Archive for June, 2010
Sitemaps in WordPress
Posted by Dave Jesch in WordPress on June 27, 2010
A friend of mine was looking at my web site a couple days ago. He asked me why I didn’t have an HTML Sitemap available. To be honest, I didn’t really think I needed one since I don’t have that much content. But it got me thinking that a plugin that would automatically generate the Sitemap contents would be a handy thing to have.
So yesterday I sat down for a little bit and hammered something out that will very easily add an HTML based Sitemap to any WordPress page that you like. You just add a simple “shortcode” to the page where you want the Sitemap to appear and — presto: Instant Sitemap. This plugin, used in conjunction with the Google XML Sitemap plugin that I recommend, gives you all the Sitemap features that you could want. Sure, there may be some other plugins that will create a Sitemap for you, but this one is very small and very simple to use. And ease of use is a big thing to many WordPress users.
If you’d like to take the plugin for a test-drive, you can find it here: DIY HTML Sitemap WordPress plugin. And if you’d like to see what the sitemap looks like, you can visit my new Sitemap page. Let me know what you think.
WordPress 3.0 Released
Posted by Dave Jesch in WordPress on June 17, 2010
My last post, just a few days ago, was talking about the third Release Candidate for WordPress 3.0. That release is only a few days old now and Automattic has released a finalized version 3.0.
This release has lots of stuff in it. The one feature that I’ve looked forward to the most is the Custom Content Types. I’ve already worked with them in a beta release, but now I feel confident in moving forward with my plugin development that is going to be using this feature.
They’ve also fixed 1,217 bugs, merged WordPress MultiUser with standard WordPress (important if you’re hosting multiple sites on a single domain), and there’s a new custom menu creation facility (which in the beta looked very promising.)
There’s lots of new stuff in there, as well as a brand new default theme which has lots of features and customizations you can do to it. So goodbye “Default” and “Classic,” hello “TwentyTen.”
WordPress 3.0 RC 3
Posted by Dave Jesch in WordPress on June 11, 2010
The third release candidate for WordPress 3.0 has been released. Automattic is suggesting plugin developers to test their code with this latest release, so my guess is that they’re getting close to completion. Looks like I’ve got some work to do over the weekend, testing some of my own plugins.
