New plugin: Top Pretty ...

Thanks to Twitter, URL shortening services are basically a must. What bothers me is that by using them, you are giving them all your statistical data. Some of them offer you an account to log in and view some basic stats and then charge you if you want additional reporting. Bah! That...

RoloPress review

Tweet Since starting 9seeds back in October, we’ve collected a fair amount of contact information for clients and prospects. The trouble is, we don’t really have a single place where we can keep that information and share it between our geographically diverse team....

WordPress and the need ...

A few weeks back I attended WordCamp New York. While there I was asked to take part in a discussion on canonical plugins for WordPress. I had heard of the concept but not the terminology. In case you are in the same boat, to make a plugin canonical would be to mark it as the suggested...

Building a plugin

I’ve always thought it would be cool to write my own WordPress plugins. Plenty of times I’ve taken existing plugins and tweaked them here or there to do a slightly modified version of their original intent, but never have I started from scratch and created my own plugin. Until...

Blog Tip: Clean Your Bl...

I just set a reminder in my phone to repeat every 2 months. It says 3 simple words; CLEAN YOUR BLOG! I logged in to the admin section of JohnHawkinsUnrated the other night and was checking the plugin page when I realized I had to scroll down a page and a half to get to the plugin I was...