Yesterday, while working on a project for Springer Uitgeverij, I was amazed to find out there is no simple RSS Shortcode plugin, that simply allows you to do this: [rss feed=”http://yoast.com/feed/” num=”10″ excerpt=”false”/] And then that would show the feed you’d specified. Well, now there is: the RSS Shortcode plugin. It looks like this, when [...]

I’ve got some small updates, from both myself, WordPress.org and some friends, including some very cool tutorials: The Salesforce plugin we released last week, WordPress to Lead, got so much attention that my head is still buzzing… It got featured on Mashable, TechCrunch and loads and loads more blogs and news sites. Very very cool [...]

Lorna Li, an Online Marketing Manager at Salesforce.com reached out to me on a definitive list of must-have WordPress plugins for her green marketing blog and other websites she was working on. During our conversation about the world of WordPress plugins, I thought, wouldn’t it be great to have a contact form builder that captures [...]

This very simple WordPress plugin does one thing: it allows you to embed something like this: By adding a bit of code to your posts or pages that looks like this: [rss feed=”http://yoast.com/feed/” num=”3″ excerpt=”false”/] It has three variables: feed: required, the feed address. num: the number of items to show (optional, defaults to 5) [...]

Most plugin authors host all their plugins on WordPress.org, and though this has huge advantages, it denies them of one thing: easy access to statistics of downloads. Recently, the WordPress team added a WordPress plugin information API to WordPress.org (which is very well documented here). Using this API I’ve built a widget that shows up [...]

I was talking to my buddy Shoemoney on IM this weekend, and he mentioned that he thought there was a need for a good WordPress CrunchBase plugin, to easily integrate CrunchBase widgets into your posts without having to create the widget on the CrunchBase site, and then copy the widget code into your own post. [...]

I’ve had a good few days of coding, and updated several plugins today, all for different reasons explained below, and also written a new one, email commenters. Of course I used this chance to update all links in these plugins and in these plugins pages on WordPress.org. Check out what I did!

This plugin allows you to easily add SlideShare presentations to your blog by just copy pasting the default WordPress embed code. It has one (!) setting, “default width”. If you set that setting, it will make all presentations appear at the width you set there, allowing you to easily adapt the width to your theme’s [...]