Published on Tuesday, January 17 2012
Inspired by seeing comments in Google+ about the need for a WordPress cross-post, I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin: WPGPLus.
For now, since the Google+ API is read-only, I’m borrowing inspiration from Luka Puši?’s GPlus Bot and Dmitry Sandalov’s Twitter 2 Google Plus script.
This means emulating the Google+ mobile web experience using Curl.
WPGPlus adds a box to the post edit screen where you can choose yes/no for publishing to Google+, as well as a place for a message to be used in the body.
(If you provide a Google+ message it is used; if you provide a post excerpt it is used; otherwise post content is used).
Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think!
Published on Monday, January 16 2012
Photo by Peter Wood, cc-by-nc-nd license.
This last weekend I finally got drafted and posted Closing the Books on WordCamp Boston 2011 over on WCBOS site.
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Published on Tuesday, January 10 2012
Over the last year I’ve served as a reviewer for a few books for Packt Publishing, focused on WordPress:
All three have now been published and are worth checking out. Details of each below.
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Published on Wednesday, January 4 2012
OK, no more testing, no more publishing and unpublishing this page.
WPBook 2.3 is released. This uses the same Facebook SDK (3.1.1) as WPBook Lite which I just released last weekend – this will make it easier to manage both.
It will also let me start work on adding more features to the plugin- a more stable base to work from.
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Published on Tuesday, January 3 2012
Difficult Choices. (Photo by Beppie K, cc-by-nc-sa license)
Over in the WordPress Support forums for WPBook, WPBook user TheCitizen was asking about the absence of “share” links on Wall Excerpts posted via WPBook. I responded that in my experience posts made via the API (by an App, rather than by the user directly) don’t get “share” links inside Facebook.
He pointed to Facebook Page Publish, a WordPress plugin which also cross-posts to Facebook (though it does not import comments). Posts made via this plugin do get a share link.
Digging in a bit, I realized that Facebook Page Publish uses the Link object in the Facebook Graph API, whereas WPBook and WPBook Lite both use a Post object.
What’s the difference? That’s what I’m trying to determine now.
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