My second plugin release within a week? What is happening?
Draft Links is a fork of one of the features from one of my other plugins – Draft List. Let me explain why.
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Draft Concluder – a WordPress plugin request made real
Last month, WordPress developer John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a plugin.
However much he may or may not have wanted it, I decided to make it a reality. Not just some of his suggestion, but all of it. And then some.
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Creating a Zoom shortcut with WordPress
Got a WordPress site? Regularly need to invite people to your personal Zoom room? Why not combine them both and create a handy shortcut to the latter?
In this case, I’m going to be using the plugin Safe Redirect Manager, which I’ve found to be both simple to use and reliable. It’s also recommended by WordPress VIP, having also been authored by one of their agency partners.
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Add Twitter threads to your WordPress post
We can already quickly and easily embed Tweets in WordPress posts, but wouldn’t it be great to add entire threads too? Well, you can. All you need is the block editor and version 8.7, or greater, of Jetpack.
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Minding my language: trying to make WordPress more inclusive
With everything going in the world right now our use of language has come into sharper focus. Words matter.
And as a contributor to WordPress, a platform that runs over 35% of the internet, I’ve been turning my eye towards the language it uses. On screens and in code.
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