bStat Features
UPDATE: bstat has been updated. bStat is a hit and search term stats tracking plugin for WordPress. In addition to reporting lists of popular stories and popular search terms, it will report recent...
View Articlebstat Beta 4 Release
[[pageindex]]UPDATE: shout outs to Zach, Cliff, Justin, and Thomas who’ve submitted bug reports. Their feedback has been rolled in to the B4 July 20 release, available now (look for the link below)....
View Articlebsuite Development
bstat has become bsuite. The name change reflects the fact that I want the plugin to do a lot more than track usage stats. One of the first features to enter testing here is the “related” section...
View Articlebstat Japan!
It looks like bstat has been localized for Japan! With that in mind, I’d love to hear from international users about what I can do to make localization easier. There will be some big changes in the...
View Articlebsuite_innerindex WordPress Plugin
[[pageindex]] About “Blogging” typically connotes short-form writing that needs little internal structure, but that’s no reason to cramp your style. As people start to explore WordPress‘s Pages...
View ArticleIntroducing bsuite_speedcache
I wrote bsuite_speedcache to reduce the number of database queries I was executing per page load. By implementing it on some of the content in my sidebar, I dropped 35 queries for each cache hit. That...
View Articlebsuggestive and bsuite Tag Support
bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called “bsuggestive” that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive...
View Articlebsuite WordPress Plugin (b2 release)
[innerindex]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. The name change reflects that fact that the plugin is doing a lot more than simply track page loads. The...
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bsuite Features: The Photo Spread
bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site. — – — bsuite uses...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2b)
[innerindex]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week. Fixes A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases. A silly mistake of mine that cause...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v3)
[innerindex]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users. Fixed Previous versions would throw errors at the bottom of the page when the...
View ArticleWordPress 2.0 & bsuite
Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. WordPress 2.0 is out and available for download now. I don’t know how the development team did it — I mean with the holidays and all — but here it is. And now I...
View Articlebsuite Feature: User Contributed Tags
Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite. There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether...
View ArticleMore bsuite Hacking
Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v6)
[innerindex]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available. It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features,...
View Articlebsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v7)
[innerindex]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is...
View ArticlebSuite 3 Released
[innerindex]I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. I renamed it bSuite...
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Language Translation Icon
We all need a recognized icon to represent “translate this.” We’ve got one for feeds and social bookmarking, but where’s our translate icon? A lot of folks simply use flags, but that’s a bad idea...
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bSuite 4 Public Beta
I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard.net is a lot of fun), kicked me into gear to actually get...
View ArticlebSuite 4 beta 2
I announced the bSuite 4 public beta not long ago, now I’ve just posted a new version to SVN that addresses some of the bugs and fleshes out some of the features. I have yet to update the bSuite page,...
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Do WordPress Pages Better With bSuite
ContentsWrite excerpts, tag, and categorize your pagesAutomatically insert anchors in your pageAutomatically list sub-pagesAutomatically list sub-pages with excerptsWordPress‘ Pages feature makes the...
View ArticleTricky Uses of bSuite
After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. The cool thing about writing Pages in WordPress is that I can create a taxonomy like...
View ArticleSlideshare WordPress Embed Shortcode
I’m cleaning house in bSuite, and I’ve decided that this shortcode function for embedding Slideshare items in WordPress needs to go. Rather than totally toss it away, however, I’m posting it here in...
View ArticleWufoo Forms WordPress Embed Shortcode
I tossed this together a while ago, and it even made it in to bSuite for a time, but I don’t have a need for it anymore, and I’m cleaning house. function shortcode_wufoo( $arg ){ // [wufoo id=z7x4m0...
View ArticleThe translate icon however says to me that a computer is going to translate...
The translate icon however says to me that a computer is going to translate something for me automatically, on demand. It’s probably not going to be as good as a human-translated page.
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