Archive for 2012: Page 16

By Jeffro on January 2, 2012

Making the rounds on Twitter today is a WordPress plugin called Dashboard Site Preview that allows you to preview your website from the WordPress dashboard. The plugin was created by 10 year old, Jesse Friedman who goes by jesseenterprises on WordPress.org. According to Brad Williams, this guy attended WordCamp Philly in 2011 and used what he learned at that event to create this plugin.

Dashboard Site Preview adds a widget to your dashboard which is a simple iframe that shows you the front-end of the website. For widescreen monitors, you can maximize the use of the preview by setting the dashboard to display widgets in 1 column.

Not quite sure if this will save time when compared to other methods such as displaying the front end within another browser tab or within a browser window on a secondary monitor. However, this plugin excels at being a great learning experience for Jesse. I don’t know about you but I think it’s very encouraging to see younger folks getting involved with coding. After all, Matt Mullenweg believes that scripting is the new literacy.

Lester Chan Interviewed By Singapore Magazine

By Jeffro on January 2, 2012

Lester ‘Gamerz’ Chan was recently interviewed by Singapore magazine, GoDigital. You’ll have to use your mouse to scroll through the first few pages to get to the interview but once there, you’ll read some great insight into who Lester is as a person. Here are a couple of tidbits I took away from the interview.

Lester became involved with WordPress before there was a WordPress. That is to say, he worked with B2 which is the predecessor to WordPress and what WordPress is based on.

His personal site, Lesterchan.net is one of the top three websites in Singapore.

He will continue to maintain his plugins for security purposes.

He has the same shoe size as me. (11)

While the magazine is flash based, I managed to take a screenshot of the first page of the interview to help give you a taste of what’s inside.

How many of his plugins are you using on your site? Here on the Tavern, we’re using WP-Polls, WP-PageNavi, and WP-Stats.

Plugin Created By A 10 Year Old

Lester Chan Interviewed By Singapore Magazine