Category Archives: WordPress

Liked/Not Liked Content Support Added to Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress

Posted on February 26, 2011 by david

Facebook Tab Manager 2.3 lets you specify that content should be shown or not shown depending on whether the viewer has Liked the page that your tab is embedded in. Add like=”1″ to the fbtab shortcode if content should only … Continue reading →

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How to Pull Blog Content Into a Facebook Page Tab

Posted on February 24, 2011 by david

This is a usage example for the Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress plugin, which lets you create and edit content to be displayed on Facebook from within the WordPress editor. This is the clippings page tab for my work as … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook Tab manager, Marketing and Publicity, Web Development, WordPress | 8 Comments

Updates to Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress

Posted on February 22, 2011 by david

I continue to update Facebook Tab Manager aggressively, maybe too much so. I really should have called the first version 0.1, as I’ve now put out so many upgrades and fixes that it’s at version 2.1 — less than two … Continue reading →

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Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress Shortcode Options

Posted on February 16, 2011 by david

Facebook Tab Manager has been upgraded to include a few new shortcode options. To include a JavaScript widget, such as one of the Facebook Social Plugins, paste it into the WordPress editor in Visual mode and wrap it with [fbtab]WIDGET-CONTENT-HERE[/fbtab]. The shortcode processing … Continue reading →

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Experiments with Facebook iframe Tabs, Facebook Tab Manager WordPress Plugin

Posted on February 13, 2011 by david

I’ve been doing a bunch of experiments with the new Facebook iframe page tabs and have cooked up a Facebook Tab Manager plugin for WordPress, which works pretty well. This plugin lets you compose and edit content for your a … Continue reading →

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RSVPMaker WordPress Plugin Passes the Version 1.0 Mark

Posted on January 31, 2011 by david

Over the weekend, I posted version 1.0 of my RSVPMaker WordPress plugin … swiftly followed by version 1.1 with some bug fixes. Still, it’s a milestone, even if only an arbitrary one. I called the initial release in November 0.6, … Continue reading →

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My Open Source Adventure with RSVPMaker

Posted on January 15, 2011 by david

After several years of mooching off the open source software community, I finally gave something back: an event management and RSVP tracking plugin for WordPress called RSVPMaker. You can see some sample events and respond to the RSVPs at www.rsvpmaker.com, … Continue reading →

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Caspio Deploy2 Plugin Published

Posted on January 11, 2011 by david

A new WordPress plugin for integration with the Caspio online database is now available at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/caspio-deploy2/ I reviewed the previous plugin the company had published and was able to recommend a better way of implementing it, using WordPress shortcodes. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Tutorial on WordPress Plugin Programming – Part 3

Posted on November 30, 2010 by david

Part 1 Introduction, API Basics, Custom Admin Menus Part 2 Handling form posts, setting and retreiving options, database queries and updates Part 3 Shortcodes, contact form example, adding JavaScript Using Shortcodes Most of the custom functionality I’ve shown so far … Continue reading →

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Tutorial on WordPress Plugin Programming – Part 2

Posted on November 29, 2010 by david

In Part 1, I mocked up a Posts submenu for adding a quote of the day to the blog. To complete this example, I’ll show how we can process the form when it is posted, perform a basic security check, … Continue reading →

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