Apostolos Dountsis

An updated version of the Social Bookmarks 4 WordPress plugin is now available. This version does not include any new features. It addresses the AJAX hide-show and the Nifty 404 bugs.

You can download it from the usual location.

How many times you have stumbled upon a theme or a plug-in that you want to test on your site? WordPress does not offer a preview feature so the only option is to make it live which should not be the prefered (and only) option while testing or in general experimenting with new features.

In this article, we will investigate how we can setup a copy of our WordPress powered site on a local machine will serve as a development and test environment.

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I am happy to announce that Social Bookmarks 4.0 is now available. The previous version had over 8500 downloads. I hope that the new version continues on the success of the previous versions.

Social Bookmarks 4 is possibly the biggest release of the plugin. For a start, it features a new look-and-feel with AJAX and new buttons. The code base has been completely re-written. Also, this version introduces localization to the plugin. You can now download additional language packs from the site to gain access to language specific sites. A template pack is also available so that you can write your own language packs. Finally, the number of included sites out of the box is now 50.

Just head to the Downloads section and grab it!

The next major revision of the Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress is almost complete. Social Bookmarks 4 has a number of new features and fixes of existing problems that people have reported. The number of supported sites has increased exponentially even with the removal of a couple sites that are now history.

The changes do not affect only the behind the scene code (which has been completely re-written). Also, the front-end of the plugin (the part that your visitors see when they visit your posts and/or pages) has a new look-and-feel with new buttons and the use of AJAX. It is the first time that the front-end gets an overhaul but after 4 major revisions, I felt that a flesh look was a good idea.

Possibly the most exciting new feature is that the plugin now can be localized by downloading additional Language Packs. Social Bookmarks 4 ships with a list of English international social bookmarking sites. However, If you are running a German site then you may want to have German social sites included as well. With version 4, you can download a German Language pack which will give you the ability to have both the English international sites and the German ones on your disposal.

For those who want to create Language Packs, a Language Template Pack will be available for download which has all the files and information required to develop your pack. The separation of the Social Bookmarks core and the Language Packs will ease people that until now were re-bundling my plugin with their sites.

I am looking for volunteers who want to develop Language Packs. I could host the packs on the downloads section of the site so that there is one central place for the plugin and its language packs. If you are interested, then use the contact form in the about section of the site to contact me stating which language pack you want to develop for.

Update: The plugin is now available through the Download section of the site.

I have released a new plugin for the WordPress users. I was surprised when I realized that WordPress does not offer a way of moving comments between posts or pages. Move Comments is a WordPress plugin that allows comments to be moved from one page or post to another.

I spent some time tweaking the interface, trying to make it simple and efficient. Comments are filtered by post or page that they belong to and multiple comments can be selected and move to the target page or post.

Visit the Move Comments home page for more info and the download link.