So a looooong time ago, I released my first WordPress plugin – expandable jQuery comment replies. I’ve been remiss in keeping it updated – it was written for WP 2.7, and here we are, almost on 3.1. So when I released by Back End Instructions plugin, I decided perhaps I should be a good girl and update my old plugin. Updating it locally wasn’t an issue. however, updating the repository…. that’s a different story. I...
read more ›So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...
read more ›So I was wanting to find a nice, simple method of using Twitter to pull in multiple accounts into a single feed. “Why would you want to do that,” you ask? Well, in my case, I was working on a site for a client who runs an organization. The organization itself has a Twitter feed for announcements and such, but its employees each had their own Twitter account as well. So they wanted to pull...
read more ›NOTE: October 5, 2010 I just recently used this plugin while developing locally for a client. I did an SQL export of the site to move the testbed to the live server, and was muchly surprised to discover this widget does not get retained in the database for some reason. I had to redo all of the widgets manually. I just wanted to post notice of this bug, because I want you to know that...
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