Author Archives: Stephen Coley

About Stephen Coley

Stephen Coley is a web programmer. When he's not busting out WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, or custom web apps for DK New Media clients, he's probably hanging out on Twitter, playing video games, scaring the elderly, or redesigning his personal blog (again).

Introducing the WordPress Image Rotator Widget

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DK New Media has had this WordPress plugin on the back-burner for some time. The demand for a simple, quality image rotator plugin was high not only for our clients, but also the WordPress community. The plugins I had found that promised to do what we needed were either broken or did not work at all. So we made our own. The first version was ugly, and consequently never added to the WordPress Plugin Repository. Aesthetics were not the only issue: you could only run one instant of it per … Continue reading →

YouTube Sidebar Widget WordPress Plugin

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DK New Media recently released the YouTube Sidebar Widget WordPress plugin out into the wild. Doug wanted a way for his most recent marketing YouTube videos to be accessible from the Marketing Technology Blog’s sidebar. So we made just that. As you can probably tell from the name of the plugin, it is wigetized, and ready to drop into any WordPress theme that supports widgets. In the widget settings, you have the option to list a title for the section, you can specify the username of the YouTube user you … Continue reading →

The Awesome Authors Plugin Is Live

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Awesome Authors is a plugin we’ve developed which shows a blogs most active authors. You can hover over each author to reveal more information about them such as a short bio, their most recent posts, and a link to their homepage. We were hoping to give the authors of the Marketing Tech Blog a little bit more incentive for writing articles. Now you can do that for your authors too. The plugin is equip with some pretty awesome configuration settings: Sticky Authors – You can make authors ‘sticky’ which will … Continue reading →

The Benefits of Doing Charity Work

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Some people run the other way when asked to do charity work. Nobody wants to spend an afternoon, day, or weekend away from their everyday routine. They’re either too busy, or just don’t want to dedicate time to something that isn’t going to benefit them in some way. Just because you aren’t being paid for the work you’re doing, does not mean that there aren’t any benefits. A few weekends ago, I spent an entire 48 hours, with a group of others, building a fully-functional website for a non-for-profit organization. … Continue reading →