Comments on: DIY WordPress – World’s Shortest Plugin

By: Cyle

Cyle — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:10:16 +0000

I liked the article, but just curious.. how do you cut your rss short in wordpress?
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By: Antti Kokkonen – When it has to be done right | Website In A Weekend

Antti Kokkonen – When it has to be done right | Website In A Weekend — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:15:24 +0000

[...] DIY WordPress – World’s Shortest Plugin. If you need to know exactly how WordPress handles registering plugins, you need to read this very short, 3 point article. With screencast. [...]

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:39:16 +0000

Sweet! You’re the first linked.

Early April I’ll have more beginning plugin programming articles.

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By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:51 +0000

Thank you for this! I have had “figure out how to build my own plugins” in my TODO list for months now – I’ll be following this closely.

It works, too:
http://skitch.com/rickybuchanan/n3ra5/minimal-plugin

tada!!
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:57:36 +0000

I have 2-3 dozen articles worth of material on plugins, but that’s way too much for the audience here. I like posting on this topic, but these articles get too little short term traffic, too risky.

On the other hand, long term, these articles suck down SERPs like an industrial vac. (And they provide me credibility with people who actually know WTF is going on.)

So I balance alienating short term readers with long term search results.

As for you point about plugins versus coding it into your theme, that particular article (or suite of articles) is Weekender newsletter list only. Actually, it’s going to be members only (hint hint hint), but as a Weekender, you get grandfathered in as I promised back in March (?) last year.
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By: Deacon

Deacon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:39 +0000

Nice! I’m getting over a cold myself.

Are you going to add to this over time? There have been a few things that I have thought would be much better as a plugin than as me going in and hard coding it into my theme. I should probably have a general proficiency with this.
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By: Cebu Tech Blogger

Cebu Tech Blogger — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:42 +0000

Thanks for this tip, Dave. Honestly, very informative. I’m very busy this week, I hope I can migrate this month…
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:41 +0000

Nice.

This article has already been ripped off for a multiple placement on a cell phone sales site.

Jerks.

I’m going to start cutting off parts of my RSS feed in the future, especially for technical articles, and surely for articles containing Esss Eeee Ohhh.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:20:15 +0000

Anne, I’ll never need to “discuss” how WordPress treats plugins.
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By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:21:06 +0000

It’s nice to know. I’ll let someone else practice, I trust your word on it actually working like that ;)
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