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[description] [installation] [FAQs] [changelog] [usage] [demo] == Description == Requires at least: wp 2.8 Tested up to: wp 3.2.1 Stable tag: 0.5 It displays a list of feed items from a given feed URL. You can select the number of displayable items, whether you want publication date, time and/or excerpt (and how many chars of [...]

New version of my plugin. I simply incorporated the amendments and fixes made to the native gallery. Fixes related to sizing the images according to the number of columns requested. More to come.

Yes, that’s the name of the wordpress theme I use. I finally managed to fix an annoying problem which prevented to see the comments. Now, communication with users who leave a comment should be easier.

Ok it’s online on wordpress now. Yes, I have released a new plugin almost simultaneously with the release 3.1 of wordpress It’s about the native wordpress gallery with a few enhancement. You are able to choose to display the linked pages/images in a new window or not and you are able to make the images [...]

It seems that Google has made their News (news.google.com) unavailable to feed parsers like Simplepie, Magpie, lastRSS or even like native php functions like simplexml_load_file for a while today. Google servers returned a “503 Service unavailable” error message until recently. On the other hand, feeds have always been readable by browsers and feed aggregators like [...]

After having had some problems with syndicating a feed URL containing search criteria, I have discovered that wordpress encodes data entered as attributes to shortcodes. Well done, but I had to decode my feed URL for my RSS parser understand it. I also took the opportunity to add a couple of new features. A new [...]

Well, software never stops surprising me. Working on a new project which involves PHP and timezones, I obviously needed to use these PHP supported timezone standards. No problem when I set a timezone to a specific standard location (i.e. ‘America/New_York’), but when using the non-recommended GMT standards, the resulting time was reversed. So, by selecting GMT-5, the [...]

Again a bit of a late announcement, but i released a new plugin. It’s similar to my previously released plugin Google News Widget & Shortcode but this time the user can link any external RSS feed of their choice. Yes, it’s mocking the native “RSS widget”for wordpress as they will displayed close to each other [...]

A belated announcement, but a new version of my plugin has been released last Saturday. From the readme file: == Changelog == = 0.6 = added excerpt option to the widget form/shortcode added number of excerpt chars to be displayed on the widget form/shortcode added working message about formatting and sidebars updated readme.txt == Upgrade [...]

Working on a new plugin, I have made the following “discovery”: As we all know, WordPress has been technically built to be translated in different languages. The naming convention used to identify the language, is based on the ISO-639 language code (e.g. pt for Portuguese) followed by the ISO-3166 country code (e.g. _PT for Portugal or _BR for Brazil). [...]