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I just uploaded the new version 2.2 of my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress. Improvements: German translation (Danke Mattias… or is it “Dank“?) Updated the .po files for people creating or updating translations Improvements to how the system handles changes to the contents of the “styles” folder.

Version 2.1.2 of my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress is up. The biggest change from the user end is that localizations (i.e. translations) now work. (The had worked previously, but broke somewhere along the way.) It includes French and Italian translations.

A new version 2.1.1 is up. Among the changes: Increased efficiency of version checking Fixed a small bug with the admin footer Significant cleanup of Style selection code Moved Default style to resources folder so it can’t be misplaced Significant error checking RE missing or renamed styles If

We’ve seen a bunch of people developing great new Freebase apps over the last month or so, and I thought it was time to highlight a few of them. Powerset You might have seen Freebase mentioned in conjunction with Powerset recently. Powerset is a semantic search engine that searches Wikipedia and Freebase.

We all know those glowy pull-quotes that adorn the ads for the latest entertainment product are judiciously selected to make it seem at casual glance like the reviewer shat himself with glee while evaluating said movie/book/TV show/etc. But sometimes it’s nice to visit the the counterpoint, the anti-pull-quote if you will, just for a bit of perspective.

Pullquotes are used in most magazines, and many websites have adopted the use of them. They are named thus because they are short excerpts pulled from the article, and highlighted to draw your attention. This technique it great for long, wordy articles, since you can break-up the flow of the text a little, and highlight a noteworthy part of the text.

how to create great header graphics for linkbait pieces. Now I would like to go a bit deeper into that and explain how I create graphical text, text that is an image, that stands out and screams to be noticed. Like the last tutorial mentioned, it is important for your article to have an image associated with the content of the article.