me yet, let me tell you a little bit about myself.
I am a full-time software engineer with a strong passion for web technology. I started OMNINOGGIN as a personal blog in 2007 in an effort to share my knowledge in the general field of software engineering. I wasn’t getting many readers by 2008, so I finally decided to niche-ify this blog into a blog that mainly talks about WordPress and a few other web development topics.
I developed my first WordPress plugin and wrote my first WordPress article in March 2008.
Now I have have authored 8 WordPress plugins and have written quite a bit of articles about WordPress on OMNINOGGIN. In addition to that, I make it a point to write on Weblog Tools Collection about once week.
I didn’t want to do this, but I just had to ask since it’s my birthday.
I spend a lot of time writing plugins/articles and I make them available for free. If they have helped you in anyway, or if you are using them for commercial purposes, then I would love it if you can support me by any of the followinig methods:
Of course this is not mandatory, but it would make a really great birthday gift!
I will continue to support and make updates to my current plugins, but I don’t see myself releasing any more plugins unless I think they will be as revolutionary as WP Greet Box and WP Minify. I will also be launching a support forum for my plugins to encourage community discussion/support rather than just 1-on-1 support in comment forms. With plugin support taking less time, I hopefully can focus on more WordPress articles and tutorials for you all!
When I told one of my friends that I am reading Vladimir Prelovac’s WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide), I got the following response from him:
Just what we need… more beginners developing insecure wordpress applications. As-if it isn’t already the #1 hacked application on the Internet…
I completely disagree with this statement. A book like this will help the WordPress community more than harm it. Everybody has to start somewhere right? How else better than to start with a beginner’s guide that shows you the proper way to code a WordPress plugin (with security in mind)? I have finished reading this book and I am quite excited to share some insights. Read on…
