An attempt to write a blog post a day for the duration of a year.

Are WordPress Plugin authors going too far?

One thing that really bugs me about using other peoples WordPress plugins is how much they pollute admin panels and page markup.

A plugin that we were planning to use today had so much additional, unwanted content it was ridiculous and an alternative found.
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WordPress Plugin download statistics and maintenance

Around eleven months ago I began putting together my first WordPress plugin for a project that was in development at the time.

Now, nearly a year down the line, there have been over 12,000 downloads for the four plugins available via the Plugin Directory. more…

Maintaining WordPress Plugins is proving to be more difficult than expected

Over the past year or so I have found it necessary to write a handful of WordPress Plugins to acheive a set of functionality I have required on my sites.

In an attempt to allow others to use what had been written, most of them had been published to the WP Plugin Directory. more…

WordPress SubHeading plugin featured on SixCrayons.com

My WordPress SubHeading plugin has been featured on SixCrayons.com in the last in a (working) week of giveaways on the site.

It’s always nice to see something you have created been promoted and used by other people, which is the reason why it was uploaded to the plugin directory in the first place. more…

WordPress SubHeading plugin update highlights it’s popularity

Since committing my updates to the SubHeading plugin two days ago (Wednesday evening) there have been over 200 downloads, bringing the total downloads to nearly 3,500.

I’m really pleased that so many people are finding this plugin so useful, especially as it was only really intended for a few projects I have been working on. more…