Wordpress and Magento Development

Feb02

Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This

I recently added Tweet This to my site, a plugin for WordPress that enables your visitors to easily post a link to your article in their Twitter stream. The key point here, easier is better. One-click goodness will surely get your articles into the Twitterverse.

The plugin was updated yesterday with many more admin features along with options for Digg This, Plunk This and Ping This links. You can see all four at the bottom of this article.

A very welcome addition is customization of how the text is sent to Twitter. The default is ‘[URL] [TITLE]‘ but I followed John Chow’s lead and modified mine to ‘Reading @mesmerlab [TITLE] [URL]‘. I had to modify the plugin code itself when I first installed it.

Thanks go out to Richard X. Thripp for this great upgrade!

Jan29

Add Custom Fonts to your WordPress Site

In the old days if you wanted to have a non-standard font on your site that was viewable by your visitors, you would need to provide a download link so they could add the custom font onto their computer. This was a little clunky, but it allowed a better user experience and would help mesh your design together. One can only handle so much Verdana and Arial each day.

Fast-forward about 10 years. There have been great strides in font technology on the web.

Jan21

Updating Prototype in a DreamHost 1-Click Install

I’ve used DreamHost for years with very little, if any trouble. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a hosting solution. While developing this site, I came across Xavin’s List Subpages plugin for WordPress that allows me to show a submenu based on the ID number of a page. You can see the working menu on my portfolio page.