In August 2012, Twitter announced that they were releasing v1.1 of the Twitter API. On 11th June 2013 v1 of the API will completely shut down. Within this deprecation, the RSS feed features also become unavailable – which is has huge implications for webmasters globally. Why is this Important Before this deprecation, any Twitter profile [...]
WordPress
WordPress 3.5 – New Features, Fixes & Addons
Today saw the release of WordPress 3.5. This version is the latest release of WordPress and introduces a lot of new features, and unusually for WordPress, a removal of a feature. I’m going to talk you through some of the new features of WordPress 3.5. Removal of Link Manager Interestingly, one of the more controversial [...]
WordPress Add Theme & Plugin Reviews to Extend
This morning we have noticed that WordPress.org users can now review both WordPress plugins and themes. This addition to WordPress Extend now provides more detail into users’ thoughts, rather than the simple voting system that has been provided up until now. Rich Snippet Integration? Rhys kindly reviewed my Facebook Comments plugin. From looking at Google’s Rich Snippet Tool [...]
Advanced WordPress SEO: Add Custom Values to Permalinks Through Custom Fields and Posts
Recently here at 3 Door Digital we had a project that required pretty advanced custom URL structures in WordPress. By default, WordPress is pretty good with permalinks, allowing you to specify a whole range of variables to use. For most websites that use WordPress as their Content Management System, you will probably use one of the [...]
Latest News Ticker for WordPress
Latest News Ticker is a Premium plugin by Shane Jones. Its main feature is very simple; it mimics the news tickers that you will see on most news channels. It takes your post titles and some other fields and displays them across the top or bottom of your page in a scrolling fashion, clicking on [...]
