Stef's Blog

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). [...]

Version 0.2/0.3 went wrong: on certain blogs (but not on those I tested it with) prevented the administration page from working. A kind user of my blog helped to test it as – no way was it going to happen on my blogs. It was a newbie mistake. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Hopefully this [...]

This table is to be used with Google News Wizard plugin when used as a shortcode. Attribute topic needs to be one of the following: Codes Topics Top Stories w World n Nation b Business t Sci/Tech e Entertainment s Sport m Health ir Spotlight po Most Popular

This table is to be used with Google News Wizard plugin when used as a shortcode. Attribute location need to be one of the following. Note: Country codes do not always correspond to the ISO country codes as some countries are combined with the language the news are written into (in many countries more than [...]

Thanks for your kind feedback. Yes, a new version has been created again. From the readme file: Description: With this plugin, you can display a list of the latest news (by Google News) given localization (country/language), search word(s) or topic and the number of latest news you want to show. The list look & feel [...]

This is my first released wordpress plugin. For the readme.txt file. This plugin creates a widget which displays an unordered list of links to the latest google news, given one or more keywords. The user can customize the list by choosing: the localization (country/language) of the news and the number of articles to be displayed. [...]

In order to avoid misunderstandings, this is not a post for pirates. This is a post for those who – despite having purchased a regular copy of Microsoft Office – get the Office Genuine Advantage Notification error message, when they open any of the programs of the office suite. In order to stop the message, [...]