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Over ten thousand downloads

Max Pagels — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:53:27 +0000

It’s been a couple of years since I developed the Most Popular Tags plugin, and I’m extremely happy to announce that it has been downloaded over ten thousand times from the WordPress plugin directory. Special thanks to anyone that’s tried it or, even better, liked it.

Jetpack

Max Pagels — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:50:17 +0000

Jetpack supercharges your self‑hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

It’s basically a single plugin that provides the best features on WordPress.com for use on self-hosted WordPress blogs. Worth it for the LaTeX support alone.

Shortcode update

Max Pagels — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:11:38 +0000

Version 0.5.7 of the Shortcode WordPress plugin adds a new shortcode, totalwords, that counts the total number of words in published posts. Note that the count is only an approximation: the total is calculated in SQL as the sum of LENGTH(post_content) - LENGTH(REPLACE(post_content, ' ', '')) + 1, i.e. the sum of the length of all posts (including spaces) minus the length of all posts without any spaces (plus one). Words may not be counted properly if they are separated by more than one space, but the result should be sufficient in accuracy nonetheless.

As always, www.maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt lists all of the shortcodes offered by the plugin, sorted by version.

Shortcode update

Max Pagels — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:17:13 +0000

A new version (0.5.6) of the Shortcode WordPress plugin has been released, allowing you to get the total number of images attached in all posts & pages with the code photosingallery.

As always, look at the text file located at www.maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt for all available shortcodes.

A Most Popular Tags extension

Max Pagels — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:50:20 +0000

The Senke des Chaos’ blog has a post containing a nice extension to the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin: the ability to add a link to a full tag cloud page — in case you only want to show a few tags in the widget itself.

I’m considering merging these changes into the original plugin, but for now, take a look at the extension if you are interested in the added functionality.

Shortcode 0.5.5

Max Pagels — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:40:30 +0000

Added two new shortcodes: futpostcount shows the number of posts set to publish in the future, and draftpostcount the number of drafts. Refer to the list for all available codes.

WP Lessn

Max Pagels — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:23:55 +0000

A nice WordPress plugin for Lessn. I’d also like to se a plugin leveraging the built-in short URL function the_shortlink() that will be introduced in WP3.

A quick update on the Most Popular Tags plugin

Max Pagels — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:12:21 +0000

I’m excited for the upcoming release of WordPress 3, and have been testing my Most Popular Tags plugin to ensure that it works properly with the new version. Things are going smoothly, and if any bugs appear during testing with the final 3.0 platform, I expect they will be quick fixes. When WP 3 is available to the masses, I’ll update the information on the plugin directory page / bang out a quick patch shortly thereafter.

Shortcode 0.5

Max Pagels — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:32:21 +0000

Adds two new shortcodes (both averages):

charsperpostavg – the average number of characters per post
postsperdayavg – the average number of published posts per day

As always, refer to http://maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt for the full list of available codes.

ClickToFlash

Max Pagels — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:40:51 +0000

Yet another of those “I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before” plugins.

Most Popular Tags version 2.8

Max Pagels — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:54:22 +0000

I’ve updated the plugin with two new features: the ability to select a separator if using a “flat” format, and a random ordering option. Some code cleanup and optimization has also been done.

Visit the plugin’s page on WordPress.org for more info.

After the Deadline now supports diaereses

Max Pagels — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:12:27 +0000

Diaereses aren’t used very often anymore, which is a shame.

Most Popular Tags, version 2.6

Max Pagels — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:51:49 +0000

Some minor code & usability improvements in this release. As always, check the project page for more information & installation help.

Common mistakes in WordPress plugins

Max Pagels — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:40:10 +0000

A spot-on article on the “do-not-do”s of WordPress development.

Max Pagels — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:27:14 +0000

Following the news that WordPress.com has turned on support for RSS Cloud, maxpagels.com has also been updated to include this capability, thanks to Joseph Scott’s plugin.

The WordPress blog explains what RSS Cloud support brings to the table:

Right now how most people interact with feeds is by checking that it updated every now and then, usually about once an hour. Can you imagine waiting an hour to get your emails? (The world would probably be more productive.) RSS Cloud is an extra element in your RSS feed that allows subscribers to say “Hey, let me know as soon as you’ve updated, kthx.”

You’ll need an RSS aggregator that supports RSS Cloud to take advantage of this new functionality. Dave Winer’s own River2 is the only one I know that already supports it, but I bet many will follow suit in the near future.

Announcing Shortcode

Max Pagels — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:25:25 +0000

I’m happy to announce the release of a new WordPress plugin of mine called Shortcode.

Since WordPress 2.5, users have been able to insert special macro codes called shortcodes into their blog posts and pages. Shortcode is a plugin that adds useful, preconfigured shortcodes to your WordPress install, ready to use on any post or page you want. Version 0.1 of this plugin has a total of four codes useful for showing off your blog statistics. I plan on updating Shortcode frequently with more (and more diverse) codes.

You can grab the latest version of Shortcode from the WordPress Plugin Directory. I’ve also set up a page for the project.

Most Popular Tags, version 1.1

Max Pagels — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:51:51 +0000

Version 1.1 of the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin has now been released. This point release adds support for absolute font units such as millimeters, centimeters, inches and picas. I’ve also updated the wording used in the plugin to be more descriptive.

The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory (or, if you have an older version already installed on your blog, you can simply use the plugin update function from inside your WordPress install).

Updating the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin

Max Pagels — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:47:58 +0000

I’ve been swamped with work this summer, but have recently found some time to work on some of my projects, including the Most Popular Tags plugin for WordPress. The current version has been verified to work with WordPress versions up to 2.7.1, but as most of you probably know, version 2.8 of WordPress has already been out for a while.

A new version of the plugin, completed with update code and support for multiple widget instances, is currently being worked on and I hope to have the final version ready in a few weeks.

Thanks to each and every one of the 1,270 people (so far) who have downloaded the plugin!