Feb 12
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WordPress Plugin: Column-Matic
23 Feb, 2012 - Ice Blades Shipped Out!
Today the ice blades where picked up, and are shipping out! Look for them to arrive in the next days.
Oh Hell Yes!
These are ice-blades. Constructed from high quality stainless steel, they simply replace the wheels on your longboard and allow you to carve on the ice. No special tools or additional hardware is required. The blades work well with both longboard and skateboard trucks.
Feb 12
3
WordPress SEO Checklist
A basic check-list to ensure a WordPress site is fully optimized for search engines. A standard WordPress install is actually quite good for SEO as it is—However, there are a few tips to maximize any SEO efforts.
- Original, quality, text-based content that is valuable to the reader
- .htaccess file exists and permissions set to 777 in the root directory
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Permalinks set to
/%postname&/or/%category%/%postname%/ - Install WordPress SEO plugin by Joost de Valk
- Install Google Analytics for WordPress plugin by Joost de Valk
- Install Redirection plugin by Urban Giraffe
- Optimize Title Meta Tags
- Optimize Description Meta Tags
- Optimize Image Alt and Title Tags
- Optimize Link Text
- XML Sitemaps
- Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools
- Google Places
- 404 Redirects
Oct 11
12
Where The Yellowstone Goes
Where The Yellowstone Goes
Technouin, friend of Twinpictures and all-around Gentledude, Hunter Weeks, has shot an amazing film while on a drift boat expedition down the length of the Yellowstone River. At 692 miles the Yellowstone is the longest undammed river in the United States. This amazing project needs your help to kickstart it onto the big screen. Only 3 more days & 3k to go. Even the smallest of beans help.
The Yellowstone River remains one of the last natural waterways linking the America of today with an area only few have encountered. No other river in the world is visited more than the Yellowstone at Artist point, within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, yet 500 miles downstream in North Dakota, it is completely deserted. Fly fishing guide and 4th generation Montanan, Robert Hawkins will lead a small crew on a soul searching and inspirational journey by floating the longest free flowing river in the contiguous United States; the Yellowstone River.
Aug 11
9
T(-) Countdown Control
T(-) Countdown Control is a next-level countdown management and scheduling plugin for WordPress. This plugin includes all the features of the jQuery T(-) Countdown plugin, with the added ability to schedule recurring countdowns.
Download
Download T(-) Countdown Control v1.0RC1
Change Log:
- 1.0RC1 – Conflict issues with function names resolved.
- .07a – Added launch page redirect option. (Good Idea Matt!)
- .06a – Fixed bug with weekly recurring countdowns. (Thanks Reuben!)
- .05a – Major overhaul of the scheduler. It just might actually work now.
- .04a – Super optimized timer function. Recurring timers will auto-reset after cycle times out. Added .pot language file for localization.
- .03a – Optimized timer/animation method. Fixed animation stacking on inactive tabs.
- .02a – Script file now is inserted when only using the shortcode
- .01a – Like a monkey, ready to be shot into space. Space monkey
This plugin is currently a release canidate, and will be made available for a very limited time. Please download and install only if you are a brave space monkey—and are able and willing to provide feedback. This plugin will not be released as a free plugin on the WordPress repo. Regardless, all space monkeys that participate by providing useful feedback will receive a free copy of the final release of this plugin.
Members WordPress plugin by Justin Tadlock is a truly excellent plugin. In fact, it really should be worked into the WordPress core, as it greatly improves the user roles management/permissions features that are sadly lacking in the latest release of WordPress.
However, when it came to restricting access to a certain post/page/custom_post_type, Justin’s Members plugin was a bit restricted–only in that it allowed permission to be granted only to user roles and roles that contained the restrict_content capability. A more granular permission for individual users, regardless of which role they are a member of could not be set.
Presented for your consideration is a modified version of Members that allows this fine-tune permissions for specific users.
Hopefully, this ‘allow-user’ feature will be included in a future release of Justin’s original plugin. And Justin, if you are reading this, excellent plugin, just need a bit more love–hope you don’t mind us building on your giant shoulders.
Regardless, at least for now anyway, the plugin can be downloaded here, and we will link to the official updated plugin if ever the user permission feature is added.
Jan 11
18
News Tick-O-Matic
News Tick-O-Matic has been released and is enjoying it’s new home at The Plugin Oven.
Twinpictures is currently building a new WordPress Widget that will display an animated, scrolling news ticker in the sidebar.
News Tick-O-Matic Options
So far the basic widget options include:
- Title
- Category Name Filter
- Category ID’s Filter
- Total Number Posts
- Trim Excerpt Words
- Post Displayed
- Pause Time
- Animated Time
Jan 11
5
Annual Archive Widget
Annual Archive widget extends the default WordPress Archive sidebar widget by allowing daily, weekly, monthly or annual archives to be displayed. The widget can also display a list of posts ordered by date or alphabetically. Also included is a simple shortcode that will display an archive list on any post or page.
Annual Archive - Advanced Archive WordPress Widget
Download
Why Use This Widget?
Good question. One reason might be that you have posts that pre-dates WordPress, the Internets… before Johannes Gutenberg, the invention of paper or even the wheel. That would be a seriously long list if archived by month.
Using the amazing Annual Archive widget could shrink that list by as much as twelve times! Just imagine all the sidebar space that saves for other widgets like a Countdown, or perhaps even a list of related attachments.
So, download Annual Archive from Twinpictures or WordPress today, and—depending on what type of calendar system is being used—cut that archive list by up to a factor of twelve.
Dec 10
22
jQuery Collapse-O-Matic v1.3
The latest release of Twinpictures’ jQuery Collapse-O-Matic plugin for WordPress includes new user-requested features. All features are demonstrated below, along with a complete listing of shortcode options available in v1.3.x
Dec 10
20
jQuery T-minus Countdown 2.0
The jQuery T-minus Countdown has grown up from a little widget to a full featured WordPress Plugin, complete with shortcode as demonstrated below:
Some of the new features include:
- Multiple instance sidebar widgets
- HTML content areas located above and below the countdown
- Shortcode for placing countdown in a page or post
- Launch Event HTML that can replace the above, below or entire countdown areas