http://wprocker.com WP Rocker - Fresh Links, News and Updates from WordPress wprocker.com http://wprocker.com/story/58971/ In this episode of Pressbits I discuss my pet peeve of plugin developers deleting my options settings on deactivation, rather than upon uninstallation.You should listen to it, especially if you’re a plugin developer.If you would rather download it directly you can do that too, or subscribe to.. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:55:00 -0600 WPCandy http://wprocker.com/story/58971/ http://wprocker.com/story/58943/ A brand new plugin released by GreenHost aims to make censoring the web next to impossible. It’s called RePress and turns any WordPress powered website it’s installed on into a proxy server. The plugin was created in response to piratebay.org being blocked within the Netherlands due to a.. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58943/ http://wprocker.com/story/58930/ Daniel Immke has published his own primer on using native user interface elements for the administration of plugins. By following his basic primer, you’ll be on your way to creating a plugin that looks and functions as if it were a part of the core of WordPress which is what plugin developers .. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58930/ http://wprocker.com/story/58911/ In-depth article by Siobahn McKeown that breaks down how commercial plugin developers are monetizing their efforts through the WordPress.org plugin respository. The article covers the guidelines that plugin authors should follow, examples of successful plugins as well as plugins that didn’t me.. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58911/ http://wprocker.com/story/58910/ If you’re using the self installed version of WordPress and looking to participate in the internet blackout day today, check out the SOPA Blackout Plugin. This plugin contains flexibility so that you don’t have to turn your entire website into a black hole. Instead, you get to set blacko.. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:46:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58910/ http://wprocker.com/story/58893/ Earlier this morning, I discovered that while moderating comments, a small little X icon appeared that I’ve never seen before. After inquiring on Twitter why WordPress never gave me a new feature pointer to explain to me what this feature was, I was told that it came with the newest version of.. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58893/ http://wprocker.com/story/58889/ WordPress consultant, Konstantin Kovshenin has published an excellent guide describing what theme/plugin lock-in is and how to avoid it. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about for a long time but have never been able to put into words for a post. The biggest culprit in my opinion when it com.. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58889/ http://wprocker.com/story/58873/ Dev4Press has an interesting post that contains performance benchmark numbers that show just how much of an impact certain plugins have on loading times within WordPress. Amongst the 35 tested plugins are bbPress, W3 Total Cache, WooCommerce and a few of the plugins developed by Millan. I as well as.. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58873/ http://wprocker.com/story/58856/ @WraithKenny – #WordPress plugin repo should have a favorites button. – via Twitter Now THAT’S a good idea! Stretch it further by giving us the option decision to make our favorite lists private or public on WordPress.org. There are all sorts of things you can do from there on in. .. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58856/ http://wprocker.com/story/58848/ If you’re the owner of an iPad, you’ll likely love the sound of Touch Punch which is a newly released plugin by David Gwyer that enables users to use touch screen gestures to control the WordPress administration area. For example, with Touch Punch, you can now drag and drop widgets using.. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58848/ http://wprocker.com/story/58794/ Making the rounds on Twitter today is a WordPress plugin called Dashboard Site Preview that allows you to preview your website from the WordPress dashboard. The plugin was created by 10 year old, Jesse Friedman who goes by jesseenterprises on WordPress.org. According to Brad Williams, this guy atten.. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:17:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58794/ http://wprocker.com/story/58758/ With the Santa hat on, Matt Mullenweg has decided to try out an experiment specifically for plugin authors and their respective plugin pages. He’s decided to give plugin authors a little more control with regards to how their plugin pages look by offering them a chance to upload a 772 x 250 pi.. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58758/ http://wprocker.com/story/58734/ One of my favorite WordPress plugins of all time WP Ajax Edit Comments, will soon be free again for all to use. According to a recent email sent out by iThemes, as of January 1st, 2012 they will no longer be supporting Ajax Edit Comments as a premium plugin. Instead, the full version will be uploade.. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58734/ http://wprocker.com/story/58609/ David Decker has published his list of seven cardinal sins that he’s run into when diving into the localization/internationalization of plugins and themes. For beginners who want to start making it easy for others to localize their code, you should read this article on the Codex entitled, Tran.. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58609/ http://wprocker.com/story/58579/ Scott Reilley who also goes by Coffee2Code is continuing his trend of releasing small but useful plugins for niche audiences. This time, he has released a plugin called No Browser Nag that removes the Outdated Browser nag found within newer versions of WordPress. While it’s a bit foolish to .. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58579/