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FeedEntryHeader Featured On WordPress Weekly

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:32:38 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to find that my FeedEntryHeader plugin was featured on Episode 28 of the WordPress Weekly podcast. The mention was fairly brief, but it’s nice to be noticed by such an influential podcast.

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FeedEntryHeader In Action (On A Splog)

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:10 +0000

As a followup to my announcement of the new FeedEntryHeader plugin, I thought I’d share a screenshot of it in action. Predictably, the announcement post was scraped within minutes of me publishing it. Here is what the output looks like on the splog. … [visit site to read more]

New WordPress Plugin – FeedEntryHeader

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:21:05 +0000

I recently discovered that my feed was being scraped. It’s very frustrating to find your content appearing in full on another website – so I decided to do something about it.

The result? A new WordPress plugin called FeedEntryHeader that allows you to add a copyright statement and a link to the original article, to the top of your feed entries. … [visit site to read more]