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I’ve been using Twitter Tools for some time now and found it quite useful, however, a much simpler plugin is “Facebook/Twitter Status Updater.” It updates both twitter and Facebook, and it allows you to specify a different headline for the update, instead of just using the post title. Twitter tools also requires something to be appended to the beginning like “Blog Update:” and this plugin doesn’t.

Twitter Tools has many more advanced features for Twitter, but lacks the Facebook update. If all you want to do is update your blog, Twitter, and Facebook from one place, this is the plugin for.

The only drawback I can see is that if you’re logged into Facebook when you publish a post, you will be automatically logged out.

Thanks Francesco Castaldo for a great plugin.

Change Attachment Parent allows you to edit the parent value of anything in the media library. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes a wordpress plugin is not the proper solution for an complex application. You might want something to work alongside wordpress instead. One of the nice features of Worpress is the user managament. The Wordpress documentation for this is non-existant as far as I ca tell, so here’s how you can quickly have your software find out if a user is logged in outside of Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »

You ever get an error like this from your feeds generated by Wordpress?

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://www.yoursite.tld/utils/test.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

Somewhere along the line a new line was being placed before the XML declaration in the feeds. This caused an error to display in Firefox and other browsers instead of the feed. Read the rest of this entry »

I was having some issues adding sub-categories that had duplicate names, but unique slugs. I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but since the slug is the unique key, it doesn’t make sense to me why you couldn’t be able to have duplicate names if the slug is unique. Anyways, here is a hack, not a plugin, so you’ll need to fix it again if you update Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »