I recently migrated my site from WordPress to Ghost to try it out, perhaps I will give my opinions of Ghost in another post. I wanted to have comments on this blog however unlike WordPress, Ghost doesn’t have native commenting. Therefore I needed a third party option. I first considered Disqus but I read a few bad things about their practices so they were out of the picture. Enter Commento....
Image Manipulation for Amazon SiteStripe is a simple WordPress plugin that can be used to make some minor manipulation for images sourced from Amazon SiteStripe. It was originally developed to make working with the Amazon Associates SiteStripe images a bit easier as they easy to manipulate once the HTML is added to your site. It simply centres the image and scales it up a bit, as the image size provided by Amazon are small....
YouTube can be an addictive beast, especially with its recommended videos. I sometimes found myself spending far too much time watching the next recommended videos after only intending to watch the original video. Now extensions already exist to solve this problem. However I thought this would be a good opportunity to build a browser extension myself which I have wanted to do for a while. So that is the origin of this extension....
Comment Out is a very simple WordPress plug-in developed to allow users to keep text in posts but not display it on the live page. I mainly built this plugin as a way to try out Wordpress Plugin development as well as get into hobby/side project programming. It uses shortcodes to designate which text should be hidden to viewers. The plugin also provides a page that lists all the current comments you have across your site....