If you’re using Akismet to tackle spam on WordPress, there are a number of statistics available to you about your current spam situation. These are all available in the Comments page of your blog, but who wants to go there every day to check up on things. By taking control of WordPress Cron with WP-Crontrol and a couple lines of code, you can receive this information sent by mail every day.
Last week, I released Version 1.0 (and quickly thereafter, Version 1.1) of a WordPress plugin called Plugin Stats! The plugin is designed for WordPress plugin developers to keep track of downloads of their plugins. The plugin graphs the number of downloads in three different ways:
The new version of WP-Crontrol allows you to add new cron entries with code. This allows you to write code that will repeatedly be executed without actually touching any .PHP files. Below, I present a way to utilize this functionality to remind you to post something if you haven’t done so in the past two days.
Over the weekend, I quietly released Twitterdoodle, a WordPress plugin which allows a user to create posts and categories based on Twitter keyword searches. It uses Summize to provide search results.
WP-Crontrol has hit 1.0! The powerful new features in this version allow you to take complete control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Here’s what’s new:
If you use the XML Sitemap Generator and Organize Series plugins for WordPress, then this is something you can use to get your series more noticed by Google and other search engines which pay attention to XML Sitemaps. If you take a look in your sitemap (http://example.com/sitemap.xml), you’ll notice that the series that you’ve been working hard to put together are no where to be seen. That’s because you have to let the Sitemap Generator know about them. The code snippet below, perfect for the functions.php file of your theme, will do just that.
ImmerStat is a plugin I wrote over the weekend after getting tired of the Flash applet that displays statistics for the WordPress.com Stats plugin. It’s overkill when I just want to get a general idea of where I’m sitting at the moment stats-wise. ImmerStat gets rid of the WordPress.com Stats widget from the Dashboard and replaces it with an ever-present .PNG in the top-right corner of the admin screen.
Since the last post on Custom Filtering in the Manage Posts Screen, WordPress 2.5 has been released to the world. While the techniques discussed in that article are still valid, due to the big admin interface rewrite, the results don’t look as pretty as they could. In this post, I’ll discuss updating the code from the previous post so that it works and looks good through all modern WordPress versions.
Welcome to the first post in a series of posts on how to take control of the WP-Cron system using WP-Crontrol. WP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on. In this post, I’ll discuss using WP-Crontrol to add a new cron schedule that can be used by WP Database Backup. This means backups when you want them.
Update (6/6/08): WP-Crontrol has hit 1.0! Check out the release post.
WP-Crontrol is a plugin I wrote that’s been up on WordPress.org for a couple months now, but I’ve just today finished a version that has all the features and polish to be called a release. WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Here’s what it let’s you do:
