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The Hidden Plugin Guidelines all WordPress Plugin Developers should know

Lately I’ve had some back and forth with the WordPress members that “oversee” the plugin repository. At the moment I am slightly annoyed at the way they go about “managing” the repository but I’ll leave that for another post. After some back and forth I was finally able to get the Plugin Guidelines that they

The Best WordPress Amazon Associate Plugins

Last year I created the WordPress-Amazon-Associate plugin to make the inclusion of Amazon links and Widgets simpler and more efficient. Since then I’ve made numerous enhancements all in the hopes that users would find it as useful as I do. To date their have been over 30,000 downloads of WPAA and overall great feedback from

Version 1.4.0 released for the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin

Well, as it turns out version 1.3.0 was not the last release of the 1.X branch. Let me announce that Version 1.4.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin has been released! This release incorporates a few key features that I think will open up the plugin to an even wider audience. First this releases includes

5,000 downloads and counting

Today is a momentous occasion for us, and it is all thanks to you! As of early this morning the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin has reached 5,000 downloads according to official WordPress plugin statistics. I never imagined that this plugin would reach 5,000 downloads in less than a month. Thank you for your continued support,

New Release: Version 1.3.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin

Today (December 3rd) we released version 1.3.0 of our WordPress plugin: WordPress Amazon Associate. We’re really excited about the new features that have been included in this release and think that you will be as well. Everybody loves widgets and in this release we have added support for the Amazon Omakase Widget. This widget (shown

1.2.X Bug Fixes and Optimizations to the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin

As you may have noticed there have been a few 1.2.x releases to the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin over the last few days. In version 1.2.0 we introduced support for multiple Amazon locales and Geo localization of product links through the use of ip2nation. After the release it was brought to my attention by Per

How to Correctly include jQuery in your WordPress Plugin

One of the most frustrating items I’ve come across recently is that alot of WordPress plugins include their own version of jQuery or similar JavaScript library. Please Stop!!!! What you may not realize is that WordPress comes bundled with the jQuery library and to boot they provide a simple method to not only include it

WordPress Amazon Associate update: Supporting I18n and Plugin Compliance

Yesterday (11/14/2010) saw the release of Version 1.1.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin. I am very excited about this release as we feel a couple key features were introduced. First WPAA now fully support I18n localization and includes a .pot file that users can use to translate the plugin into their language. If you

New WordPress Plugin – WordPress Amazon Associate

Some may already have noticed but this past Monday we released the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin for WordPress. This stream-linef plugin is built with the purpose of enabling you to quickly and easily take full advantage of all the widgets and feature that Amazon makes available to associates, and of course monetize your website while

Creating a Custom Feed in WordPress

Ever find yourself wanting to create a custom feed of your WordPress managed website? Lucky for you they have the handy add_feed hook that allows you to define as many feeds as you want, Just be careful not to duplicate any existing feeds. I personally find myself using this feature to output xml of data