Asides

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!

Fixing a 9-year-old Typo in WordPress

I just patched a fix for a small grammar error in the instructions at the top of the Permalinks Settings page in WordPress (#25210). It fixes a sentence that Matt Mullenweg wrote in 2004 and hasn’t been touched since. I can’t believe no one noticed this over the past 9 years and millions of WordPress installs.

Needless to say, Sergey Biryukov committed the fix within a couple of hours. So, I guess that’s my contribution to WordPress 3.7. I’ve already made more substantial contributions  (both in code and discussion) to WordPress 3.8 via Twenty Fourteen, but I don’t expect to touch much else in 3.7 since it doesn’t address any UI components.