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Jay Hoffmann

wpForGlass: The First WordPress Plugin for Google Glass

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December 10, 2013

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Google Glass is one of the trendiest technologies out there right now, but it’s hard to tell who it’s actually useful for. One group that stands out is publishers and journalists who can use Glass to chronicle their stories through rich, on-the-fly media experiences. And as the world’s largest publishing platform, it was only a matter of time before WordPress and Google Glass hooked up. Now, thanks to Weber Shandwick, that time has come. wpForGlass is the first plugin that allows you to post to your WordPress blog from Google Glass. The workflow for wpForGlass is fairly simple and it’s […]

Instagrate Pro Review

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December 3, 2013

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Instagrate pulls in Instagram photos from your personal collection, your feed, or from a variety of filters, then puts them on your WordPress site—anywhere you’d like. That’s it! Now go buy it and use it. What? You want more? You always want more. Here are the details. The Features One of my biggest problems with third party services like Instagram is that if they ever go down you can lose everything, and then you’re stuck. With Instagrate you can import photos right into WordPress and Media Library on your own server. That way you never have to lose them. And […]

Help Test WordPress 3.8!

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November 26, 2013

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As some of you may know, WordPress 3.8 beta 1 was released last week and the core and support teams are actively looking for testers. I know, I know, it seems as if WordPress 3.7 was released only a month ago (it was). 3.7 dealt with some stopgap measures, but 3.8 is a bit more of an overhaul that will need your help to find any bugs or conflicts with themes and plugins. If you want to help, it’s pretty simple. Just download the WordPress beta tester plugin, activate it, and go to Tools -> Beta Testing, then switch it over […]

Evaluating Plugin Weight and Performance

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November 20, 2013

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I was recently asked how I judge the performance and relative “weight” of plugins when I am testing them for Tidy Repo. I wish I had a one stop solution for determining this, but it’s a little more complex than that—so I thought I might detail my process here. General Testing Setup For my local dev environment I use Vagrant, and 10up’s wonderful Varying Vagrant Vagrants box. This works for most plugins, but some need to be on a live install for one reason or another, so I have a site set up on my server as well. These are […]

Responsive Sliders with the Soliloquy Plugin

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November 12, 2013

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When used properly, sliders can be helpful. I’m hard pressed to find a site these days that doesn’t have one. But coding up a slider module can be very difficult. And now that responsive design is all but mandatory, it’s even more so. That’s why Thomas Griffin built Soliloquy. Responsive and Easy What really jump out for me are the layers the plugin is built on. On the surface, it’s really easy to get started with your first slider. Thomas even brags that it can be done in 60 seconds. (In my experience, it’s more like a minute and a half…) […]

Plugin Development: Do Less

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November 6, 2013

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In scouring the many WordPress plugins that exist on the web for my work on Tidy Repo, I’ve noticed some trends. Some plugins do very little; I’ve often said that plugins like Quick Page / Post Redirect and Simple Google Maps Shortcode “do just one thing, and do it well.” Others are more robust, offering turn-key solutions for large-scale problems. Think WooCommerce or Buddypress. It’s only very rarely that I come across a plugin that is actually somewhere in the middle of these two categories, and it got me thinking about which approach I prefer. And the more I thought […]

Nervous About Automatic Updates?

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October 30, 2013

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There has been some controversy surrounding the inclusion of automatic updates in WordPress 3.7. The biggest question for site owners has been: What if the updates break my site? Well, Andrew Nacin and the WordPress.org team have put together a plugin called Background Update Tester that tests your site for this possibility. After you install the plugin, you can go to Dashboard -> Update Tester and a test will automatically be run, checking your site for its computability with 3.7 updates. It will test the largest blocks to automatic updates like version control, secure communication with WordPress.org, FTP credentials, and that […]

Two-Factor Authentication in WordPress

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October 8, 2013

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I recently followed a rabbit hole that led me to a few two-factor authentication plugins for WordPress. For those that are unsure, as I most certainly was, two-factor authentication is a login process which asks users for two forms of identification before a login is successful, adding security to the admin section of your site. This typically means pairing your mobile device to your desktop in order for a login to work. In some examples, this may mean an elimination of passwords altogehter. In others, it simply means that your site will be far better protected from attack. So, without […]

WordPress Search, Better

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September 12, 2013

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When it comes to search, WordPress isn’t always the best tool right out of the box. It’s a problem that the WordPress team is aware of, but a tough one to solve. By default, any pages featuring a searched keyword will be listed in results by date order, not by relevance. It can get the job done, but it’s far from the best solution. I recently heard about the premium plugin SearchWP, which aims to improve this. It has a simple tagline: The Best WordPress Search Plugin You Can Find Bold, perhaps, but it has all the signs of a […]

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