Review: IntenseDebate
This post was written by derek and filed under: Wordpress, featured, introducing
Update: I just noticed that as of yesterday, 13 November 2008, that IntenseDebate is no longer restricted to invite-only registration! So head on over to their site and grab an account today!
Yesterday I finally got an invite code for IntenseDebate and promptly installed it right here on my Wordpress blog. Here are my initial thoughts.
Installation
The installation process for IntenseDebate was really quite straight forward and simple for Wordpress, seeing as they have made it a plugin. For those of you familiar with WP and the use of plugins will have no problems installing this system. you simply download the plugin zip file, unzip, upload to your plugins directory, and activate. Then it’s just a matter of modifying a few settings (I left everything pretty much stock) and taking a look on your site to see how it looks. Read the rest »
Testing: Pingie Widget
This post was written by derek and filed under: Plugin, introducing
I ‘borrowed’ this widget from the sidebar of Paul Stamatiou’s blog, changing the feed link of course and I want to see if it works for me. You’ll see now, in the sidebar to the right and near the bottom, that you can subscribe to this blog via SMS. This means, that if everything works the way I think it does, You’ll get a text message when I post this.
TweetFeed Plugin Released
This post was written by derek and filed under: Plugin, TweetFeed, coding, featured, introducing
I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. I spent a little bit of time (when I wasn’t working) over the last week and turned that little script I mentioned in the last post into a full blown wordpress plugin with a working settings page and everything! This is my first plugin, but I did test it quite a bit. Obviously, if you run into any issues in using it, do not hesitate to contact me by leaving a comment on this post. Read the rest »
Really Simple Tweet Gathering (with a few bonuses)
This post was written by derek and filed under: PHP, Plugin, Widget, Wordpress, coding, introducing
Update:
I just realized that for some reason the wp-syntax plugin has converted a bunch of my characters to their HTML equivalents. I will go through and try to fix that later. For now, take it with a grain of salt. I will upload the file later and put a <link here>. Thanks and Enjoy!
Preface:
I wrote this simple script / plugin so that I could get my latest tweet from twitter to display on my blog (right over there → in the sidebar). I know, I know, there are plenty of prepackaged and readily available plugins for twitter on wordpress in the wild, but none of them did things the way I wanted them to be done. Some allowed you to tweet directly from you blog, I don’t want that. So were quite intrusive and bore quite the burden on the page loading, you couldn’t possibly want that. The best one I found was a plugin called Simple Twitter, and as the name so succinctly states, it’s incrediby simple. I found this one to be nearly what I wanted, which is why I used it as a “jumping off point” for the script I’m presenting here, but it lacked a couple of key functionalities that I wanted. Read the rest »
From the Ashes
This post was written by derek and filed under: featured, introducing
Hello all and welcome!
As you can see, things are looking a bit different around here, both the layout/design and the actual domain name itself. I am taking things in a new direction and wanted to officially welcome you to my new home on the internet! Here I will be writing Tech Reviews, How To’s, and Posting things that I find interesting or new from all around. Read the rest »
