Do you like new Gravatar Hovercards? Why don’t you prepare your visitors without Gravatar for the upcoming plugin with this feature for self-hosted WordPress installation by encouraging them to signup to Gravatar? Almost one year after initial release, I am proud to announce second version of my plugin Gravatar Signup Encouragement. This version improves existing… Read more Gravatar Signup Encouragement 2.0
I kind of adopted plugin Cache Images whose original author was infamous Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress. Since I needed this functionality for my own needs, and this (and all similar plugins) was outdated, I rewrote it and send my changes to Matt who in turn gave me rights to update this plugin in wordpress.org… Read more Adopted plugin: Cache Images
With my new plugin, Gravatar Signup Encouragement, I had a problem with translation of string that is used only on activation. That string contains default message that is saved in database. No matter what I tried, it would always save original string, not translation. After asking question on wp-hackers mailing list and exchanging several replies… Read more How to use load_plugin_textdomain on activation of plugin
Gravatar Signup Encouragement is my first publicly released plugin for WordPress. I got idea to write it after reading comments on post on Weblog Tools Collection titled “Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream”. At that same day I made first version of plugin and posted link to it’s download page as comment on post waiting… Read more Introducing Gravatar Signup Encouragement