As I’m sure you have all seen at least one time, each plugin at the wordpress plugin directory has a “stats” page.
The stats page tells you the statistics of the plugin downloads, how many downloads have been today, yesterday, this week and all times. It also displays a cool graph with all the information in it.I don’t know why but I just have this feeling that says I “must” click the stats tab and check the numbers out.
After looking at many stats of many plugins I noticed a similar pattern in the graphs. There is a wave action that looks like this (if you want you can see it for yourself in the popular plugins section):
Then I did some research on the dates that the waves began and I realized that those waves are happening every time an update is released.
That’s pretty cool and all but It got me thinking, If every download counts, even the update downloads and every big plugin has 4+ updates that means that the “All Time” download counter is 6 times or more (plus people that download the plugin to check it out and then delete/disable it) the actual number of websites using it.
I just want to let everyone know that the download counter is really far away from the plugin users number/the number of blogs using the plugin. Next time try to say download count instead of plugin downloads.
I want to thank everyone who sent feedback and feature requests for the post editor buttons plugin.
Because of you I have released 3 more version of mainly bug fixes to the plugin.
The feedback was send through comments on the blog and email messages to me, if you have something on your mind, do not hesitate.
Now you can download and use version 1.3 that works perfect.
By the way if you have an idea for a brand new plugin – contact me :)
Post Editor Buttons?
This plugins allows you to add your own buttons to the post edtor’s toolbar.
I’m talking about the buttons that you see above your content text area when editing posts (b,i,link,img,ul,li).
For example you can add a “h3″ button to make subheaders in your post.
There are virtually endless buttons you can add.
Screenshots
Here is the plugins interface:
This is the output of the above settings:
Download
You can visit the plugin’s WordPress.org page, download the plugin right away and upload it into your plugins directory.
Feedback
Comment whatever is on your mind.
As you can see in the WordPress download page and blog, WordPress 2.8.1 has been released as a stable version to the public.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixed many bugs and security issues that version 2.8 suffered from.
What’s New?
Here are the highlights from the WordPress blog (you can also look at the whole list of new stuff in 2.8.1):
- Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
- Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
- The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
- A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
- Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
- Translation of role names fixed.
- wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
- Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
- Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
- Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
- SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
- Switched back to curl as the default transport.
- Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
- Stricter inline style sanitization.
- Stricter menu security.
- Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
- RTL layout fixes.
Should I Upgrade?
I already upgraded and It took about two seconds. No plugins harmed.
I think that everyone should upgrade because of the security problems in 2.8.1.
Did you update?
The new version of Mass Custom Fields Manager is out!
Why do you need it? For example if you have custom fields that old plugins left of your posts and you want to get rid of them you can now do it with a click of a mouse. There are virtually endless occasions where this plugin can save you valuable time and effort.
I added new features that you asked for, fixed some minor bugs and did some code optimization.
If you encounter any bugs or have an idea on how to improve the plugin then I would love to hear it from you.
I just wanted to let you all know that Gmail is no longer in beta mode.
You can see for yourself when you enter Gmail and get the following logo:
It took Google five (!) years to go from Gmail beta to an official release. I don’t think that any major updates have been added to Gmail’s interface recently except for the drag n’ drop interface.
Anyways, I think Gmail is awesome and if you don’t use it then you have no idea what I’m talking about.
I hate those small evil graphics
If you want to put an end to those annoying smilies that replace your text in posts & comments, follow the next instructions.
First, what are smilies?
Smileys, also known as “emoticons”, are little faces that help you display various emotions. Text smileys are created by typing two or more punctuation marks like :) and :-(
Here is the full list of smilies in WordPress
| icon | text | text | full text | icon | full text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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:) | :-) | :smile: | 
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:lol: |
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:D | :-D | :grin: | 
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:oops: |
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:( | :-( | :sad: | 
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:cry: |
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:o | :-o | :eek: | 
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:evil: |
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8O | 8-O | :shock: | 
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:twisted: |
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:? | :-? | :???: | 
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:roll: |
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8) | 8-) | :cool: | 
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:!: |
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:x | :-x | :mad: | 
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:?: |
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:P | :-P | :razz: | 
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:idea: |
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:| | :-| | :neutral: | 
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:arrow: |
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;) | ;-) | :wink: | 
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:mrgreen: |
How do I get rid of them?
It’s actually pretty easy. All you got to do is go to your admin panel -> Settings -> Writing where you will see the following checkbox:
Uncheck the check box that says “Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display” just like in the image above and click “Save Changes”.
How to replace them
If you want to keep the smilies but you don’t like the current set of smilies you can change them.
Open your FTP program (I use FlashFXP) and upload (overwrite) your custom smilies to /wp-includes/images/smilies.
Looking for more information? Check out the WordPress codex page on smilies.
What about you, do you like them? I just prefer the plain text, it makes it easier to understand. :P
