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Code Release: Class.FTShorten

With the latest update of my URL Shortener Core Plugin  to version 2.0 as well as the addon module to version 0.2, I made a overhaul to the coding, providing a unified class for processing the Short URL request.

Class.FTShorten

The new component of the core plugin. It contains the functions required ...

WordPress Gets Upgraded to 2.9

Automattic has released an upgrade to it’s popular WordPress blogging platform.

Version 2.9, also known as “Carmen” includes quite a notable number of additions like oembed support, batch plugin updating, a simple image editor as well as a “Windows recycle bin”-like feature for posts.

Under-the-hood improvements are ...

WP.me shortlinks now available to self-hosted WordPress

In a recent update to the WordPress.com stats plugin, the developers have added WP.me shortlink generation functionality to it as well.

What this entails

With version 1.6 of the stats plugin, the once exclusive WP.me shortlink feature will now be available to all users of the self-hosted WordPress. It is ...

Tutorial: Autosave WordPress Post Title as Tags

This post is published in response to a WordPress support thread, requesting such a functionality (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/338629)

Although the title of the post states that it is a tutorial, I haven’t really tested the following code extensively. It works on my test environment as well as a live blog ...

Tutorial: Adding a second dynamic (widget) sidebar in WordPress

I was looking around in the WordPress support forums the other day and the question of how to add a second dynamic sidebar came up.

This is probably quite a common question, and it’s definitely one of the few things that I looked for when dynamic sidebars were introduced in WordPress. ...

FlowMod WordPress Admin Theme Dev

Long time users of the WordPress blogging platform would know that the administration interface underwent changes when it reached version 2.5 and subsequently when version 2.7 was released. The interface has definitely improved quite abit over those years and all these changes were without a doubt, much welcomed.

However, I felt ...

Canonical URLs (Code Snippet – WordPress)

While developing websites, most probably you would have heard about specifying canonical URLs or come across an article on it.

For the benefit of those who haven’t, URL Canonicalization, also known as URL normalization is a process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. Search ...

Update: URL Shortener Plugin v1.6

Due to a request by a user in the WordPress support forums, I’ve updated the URL Shortener plugin to include the awe.sm service as well…

At the same time, I’ve also updated the post activation hook to take into account scheduled posts. Previously, Short URLs were not generated when ...

WordPress Custom Content Length (Code Snippet)

While I was coding this website, I was looking around for a piece of WordPress code allows you to display an excerpt of a certain length.

Frankly, I really feel that a custom content length should be built into the WordPress core.

Anyway, there are plugins available but just didn’t want to ...

Update: URL Shortener Plugin v1.5

This is an update to the URL Shortener plugin that was released a week back.

The major change in Version 1.5  is the addition of  short URLs using the WordPress post or page ID, on top of the usual 3rd party shortlink service generated URL. Thus, you can have shorter URLs ...

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