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I’m happy to announce the release of RSSless, a new WordPress plugin. RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific content in your posts from RSS readers. This is helpful for bloggers who embed videos, images, or other content which doesn’t display or embed correctly in RSS readers. Rather then having RSS readers get blank content, you can simply replace it with customizable message, such as “Please view the original article to watch this video.”

RSSless uses WordPress’ built in short code API. Simply surround the content you want to hide from RSS readers with the [rssless] [/rssless] short code tags.

I created RSSless because of a specific need I had. Since it seemed to…

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Today Jeff Chandler at Weblog Tools Collection published an interesting article discussing the cost of a WordPress installation. The comments that followed were quite interesting to read. A lot of developers agreed that $20-$70 for a raw installation was fine. Of course, there was a strong argument that it should be free.

So how much is a WordPress installation? If you want my services, I charge $35/hour for a basic WordPress installation (minimum one hour). Why would I charge by the hour? Clients want different things in an installation. Some just need WordPress installed straight up. Others need plugins downloaded and installed. And others need a database created, FTP set up, plugins downloaded, and a theme customized…

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I’m happy to announce the release of Email Protect 1.0, a WordPress plugin that automatically obfusctes email addresses in posts, pages, and comments. What is the advantage of this? It allows you to safely display email addresses yet protect them from spam bots that harvest email addresses from the HTML of webpages.

Here is an example of it in action:

Text Obfuscation:
emailme [at] here [dot]com

Image Obfuscation:

Here’s it’s features at a glance:

• Automatically protect email addresses from spam harvesters in posts, pages, and comments
• Obfuscate email addresses using text (myemail [at] example [dot] com) or images
• Control email text replacement for the “@” sign and final period in emails
• Control font, font color, background color, and border color of obfuscated email images
• Convert…