Tag: Wordpress
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Our new tool finds “hidden” WordPress pages exposed by just released WP REST API
In December WordPress 4.7 was released. The most cool part of this release was the inclusion of the WordPress REST API. In development for quite some time it was finally included in core. The WordPress REST API is great for developers because it makes it very easy to get all pages, posts and users from…
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Here is a list of WordPress plugins that Sweden’s largest political parties use
TL;DR: We made a website: partiwebbsidor.se. WordPress is pretty big here in Sweden. Recently we found out that six of the largest political parties use WordPress on their main sites. Here at Earth People we also use WordPress to build sites, so we thought that this it was a pretty cool and interesting fact that all…
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WordPress loops: with_posts() is my way of dealing with them
One of the most boring, cumbersome and dangerous things with WordPress is getting and working with posts in custom loops. A common situation is like this: That’s a bit cumbersome I think. Do I really need to do that while-thingie, that the_post()-method-thingie and that wp_reset_postdata()-thingie each time? It feels a bit… repetitive. And dangerous, since…
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EP Hashimage gets a speedboost
The last few days we have been working on improving the speed if our EP Hashimage plugin. Today, we have released the result, a plugin that loads 70-80% faster when loading from the cache. This is achieved after a complete rewrite of the caching function. It now used the WordPress Transients API. As usual, you find…
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Select networks in EP Hashimage
Today we’ve added a new feature to our EP Hashimage WordPress plugin. You can now (from version 3) choose which networks you want to include in your search for images with a specific hashtag. For example – if you want to print images tagged with #cat but only from the instagram network. That is now…
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EP Social Widget now with shortcode
Our very popular social widget plugin has been updated with shortcode support so that you with ease can display your social links in posts and pages. Here is a short how to. [ep-social-widget facebook=”https://facebook.com” gplus=”https://plus.google.com” rss=”1″] Available networks are facebook gplus twitter flickr youtube rss Just use the one you want to display in your…
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Base64-encoding media assets in WordPress
I needed to serve some WordPress posts as web views to some mobile apps. But the app guys wanted the all the images inside the_content to be encoded into base64-strings, for offline caching. This was made into a tiny little plugin which you can download and use as you see fit. When enabled, this plugin…
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Hashimage updated with async loading
From the start we always felt that we needed to do something about the slow loading of the hashimage plugin. Today we have updated it with the option to use async loading, letting all the heavy work to be done after initial page load. See the settings page for this new option. In this update…
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Hashimage plugin now with widget
Today, our WordPress plugin EP Hashimage has been updated to version 2.2.0. The news is that we added the ability to display images in a widget. You can download the latest version of the plugin over at wordpress.org
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Hashimage WordPress plugin updated
During summer last year we published a dirty site for displaying images from a certain Twitter hashtag. In august the same year we got the question to make it a WordPress plugin. Said and done, we made a plugin a few hours later. Now, it’s updated with some new features and released at WordPress plugin…