Top 3 WordPress Plugins for Website Caching
Lets face it we all want to have a lightning fast website. If our site visitors have to wait for more than just a couple of seconds there is a good chance that they have lost their patience and have moved on to another site… causing you to loose exposure and revenue. This can be an especially difficult issue with wordpress. Since wordpress is a completely dynamic content management system (CMS)/blogging platform, every time a visitor comes to your website, the contents have to be loaded, calculated, computed, digested, and then finally displayed. On some sites this can take an... Read More
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New WordPress Plugin: Today in History Widget
It’s here folks… the long awaited Today in History Widget WordPress Plugin. Ok so the only person that I know of to be “long awaiting” this plugin is myself. I’ve had it on the drawing board for over a year now. I worked on a commercial project a few years back that built and utilized a database of events throughout history to display “Today in History” results. That venture slowly went belly-up so here I was with this database of Tens of Thousands of events that had been so painstakingly added to this database, so what could I do with them. Well... Read More
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Bugfix Release for Social Crowd
I know, I know the last three or four posts have been about updates to our Social Crowd wordpress plugin… Don’t worry there will be more of them as we have been pretty active in it’s development over the last several days/weeks. This release fixes a minor bug in the plugin’s admin UI as well as providing some additional functionality to address some confusion. The confusion being caused because the Profile ID fields for each social network were built to receive the actual Profile ID or Unique Identifier for the given social network. The example under each field showed... Read More
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Social Crowd gets some More Updates
On the heels of a major Social Crowd plugin update last week we have a new release to increase the capabilities of this remarkable little plugin. One of the most frequently requested networks for addition to Social Crowd, was the Linked In Business Social Network. And after reviewing copious amounts of documentation we found an easy way to add support for that network. So that’s about it folks, you can now show off the number of Connections that you have made with the Linked In Network right on your WordPress homepage or sidebar. But we should note that the nature of this addition... Read More
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Many New Features for Social Crowd
On the heels of the maintanance release of our Browser Blocker Plugin, we announce the major and long awaited update to our Social Crowd plugin. After many months and numerous requests from Social Crowd users, we have worked hard to make this amazing plugin even easier to use for everyone out there. When we initially designed this plugin it was aimed at theme designers or advanced developers that would integrate the social crowd stats into their designs, so it came with no default styling or graphics. But after several emails from clients it was apparent that there were many users that... Read More
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New Version of Browser Blocker Released
After several emails and comments from users wondering how to easily clear out the options in the plugin, we have added a Clear Options button in both the Simple and Advanced control interfaces. This should allow any users that are experiencing issues with the plugin to easily clear out the settings and start from scratch. Additionally some comments and FAQ’s were added to the Readme file that should help with the usage of the Browser Blocker Plugin. Have fun, and enjoy blocking browsers. Download Browser Blocker Get Additional... Read More
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Browser Blocker Update – Version 0.2
Based on some user requests we made some quick changes to our Browser Blocker Plugin. Bugfix: There was a bug in the 0.1 release, where many times when you would submit changes from the Advanced Settings page, it would display an error message even though the changes were submitted correctly. Added Feature: One request was to provide the option to remove/restrict the options that were displayed on the splash screen, for users of offending browsers to click on and download the newly selected browser to their computer. This feature has now been added so you can select the download options that... Read More
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Social Crowd Plugin gets a new look
With big changes underway for our Social Crowd plugin, we thought it would be appropriate to offer a sneek peek at some of the changes by showing off it’s shiny new icon, which has now been integrated throughout the site. Stay tuned as we prepare to launch version 0.3, with access to more statistics and an easy to use short code for quick posting and stat... Read More
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Browser Blocker WordPress Plugin Released
At long last our latest creation has been made manifest. The Browser Blocker wordpress plugin has been released on an unsuspecting populace. What exactly is the Browser Blocker Plugin you ask? In simple terms it is what it’s name states, it’s a plugin for wordpress that allows the site owner to determine specific versions of various web browsers that they would like to bar from accessing their website. Why would someone want to ban users from coming to their website and partaking of their web goodness? With so many different browser versions traipsing around the interwebs at... Read More
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Top 10 Quicklook Extensions for your Mac
Quicklook is a great little feature that apple added to it’s operating system back when Leopard was released. And if you’re like me, you have used it extensively when you want to preview a photo, movie, or pdf file. But then there are all those other files that don’t seem to be understood by quicklook… And that got me thinking, is there a way to extend the functionality of this amazing little tool in OSX? Here is a sampling of some of the best (and more) quicklook plugins that I came across in my adventures in digital preview land. 1: Brushview My last post was about... Read More
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