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Have you ever dreamed of extracting useful metadata from WordPress plugins? Probably you haven’t. But if you ever need a way to parse a plugin’s readme.txt, or want to simplify metadata generation for the custom update checker, here’s a couple of utility functions that may come in handy. I […] Continue Reading…

Last updated on June 26, 2015.

Since time immemorial, only plugins hosted in the official WordPress.org plugin directory have supported automatic updates. Now, I’ve written a PHP library that you can use to add automatic update capabilities to any plugin. Public, private and commercial plugins alike – all can now […] Continue Reading…

WP-DBManager is a handy plugin that can, among other things, make periodic database backups and send them to a specified email address. I installed it on this blog months ago and up until a week ago everything was working perfectly. Then one day the backup emails simply stopped coming.
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As you may remember, I’ve been running a little AdSense experiment on this site. Here’s a brief summary for new readers:
The core motivation for the experiment was to test the prevalent assumption that people coming from search engines are the ones most likely to click on ads. To this […] Continue Reading…

micro-tweet is an ultra-minimalist Twitter client that fits in a tweet. It can only do two things – display your friends tweets (one at a time) and post new tweets. It’s written in Python and works entirely from the command line.

Source Code

The source code of micro-tweet is exactly 137 […] Continue Reading…