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Jetpack: change og:title value to be all uppercase
Some blog owners would like their post titles to be displayed in all caps, to attract more clicks on Facebook. Here is how to change Jetpack’s Open Graph meta tags to use an uppercase og:title tag: /*...
View ArticleColor Posts plugin: how to use Jetpack libs in your own plugin
I’ve talked about customizing Jetpack in the past, and I also mentioned how you can integrate Jetpack features in your theme. How about including these features in a plugin? As a proof of concept I...
View ArticleSemicolon: use Jetpack’s Custom CSS libs in your theme
Yet another good example of how to use libraries bundled with Jetpack on your site! My colleague Konstantin Kovshenin recently released the Semicolon theme. It uses the libraries used in Jetpack’s...
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Jetpack: add hashtags to tweets sent by Publicize
Jetpack’s Publicize module allows you to automatically publish your posts to your favorite Social Networks like Twitter or Facebook. You can customize the message that is posted to Social Networks...
View ArticleJetpack: add hashtags to the twitter sharing button
A few days ago I explained how to add hashtags to the tweets sent out by Jetpack Publicize. But what about the tweets your read can send using the Jetpack Sharing buttons at the bottom of your posts?...
View ArticleMyo: Control Plex without leaving your couch
Plex is awesome. It’s an important part of our media centre at home. When I started playing with Myo apps, I figured Plex should be my first stop. I set to develop a small desktop app that would allow...
View ArticleGet a headstart with install.php & Jetpack – Timișoara WordPress Meetup
I was invited to Timișoara to give a talk about Jetpack, and got to meet with the local WordPress community. It was a great meetup. Kudos to the folks from Presslabs, Rainfall, Cosmoslabs, and Get...
View ArticleJetpack: remove a post from the Top Posts Widget
If you use the Jetpack plugin, you’re probably familiar with the Stats module. Once you’ve activated the module, you can also use the Top Posts widget to display a list of the most popular posts on...
View ArticleA Commitment to Backwards Compatibility – Pippin Williamson
Pippin Williamson of Pippin’s Plugins talked about Backwards Compatibility. If you develop plugins or themes, I’d recommend watching that video: Pippin offers some great advice about things to keep in...
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Jetpack: how to deal with missing images in the Related Posts module
Jetpack Related Posts are great. You should use them! They are also customizable; we added a lot of filters to allow you to customize the output of the Related Posts. You can find a lot of examples...
View ArticleJetpack: Add Related Posts to your RSS feed
I got an interesting question in the Jetpack support forums today. Levy wanted to display Related Posts in their RSS feed. Jetpack displays Related Posts at the bottom of single posts by default, but...
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Automating my local dev environment with Laravel Valet and WP-CLI
When I set up my new machine, I decided to get rid of MAMP and Vagrant, my previous local development tools of choice. While they worked well for me, I needed something a bit different. I need to be...
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Manage your Custom Post Types on WordPress.com
I’ve talked about the WordPress.com REST API on this blog before. I even created a plugin allowing you to make use of it on your own site. This API powers WordPress.com, the desktop WordPress.com apps,...
View ArticleSSH Agent in macOS Sierra
I upgraded to macOS Sierra this weekend. The upgrade was mostly painless; I only had to switch from Karabiner to Karabiner Elements to customize my keyboard. But when trying to update my remote...
View ArticleUpdate to REST API Post Embeds: category and tag filters work again!
The past few weeks have been interesting. WordPress 4.7 is coming up, and everyone is talking about the WP REST API. I took that opportunity to look at one of my plugins, REST API Post Embeds, and make...
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REST API for WordPress: what does it mean for you?
If you follow WordPress news, you’ve probably heard about the REST API already. We’ve been talking about it for years, and it’s been presented as a revolution within WordPress. That’s all great, but...
View ArticlePost Views for Jetpack
New week, new plugin! ? This is once again a Jetpack add-on, and it’s also another good example of the things you can accomplish with the WordPress.com REST API: Post Views for Jetpack pulls data about...
View ArticleUse Unison on Webfaction
Unison is a great little tool to synchronize files between your local machine and a remote server. It’s free, open-source, and cross-platform. I use it every day to develop Jetpack. However, until very...
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Watched a movie or a TV show? Log it in WordPress with Traktivity
Do you watch a lot of movies or TV Shows? Do you have a WordPress site? You will love Traktivity! This plugin allows you to log everything you watch inside your WordPress site. You may then use that...
View ArticleSoftware disenchantment
16Gb Android phone was perfectly fine 3 years ago. Today with Android 8.1 it’s barely usable because each app has become at least twice as big for no apparent reason. That’s today’s problem with...
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