Härligt nördigt.

So a new SEO-plugin for WordPress eh? Doesn’t it already exist like a thousand of them?

Probably. But none like mine.

I got tired of all the fancy SEO-plugins out there with a huge amount of options that I never use. So I created Simple SEO. My own plugin with only the features that I care about: the page title and the menu label.

Actually, the plugin is a lot about usability and aesthetics too. It’s not very nice, and often not very user friendly, to have the same text as the page title, in the URL, as the menu label and as the headline. 4 places with the same text is probably 3 to many.

View more info and see more screenshots at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-seo/.

Jag har bara testat programmet i några minuter. Men när jag trycker CMD+X och sen CMD+V så flyttas faktiskt den fil eller mapp jag hag markerat. Och det är väl i princip allt jag behöver veta för att rekommendera programmet.

Kostar $4.99 förresten. I demoversionen kan man bara flytta en fil i taget. Jag ska utvärdera en stund men sen blir det nog till att spendera mina sista slantar på detta program. Helt enkelt för att jag inte har något val.

As some of you know, my plugin show a tree (like in Windows Explorer or OS X Finder) with all the pages in your site. In this tree you can quickly use expand/collapse to show sub-pages and you can drag-and-drop to change the order or to move pages. To cut it short: It’s page management simplified!

Before this update all the pages belonging to all different languages where mixed together in the tree. With this update however you can now select between all the languages configured in WPML, so the tree will only show one language at a time. I think WPML and CMS Tree Page View both are great plugins and what could be better than both plugins working fine together?

I am releasing this beta version of CMS Tree Page View so you brave WPML-users out there can test it and report any bugs to me before I upload it to wordpress.org. Download the beta version here: http://bit.ly/c2kmdf and report any bugs to me at par.thernstrom@gmail.com.

And now for a little bonus feature: this beta version of CMS Tree Page View can also show custom post types – a much asked for feature.

Here is a screenshot showing both the WPML-functions and the custom post type in action:

On a web site you often have pages with sub-pages/children and often you want to style these pages a bit different. Perhaps add a plus-sign or an arrow in front of the page. When I was working with Nice Navigation for WordPress I noticed that this was not possible by default in WordPress. It is however pretty easy to fix. Just add this code to your functions.php:

add_filter('page_css_class', 'nice_navigation_page_css_class', 10, 2);
/**
 * adds class "page-has-children" to all pages that have children
 * @param array $class.    The page css class being modified, passed as an array from Walker_Page
 * @param object $page.    The page object passed from Walker_Page
 * @return array            Returns the new page css class.
 */
function nice_navigation_page_css_class($class, $page) {
 // check if current page has children
 $children = get_pages('child_of='.$page->ID);
 if (sizeof($children) > 0) {
  $class[] = "page-has-children";
 }

 return $class;
}

Now every page outputted by wp_list_pages have the class ”page-has-children” and you can style them any way you want.

It looks something like this…

… and you can find more info and a download link on it’s own page http://eskapism.se/code-playground/nice-navigation/

This time it’s a history/change log/audit/recent changes-plugin called ”Simple History”. Just take a look at this screenshot and you will get the hang of it:

It fits perfectly on your dashboard – or on a separate page, if you prefer that – and it shows you the most recent changes that has been made within WordPress. What articles have been created, modified or deleted? What attachments have been uploaded, modified or deleted? And so on. It’s a pretty good plugin to have on websites where several people are involved: ”Has someone done anything today? Ah, Sarah uploaded the new press release and created an article for it. Good. Now I know.”

And it’s a beta version!

I don’t want to start to sound like Google here, but the plugin is in beta. Until it’s available on wordpress.org (I’m waiting for ”approvement”) you can find the plugin here: http://eskapism.se/code-playground/simple-history/

So far CMS Tree Page View have had nearly 6.000 downloads, and my introductory screencast have had almost 2.500 views on YouTube. I have also recieved an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from users. Just look at these wonderful quotes that I have revieved in blog comments or through Twitter:

”Wonderful plugin that makes handling pages in WP much much easier.”

”Excellent!”

”Oh my Goodness, I needed this plug in so bad. Thank you, thank you, thank you”

”I love this plugin”

”What a great plugin! Works like charm …”

”Awesome plugin.”

”Awesome! Thank you, CMS Tree Page View is a huge help in organizing ”

”Extremely useful for large sites.”

Personaly I must say that I no longer can use WordPress without CMS Tree Page View. I simply depend on it! It’s just that good,  that simple, and that effective. A cornerstone in any WordPress CMS installation for me in the future.

Shortly thereafter – but after a lot of work – I released my second plugin ”Simple Fields” to further extend the CMS capabilities of  WordPress. Simple Fields gives WordPress the ability to add almost any kind of content to a single post. Just as with CMS Tree Page View, I can no longer use WordPress without this plugin. Yes, it’s just that good too!

So far Simple Fields have had nearly 600 downloads and I have received pretty much positive feedback. Not as much as with CMS Tree Page View, but I think that’s OK: Simple Fields is a far more complex plugin, targeted at advanced users, and it requires WordPress 3. So when WordPress 3 is released I expect the number of users and downloads to raise.

Anyway, with this blog post I just want to say ”thank you” to all you users out there who download my plugins and give me me positive feedback. You make me wanna keep on doing this!

Dom senaste två cyklarna har varit av modellen Skeppshult V (och Skeppshults dåliga webbplats är fortfarande så pass skapad att jag inte kan länka direkt till cykeln – skäms på er!) och tyvärr måste jag säga att jag inte varit så nöjd med dom. Dom har krånglat, låtit illa, varit osköna att cykla på, haft dålig utväxling och så har dom dessutom ingen framlampa som standard. Därför var jag lite sugen denna gång att köpa en annan Skeppshult, en Arc Bas t.ex. Men i försäkringspappret jag fick idag står det att jag kan hämta ”Varan Skeppshult V” och med tanke på att det är ett stort och styggt försäkringsbolag så utgår jag från att förhandlingschansen är minimal. Men jag ska försöka ändå. Håll tummarna!

Ps. Hade jag haft råd hade jag givetvis köpt en Pilen igen. Ds.

Update: Men jo! Det gick igenom: Länsförsäkringar säger OK till att jag plockar ut en annan modell. Happy happy, joy joy. Nu måste jag bara spara ihop pengar till självrisken på 1.500:-….

With Rightzoom enabled, whenever you click the green button on your windows, they maximize. Very nice indeed. Best of all is the option to only enable the maximize function if you hold down the option key while you click. This is the way I prefer.

For me, this is definitely a keeper.

More info and download: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/rightzoom