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Share and Follow wordpress plugin released

Friday, April 9th, 2010

After being fed up with most of the other share and follow link systems I decided to build my own. The issues as I saw it was

  1. Links often went via javascript to a 3rd party like AddThis
  2. No control over if things are in a new window or in the same one
  3. pagerank give away
  4. javascript needed to use the systems on screen from AddThis and others
  5. limited display setup
  6. Only share links and no follow links
  7. all or nothing approach from the majors, all pages or posts or nothing
  8. No widget control, no theme tags, no shortcode


So those were the bits that were missing, so I created a system that dealt with all of those issues and more.  We now have widgetized sharing and following, shortcode availabity, multi-size icons (16, 24, 32, 48, 60 px), follow tab in either the top/bottom/left/right side of the screen, funky text replacement option for follow bar.

Basically it’s got most things going….. and is currently being re-developed with more functions and features for version 2.

take a good look at the share and follow plugin for wordpress

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Stage 2 on the cards for Unselfish Designs

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

After getting a simple blog to help show off her products Wendy is now ready to take unlsefish designs to the next level with a bunch of new features.

  • T-shirt builder
  • Share links
  • Social networking
  • Sales order processing
  • A change in direction on design and layout

We’re looking forward to all the challenges she can throw at us.

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Why I use WordPress for nearly every install I make

Friday, November 27th, 2009

I was feed up with re-doing the same things time and time again

By using wordpress external site I am able to remove a bunch of my standard work like adding content , setting up the head section or configuring my layout areas.  They are now all pre-configured inside my own hand made made theme, and from there on in I just change the CSS and made wordpress theme changes as needed by the client.  Most likely it saves me 5 hours on each install.

And to be honest, I hope the ease of wordpress to use will enable a site to grow quickly, even if it is just a 1 page advert. Possibly the most sucessful wordpress install that I have made so far would be The Commonwealth Conversation external site.  This site has had over 30,000 visitors and 1000 comments anf got to page rank 7 in about 4 months, not many sites can say that.

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