Twitter Widget Pro 2.1.3 Released

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell on November 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

The new Twitter Widget Pro support forum has turned up some great ideas and has helped catch some easily missed bugs. This latest release of Twitter Widget Pro includes a bugfix that removes a duplicate closing tag for the title link, which was caught by someone in the forums, as well as an enhancement that makes the date format a per-widget setting (also suggested int he forums).

If you want to request a feature, or need support, go to the Twitter Widget Pro Forum. For more information, go to the Twitter Widget Pro page.

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Twitter Widget Pro 2.1.2 Released

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell on November 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

There was a small formatting issue introduced in Twitter Widget Pro 2.1.0 where there were no spaces between the tweet and meta data or between the date of the tweet and where the tweet was from (such as “from TweetDeck”). When I added the shortcode functionality I had to remove a lot of the excess whitespace so that the formatting built in to WordPress didn’t mess up the formatting of the widget when it was embedded in a post or page. I just released version 2.1.2 that fixed the spacing without messing up the formatting for the shortcodes.

I also added in some links to the WordPress Twitter Widget Pro Support Forum to make it easier for you to ask questions or make suggestions or requests. For more information, go to the Twitter Widget Pro page.

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Twitter Widget Pro 2.1.1 Released

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell on November 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Recently, a Twitter Widget Pro user (alx) asked on the support forum for a new feature. He wanted to be able to have all the links open in a new window, and that’s a great idea! I just released version 2.1.1 of Twitter Widget Pro with this exact feature. If you want to request a feature, or need support, go to the Twitter Widget Pro Forum. For more information, go to the Twitter Widget Pro page.

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10 Great WordPress Plugins

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell on November 12, 2009 · 1 Comment 

One of the greatest things about WordPress is how extensible it is through it’s plugin system. There’s a plugin for almost everything. There are more than 4,400 plugins just in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory and there are plenty more that aren’t in the directory. Unfortunately, sometimes there are so many plugins that it makes it hard to find the best WordPress plugins in the massive sea of options. Here are some of my favorite overall plugins.

  1. Akismet
  2. Simple Trackback Validation
  3. Headspace2
  4. Clean Slugs
  5. Google XML Sitemaps
  6. Twitter Widget Pro
  7. WP Super Cache
  8. Sociable
  9. Subscribe to Comments
  10. Twitter Tools

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Twitter Widget Pro 2.1.0 Released

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell on November 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

I just tagged a new version of Twitter Widget Pro which includes an oft-requested feature, a twitter-widget shortcode. You can now embed a twitter widget into any post or page by simply dropping in a shortcode like [twitter-widget username="xavisys"] to embed a widget like this:


Tweets from Xavisys

To read more about how to use the shortcodes and to download the plugin, go to the Twitter Widget Pro page. For support, go to the Twitter Widget Pro Forum

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