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Hire me!

dave — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:10:46 +0000

Web Developer for Hire

I’m available for all kinds of commissions and freelance work.
As a consultant, programmer, software architect, scrum master, web developer and designer.
Agile project realization of flash gadgets, custom WordPress plugins and much more.

Area of expertise

Content management systems / WordPress
Flash Actionscript 3 / Adobe CS4 / AS2 / AS3
FLEX 2/3
PHP 4/5/6 / Zend Framework / TDD / CI
Iphone Application Development
Flash Gadgets
Scrum / Agile / Scrum Master
Utilizing object oriented practices and principles (fowler booch rumbaugh)
WordPress Theme Development
WordPress Plugin Development

Contact me through dligthart@gmail.com

Emesa.nl

dave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:56:32 +0000

web development for emesa

Today 03/03/2010 we’ve just released Emesa.nl.

Emesa is the online publisher behind some of the most visited websites for searching, comparing and booking a good deal for a holiday.

Emesa has a rich portfolio of websites, including VakantieVeilingen.nl, and LastminuteTop20.be – website of the years 2009 – InpakkenenWegwezen.nl.

Emesa hired me as a Scrum / TDD / Zend Framework and WordPress specialist for the development and implementation of new projects.

WP-Stats-Dashboard

dave — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:11:47 +0000

Display your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard. See how you’re ranking on Alexa, check out your Technorati authority, monitor your ranking across multiple sites and much more. Once you install this plugin you’ll wonder how you ever managed to track your social media worth without it.

Download it here: WP-Stats-Dashboard 2.2.0

WP-Stats-Dashboard on Facebook

Author: Dave Ligthart

Notable features:

Lots of stats dashboard widgets

An overview admin dashboard widget displaying social metrics

Automatic Login

Sidebar widgets: social metrics, social profiles and total views

Tweet views today

Trending social metrics over time.

Profile finder.

iGoogle gadget.

Dashboard Widgets:

Graph
Overview
Clicks
Referrers
Post views
Search terms
Social Metrics Trend graphs

Overview Metrics:

Total Views
Busiest day
Views today
Engagement, pingbacks, trackbacks
Google pagerank
Google social graph
Google backlinks
Alexa rank
Technorati rank
Del.icio.us saves
Compete rank
Mozrank
Postrank
Yahoo rank
Digg listings
Twitter tweets, followers, following and lists
Reddit rating
Backtype comments and tweets
StumbleUpon clicks
BlogCatalog rank
Bing results
LinkedIn connections and recommendations
Bitly clicks
Klout score, type and description
FeedBurner circulation and hits
Lastfm friends
Facebook fan count
Flickr photo count
Diigo bookmarks, friends and followers
Brazen Careerist fans, following and networks
Newsvine articles and links
Youtube subscribers, video views and profile views
Myspace friends
WordPress likes
Posterous subscribers
Plancast subscribers and subscriptions
Lazyfeed followers and following
Sphinn topic, comments, hot and cast
Jaiku contacts
Koornk followers and friends
Plurk friends, fans, responses, plurks and karma
Hyves friends
Xbox live score and reputation
Foursquare total nights out and total checkins.
Disqus comments posted and received points.
Blippr blips, lists, followers and following.
Amplify followers and posts.
Views
Site age
Site value estimation

WordPress MU, PHP4 and safe_mode compatible.

Tags: widget, dashboard, chart, graph, statistics, stats

PHP4, WordPress MU, safe_mode compatible.

Installation

There are two plugins that are required to be installed:

Unzip and copy the wp-stats-dashboard plugin folder to “/wp-content/plugins/” .
Install the WordPress.com stats plugin, you can download it here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ .
Follow the instructions it presents, create wordpress.com account, enter key.
Install the WP-Stats-Dashboard plugin.
Go to the WP-Stats-Dashboard settings page.
Enter your wordpress.com username and password.

You’re all set!

WP-Stats-Dashboard at WordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats-dashboard/

Mentioned:

By klout.com: http://klout.com/blog/2010/06/blot-stats-from-wp-stats-dashboard/

By piotrkrzyzek.com: http://www.piotrkrzyzek.com/best-wordpress-stats-plugin-update-a-social-metrics-plugin/

WP-Choose-Thumb

dave — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:00:17 +0000

Just released WP-Choose-Thumb. A simple way to add a default thumbnail to your post.

This plugin uses the default wordpress image upload.

Download: WP-Choose-Thumb 1.3.5

WP-Hyves 1.4.0

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:11 +0000

WP-Hyves 1.4.0 just released.

This plugins allows you to connect your WordPress blog with Hyves. Features include e.g: posting to hyves, importing users, importing friend data and much more.

This release contains a new feature: import scraps.
And several code fixes.

Download: WP-Hyves 1.4.0.2

Original article: http://www.daveligthart.com/plugins/wp-hyves/

Plugin url: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hyves/

WP-Hyves hyve: http://wp-hyves.hyves.nl/