Category: WordPress Plugins

QuickShare 1.4

I recently released version 1.4 of QuickShare, my favorite social content-sharing WordPress plugin. There are several new features, tweaks and bugfixes, in what is the most notable update since version 1.0.

My favorite feature is the addition of a [quickshare] shortcode (that’s the shortcode – it’s just “quickshare”). This allows you to place QuickShare exactly where you want within the post/page, and you can even have multiple instances. The best part is that adding this extremely versatile feature was super easy, it only took 5 lines of code (including the comment). That’s the power of WordPress!

Floating Social Media Links Re-think

Floating Social Media Links had humble beginnings as my first WordPress plugin. I originally got the idea for the plugin when working on maintenance for http://oregonyouthline.org/. We needed a better solution for our social media links and actions (ie, Facebook like) than a column of super outdated icons (including a MySpace one) on the homepage (the old icons ended up…