Twitter Visual Stats – Wordpress Plugin

Last Updated on Friday, 9 January 2009 12:52 Written by webguyatwork Friday, 9 January 2009 12:52

My first official Wordpress plugin is complete and ready for distribution.  Named “Twitter Visual Stats”, this plugin is a “widget” that adds a visual Flash-based graph to your site to show visitors your increase in the number of Twitter followers over time.  There are several basic configuration parameters that you can set once the plugin is activated, so you can customize it for your site.

I have just submitted the plugin to the Wordpress.org site for approval and upload to their CVS repository.  Until then, I have made the plugin available on my blog through the following download link.

Download link: http://blog.4minds.com/downloads/twitter-visual-stats/

Installation instructions are included on the page link above as well as in the ZIP file as “readme.txt”.

Feedback

I need it, please.  Tell me what you think of this plugin. Be brutal if necessary, but please give me feedback.  If you have suggestions for improvement, I’ll take them into consideration.  Leave your comments on this post below.

Is that SNOW? Why, yes it is!

Last Updated on Friday, 12 December 2008 09:46 Written by webguyatwork Friday, 12 December 2008 09:45

Let it snow!

The holidays are rapidly approaching, which means a nice break from work is also just around the corner for most.  Nothing puts me in the holiday shopping spirit like a bit of snow in the air and on the ground.

So to help spread a little bit of my holiday spirit, I’ve added some snow to my site.  Yes, that’s right, snow!

Hey wait, who put THAT image there?

Ah, now that’s better, REAL snow!  Wordpress users were treated to this special addition by simply enabling it in their dashboards.  A couple of enterprising individuals quickly whipped up a plugin for the rest of us self-hosting bloggers.  It’s called “Let It Snow” and it’s available in the Wordpress plugins site at the following URL:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/let-it-snow/

Wordpress 2.7 RC1 is Available

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2009 09:45 Written by webguyatwork Thursday, 4 December 2008 04:10

Thanks to a quick-posting Rachel Baker (twitter.com/rachelbaker), I was alerted to an upcoming upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 that is being pushed to users of their blog site tonight at 5pm PST.  Unfortunately, the personally hosted version is not slated for availability for another month, the release candidate 1 is available for download now at http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/wordpress-27-release-candidate-1/.

The upgrade took me only minutes to perform.  Try it out for yourself (offline first, of course):