samgruskin

<p>Plugin homepage: http://samgruskin.com/programming/blog-update-reminder/</p>
<p>Blog Update Reminder is designed to remind a WordPress blog’s author(s) with an email if they haven’t made a blog post in a set number of days. When this plugin is installed, it automatically finds all authors (users) of the blog, and sets their “interval of days” to zero. The list of authors in Blog Update Reminder’s settings will automatically update with the addition or removal of WordPress blog users. The list of users and their set “interval of days” can be viewed from Blog Update Reminder’s settings panel, found under the WordPress “Settings” menu.</p>
<p>The setting of zero (“0”) means that Blog Update Reminder will be disabled for that user, and that user will not receive any reminder emails. Each user’s interval of days can be set and customized individually so that it will remind an author when a blog post hasn’t been made in a set amount of time. The plugin will email the user once the amount of time since the last blog post has surpassed the set “interval of days”. No emails will be sent while the number of days since the last post remains lower than the set “interval of days”. So, in order for a user to stop receiving email reminders, the user will need to make a blog post or update his/her Blog Update Reminder settings.</p>
<p>By default, this plugin will send email reminders to its users on a daily basis after the interval of days since a blog post has passed. The frequency of the email reminders can be modified on the settings page found in a drop-down menu.</p>
<p>This plugin uses WordPress’ built-in functionality for cron-jobs. This means that in order for this plugin to function properly and send reminder emails to its users, the blog’s website must be accessed by anyone at least once per day. Otherwise, the users will receive their reminder emails the next time someone visits the blog website.</p>
<p>Due to this plugin’s simple and small data structure, all settings are saved in a file called ‘blogreminder.data’ in the same directory as ‘blogreminder.php’. Do not delete this file, otherwise Blog Update Reminder will return user’s settings to the default interval of days, zero (“0”).  If there are errors creating or writing to the file, check permissions on the <code>/wp-content/plugins/blog-update-reminder/</code> directory.</p>
<h3>Background and Contact</h3>
<p><em>A little background story…</em></p>
<p>I designed this WordPress plugin for a company I worked for, Carma Systems, Inc. (http://www.carmasys.com/). We have an internal company blog to keep our different teams in touch with eachother, and up to date on the work we do. It is important to everyone at the company to keep the blog updated, but it is easy to forget about it when everyone is busy! That’s how Blog Update Reminder was born… the internal blog has many authors, and each author has different requirements for how often they should post, if at all. The system works, because blog authors are sent an email daily (or any specified frequency) until a blog post is made (it’s kind of like, the plugin won’t stop annoying you until you do what you’re supposed to do!). Everyone enjoys the plugin, because authors are happy that they won’t forget about making a post, and our internal blog readers benefit from staying up to date with the latest company news.</p>
<p>I feel that my plugin can work as a solution for many types of blogs. An individual may have a commitment to regularly make posts on his/her personal blog, or a company/group may have several people that need to make posts but some people may need to post more frequently than others. All in all, this plugin can keep a blog from dying, which happens too often (unfortunately) in the real world.</p>
<p>This is my first WordPress plugin, and I had a lot of fun developing it! I hope other people will find it useful too. I appreciate any feedback (such as additional features and bugs), feel free to email me at sam@samgruskin.com. Thanks and enjoy! 🙂</p>
<p>http://samgruskin.com/programming/blog-update-reminder/</p>


Blog Update Reminder

Track one or multiple authors' blog posting frequency and email-notifies these authors if they haven't posted within a set timeframe.

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<p>Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress plugin to cut/excerpt your posts displayed in home, search or archive pages. This plugin also enables you to customize the read more button text and thumbnail image. Just activate the plugin, configure some options and you’re good to go 🙂</p>
<p>ECAE only works on themes that call <code>the_content()</code> or <code>the_excerpt()</code> on home, search & archive pages. ECAE does not support themes that use custom functions to display excerpt, like Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZZaXfrB4-68?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>The free version comes with everything you need to auto excerpt your content.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://coba.tonjoostudio.com/" title="Live demos of ECAE" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> | <a href="http://wpexcerptplugin.com/" title="Get the premium version" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Premium Version</a> | <a href="https://tonjoostudio.com/product/easy-custom-auto-excerpt-premium/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ecae#manual" title="ECAE Documentation" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://forum.tonjoostudio.com/thread-category/easy-custom-auto-excerpt/" title="ECAE Support forum" rel="nofollow ugc">Support Forum</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Excerpt your posts based on character length.</li>
<li>Choose to excerpt your posts on home, search, archive, or custom archive pages.</li>
<li>Align text (Justify, Right, Left, Center) your text based on your preference.</li>
<li>Custom Read More text and Button.</li>
<li>Preserve Image on Excerpt.</li>
<li>Preserve real excerpt you wrote.</li>
<li>Partial Indonesian and Spanish translation.</li>
<li>Enable excerpt on RSS feed.</li>
<li>Excerpt method by 1st paragraph, 2nd paragraph, and 3rd paragraph</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Features:</h4>
<p>And if you like our plugin and want to do more customization we offer the premium version with some added features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adjust Image Excerpt Position (left, right, center, float left and float right)</li>
<li>Adjust Image width and margin</li>
<li>Disable excerpt on specific post</li>
<li>10 Read More font type and custom font size</li>
<li>40+ Read More button themes.</li>
<li>Customize button HTML</li>
</ul>
<p>Get the premium version: <a href="http://wpexcerptplugin.com/" title="Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium</a></p>
<h4>Plugin Demo</h4>
<p>You can try the plugin on this URL: http://coba.tonjoostudio.com</p>
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<p>username: coba<br />
  password: 123456</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Information</h4>
<p>if you have any questions, comment, customization request or suggestion please contact us via our <a href="https://forum.tonjoostudio.com/thread-category/easy-custom-auto-excerpt/" rel="nofollow ugc">support forum</a></p>
<p>Find more detail on our official site: <a href="https://tonjoostudio.com/product/easy-custom-auto-excerpt-premium/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ecae" title="Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium</a></p>
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<p>We can also modify your WordPress plugins according to your needs. Visit us : <a href="https://tonjoo.com/" title="Tonjoo WordPress Developer" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Tonjoo WordPress Developer</a></p>
<h4>Install Instruction</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin.</li>
<li>In the Admin Panel, Go to Excerpt -> Settings.</li>
<li>Customize the settings according to your need.</li>
<li>To remove read more link, fill read more text with “-” (without quote)</li>
</ol>
<p>Please have a time to understand how this plugin is generating excerpt :</p>
<ol>
<li>If the post has read more, then the read more will be used.</li>
<li>If the post doesn’t have read more, then post excerpt will be used.</li>
<li>If the post doesn’t have read more and excerpt, then it will automagically generate excerpt.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage Instruction</h3>
<h4>General Options</h4>
<ol>
<li>Excerpt method
<ul>
<li>Paragraph method will cut per paragraph</li>
<li>Character method will cut per character based on characters count of Excerpt Size</li>
<li>The left options is to only show one or more paragraph from beginning of the content</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Excerpt Size
<ul>
<li>The number of characters to show based on Paragraph or Character Excerpt Method</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Strip shortcode
<ul>
<li>If you select ‘yes’ any shortcode will be eliminated from the excerpt</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Strip empty HTML tags
<ul>
<li>If you select ‘yes’ any empty HTML tags will be eliminated from the excerpt</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Disable on RSS Feed
<ul>
<li>Disable this plugin on RSS feed page</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Special method
<ul>
<li>This basically will fix some error on some themes</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Content Options</h4>
<ol>
<li>Text align
<ul>
<li>The plugin will try to align the excerpt</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Display Image Options</h4>
<ol>
<li>Content image
<ul>
<li>Option to select what image to show on the excerpt</li>
<li><strong>“Show all images”</strong> will show all the images on the visible content</li>
<li><strong>“Show only first image”</strong> will only show the first image on the content</li>
<li><strong>“Use Featured Image”</strong> will show the post’s featured image</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Image position, Image width, and Image margin <strong>[PREMIUM VERSION]</strong>
<ul>
<li>This options is to configure how to show the image</li>
<li>This options is work only on Content Image: Show Only First Image and Use Featured Image</li>
<li>Below the screenshots of the some image options</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Image thumbnail size <strong>[PREMIUM VERSION]</strong>
<ul>
<li>This is an option so select what image size to show</li>
<li>This options is work only on Content Image: Use Featured Image</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Excerpt location</h4>
<ol>
<li>Basic settings
<ul>
<li>Option to determine the location to show the excerpt, i.e. blog page, front page, archive page, and search page</li>
<li>User can also select which page to enable the excerpt</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Advanced settings
<ul>
<li>This is an advanced settings of the location, which is users can select the post type or category to show on the each option, like blog page or front page</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Read more button</h4>
<ol>
<li>Display option
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal</strong> : show readmore button, only if content length is bigger than excerpt size</li>
<li><strong>Always Show</strong> : always show the readmore button</li>
<li><strong>Always Hide</strong> : always hide the readmore button</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Read more text
<ul>
<li>The text to show on read more link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Text after content
<ul>
<li>The text located right after the content, for example dots “[…]”. This element can be styled by css with selector “.ecae-dots”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Inline Button
<ul>
<li>The plugin will try to make the read more link inline with the paragraph</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Readmore align
<ul>
<li>The plugin will try to align the read more link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Button font <strong>[PREMIUM VERSION]</strong>
<ul>
<li>The font of read more link and the text before link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Button font size <strong>[PREMIUM VERSION]</strong>
<ul>
<li>The font size of read more link and the text before link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Text before button link
<ul>
<li>Text before read more link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Button link type <strong>[SEPARATED PREMIUM VERSION]</strong>
<ul>
<li>The style of read more link<br />
> Notes: both Read more text and Text before link can be translated with WPML string translation. After you save the ECAE option, go to the WPML String Translation and then search for domain name “easy-custom-auto-excerpt”. The text is the one named “Readmore text” and “Before readmore text” (see the attached image below).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Button Shortcode</h4>
<p>You can manually add the button by put this shortcode to your post: <strong>[ecae_button]</strong> Required “strip shortcode options” = No</p>
<h4>Read More Live Preview</h4>
<p>The preview of read more link and the text before link</p>
<h4>Custom CSS</h4>
<p>Allow user to add the custom css for the read more link and the text before link</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<ul>
<li>Registering the license code is useful to get the regular updates of ECAE premium</li>
<li>Registering the license code will also remove the tonjoostudio ads</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translation :</h4>
<ol>
<li>Bahasa Indonesia : Todi ~ @todiadiyatmo</li>
<li>Serbian : Ogi Djuraskovic ~ firstsiteguide.com</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ol>


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