plugins

Site Maintenance – New WordPress Plugins (Part 1)

September 14, 2010

I saw a nice re-tweet this week from @123LinkIt for 15 Best Plugins for 2010, and knew that it was time to make some adjustments to how things are done at WhatAboutStephen.  So I’ve been going through each of these plugins, looking to see how best to use them.  Here are my thoughts so far: [...]

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Pac-Man!

September 13, 2010

I’ve seen some interesting plugins for WordPress, but this is the first time that I’ve seen one like this! Pac-Man turned 30 recently (sad that he’s older than some of the people reading this)… and because of that, I offer you this… [pacman]

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New Addition to the Blog: Favicons!

August 14, 2010

I read an article awhile ago on the common mistakes that newbie bloggers make.  Most of them I’d already gotten past, but there was one that caught my eye… not creating your own personalized favicon for your blog.  In case you don’t know what a favicon is (I didn’t), it’s the tiny little picture that [...]

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Continuing to Work With 123LinkIt

July 14, 2010

I’ve been trading a few emails back and forth with Yasmine Mustafa, founder of 123LinkIt, trying to get the plugin to work properly on this blog.  We’re not quite there yet, but I’m confident that the issue will get resolved.  Actually, at the moment, I have a nagging suspicion that it might be a user-related [...]

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WaS Goes Mobile!

April 16, 2010

People have mentioned that the blog is not mobile-friendly.  I never really thought much about it because I was not accessing it through a cell phone.  But as more and more people use mobile browsers to access their favourite content on the go, I decided that perhaps I should look into improving the mobile experience [...]

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Would You Like to Buy Me a Hot Chocolate?

June 11, 2009

You may have noticed a tiny little coffee cup icon at the bottom of this post. I read about an interesting little plug-in that I’m testing out. It’s called “Buy me a beer”, but since I don’t drink beer, there is an option to change it to a “cafe” as well. I don’t drink coffee [...]

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