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Recent Projects & Lessons Learned
There’s been a lull here on the SEODenver.com website. That doesn’t mean I’ve been standing still. What have I been up to?
I’m going to tell you a bit about these projects and something I’ve learned from each of them.
Posted in KWS
Tagged Contactified, HTC Flyer, HTC Tablet, Shopify, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Development
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Export Bit.ly Link Data as CSV
Finally, a way to download Bit.ly link data as a CSV.
Would you care to download a CSV of your Bit.ly links? WINNING!
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Bit.ly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and rightly so: it is stable, easy to use, and has pretty looking statistics. One thing Bit.ly does not do is export data. There is simple no other Bit.ly exporter out there.
The Bit.ly Exporter plugin allows you to export up to three years of daily click data for your links. This allows you to analyse click data like you always wanted to! All you need is WordPress.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Bit.ly, Bitly, Link Shortener, URL, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
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Hierarchical Link Categories for WordPress
Download the plugin on WordPress.org
If you’ve ever tried to use WordPress’ built-in bookmarks / links manager, you know that its limits can be frustrating. One of the biggest issues I’ve encountered is that the link categories are not hierarchical.
Let’s say you have a tech blog and you link to a lot of pages about TV’s. You may want to categorize the links under TV > Plasma or TV > LCD. With the existing system, you cannot.
Enter the Hierarchical Link Categories plugin
Posted in Plugins, Uncategorized, WordPress
Tagged Blogroll, Link Categories, Links, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
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Lottery Results – A New WordPress Plugin
Download the plugin at WordPress.org
For plugin support, please visit the support forum.
Show lottery results from all 43 states with lotteries
- Choose which games you want to display
- Choose from different lotto results layouts
- Embed results in your content using the
lottery]shortcode.
The widget automatically gets updated results every 6 hours, then they are stored in your website for very fast load times.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Lottery, Lottery Results, Powerball, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Snow Report – Ski Mountain Conditions Plugin for WordPress
Get the latest ski/snowboarding conditions from your favorite area or mountain using the Snow Report WordPress plugin.
The plugin uses the OnTheSnow.com website’s data feeds that provide the most accurate, up to date information available.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Ski Report, Snow, Snow Report, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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WordPress.org Changes Plugin Page Layout
WordPress.org plugin page layout change likely for usability
What the WordPress.org plugin page used to look like.
A couple of weeks ago, WordPress.org changed the layout of their plugins directory plugin pages. The update was likely to improve usability for users trying to determine whether a plugin is trustworthy and what it does. I believe the re-arranging of the page has achieved those goals.
The update removes author links
The layout redesign removes links to the official plugin page. I believe this makes it more difficult for users trying to get support on plugins.
Removing links also affects plugin authors. One of the ways that plugin authors are “rewarded” for creating plugins used to be a link from the WordPress.org website. This resulted in two things: increased traffic to the author’s website and some passed SEO value from the WordPress website to the author’s website.
I recommend all authors to go back through their readme.txt files and add a link to their support pages.
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Layout, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress.org
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WordPress Debt Calculator
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Add a debt calculator to your WordPress blog
Do you have a financial blog or a blog about debt, money management, or household spending? Add a free debt calculator to your blog with no coding required.
- Updating the style: You can update the form’s style by editing the plugin’s
debt.cssfile - You can add the calculator to your website’s sidebar by using the shortcode in a text widget
- Use in combination with the Show Content Only plugin as a pop-up window
Posted in Plugins, WordPress
Tagged Debt, Debt Calculator, Free Debt Calculator, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Strip Extra ImageScaler Attribute from Plugin-Generated Code
I am using the ImageScaler plugin for WordPress on a project, and I like what it does, but it adds a non-standards-compliant attribute to images, such as:
<img class="" src="http://www.example.com/imagescaler/generated-image.jpg" alt="Example" width="258" height="234" imagescaler="http://www.example.com/imagescaler/original-image.jpg" />
To strip imagescaler’s imagescaler attribute, add the following into your functions.php file:
add_filter('the_content', 'strip_imagescaler');
function strip_imagescaler($content) {
$content = preg_replace('/imagescaler="(.*?)".?/s','', $content);
return $content;
}
Posted in WordPress
Tagged add_filter, Code, images, ImageScaler, Plugin, preg_replace, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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How to Display a Random Testimonial or Post in WordPress
Set up a testimonials category — no need for a plugin.
There are a couple of plugins designed specifically for testimonials, but I didn’t want to use them; they use their own databases, and don’t keep with WordPress’ simplicity. If possible, the best way to work with WordPress is to use it’s built-in functionality.
I also wanted to have the testimonials as a category in WP, rather than as a separate plugin. This code will work for any type of category, not just a testimonial.
Here’s how to create a random post item in your sidebar:
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Tagged Categories, Code, How To, Plugins, Posts, query_posts, Random Post, Testimonials, WordPress, WordPress Development
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Get Adjacent Images – More WordPress Functions
WordPress, just get the adjacent image links. I’ll tell you what to do with them!
WordPress is normally great about providing functions that have a return and an echo version. In WordPress, if a function has the prefix get_, then it does not echo (print it into the content), but rather returns the result so that it can be saved as a variable, like so: $example = get_example();
There are some functions that only have echo capability, so I wanted to share my work-around with you all.
Updated image_link functions
- adjacent_image_link() » get_adjacent_image_link()
- previous_image_link() » get_previous_image_link()
- next_image_link() » get_next_image_link()
