Corey Salzano

I just wrote a new plugin to disable commenter names from linking to the website URLs they may provide when commenting. Some themes allow commenters to provide a home page URL along with their comment. The comment author’s name then becomes a link to that website wherever it appears on your site. This plugin removes… Continue reading Disable comment author links in WordPress

Bottom of every post is a WordPress plugin I wrote in July of 2011. This plugin is a simple filter that adds some content to the bottom of each post. I thought for sure a plugin like this would already exist, and I was surprised to find a few very complex solutions with way more… Continue reading Add content to the bottom of every WordPress post

I launched a new WordPress plugin to export a blog’s comments. Specifically, this plugin creates a tab-delimited text version of the wp_comments database table. Options include approved, pending or spam (or any combination of) comments. This page will soon expand. For now… Download this plugin from WordPress.org

I learned something today about WordPress that I would like to share. The “break comments into pages” feature can create duplicate content for all posts that have only a single page of comments. I made this graphic to explain exactly what happens.

This plugin redirects users of your WordPress website to any page you like after they publish a new post or log out. You can provide any URL, so the page can even be on a different website altogether. Landing pages can help coordinate, congratulate or incentivize users who are already interacting with your website. I… Continue reading Landing page triggers WP plugin free version

I wrote a WordPress plugin to modify the behavior of the recent comments widget. Since WP version 2.8.0, popular widgets have been included as core functionality. I don’t like how the recent comments widget works, so I changed it. Instead of displaying the post titles that received comments, my plugin shows comment excerpts. I made… Continue reading WP Plugin: Recent comments widget with excerpts

When a new user creates an account on a wordpress.org blog, the administrator is sent a notification email. Websites that have a large number of signups each day can generate a lot of emails announcing each new user. I wrote a simple WordPress plugin to disable the new user notification email. Visit this plugin’s page… Continue reading Disable WordPress New User Email Notification

I wrote a WordPress plugin that displays a small collection of site stats in a sidebar widget. Here is a screen shot of sample output: Widget options screen shot The widget includes a control panel to change the title and format the HTML that is inserted before and after each numerical stat. Installation Instructions Download… Continue reading WordPress Sidebar Stats Widget