The WP Members plugin looks like something that would be a big help to WP sites with memberships, groups, different access levels, etc. I haven't had a chance to work with it, but I'm making this note partly to remind myself to check it out. Looking for the "best" member (membership) plugin. Some links: -- [...]
It's a simple thing (in MovableType anyway), but I finally found the plugin to make it work. I just wanted the Recent Posts for a certain category in the sidebar. For example, on Lea Aschkenas's site, she wanted just the What's New to show up in the sidebar. Thanks to Tony's Cafe for the Get [...]
A zillion-layer Photoshop document brought in all the fruits into the basket for this logo work.
Update: domain wasn’t renewed, so site down. Alan Thicke’s How to Raise Kids Who Won’t Hate You is on the shelves and online (howtoraisekidsbook.com). Let’s face it – kids have hated their parents since the beginning of time. The goal is to minimize the tension and find the happy ending. Is it possible to raise [...]
Great pages plugin from adsworth.info that helps with page navigation in WordPress. Andreas Viklund is using it in WP Andreas 09 but Litquake wanted the top menu to have different hover over qualities. I knew I could get the "current" state to be a certain class and could easily do it by manually putting in [...]
Melodie uses her site to promote her book and connect with book clubs who want to use her book for discussion.
Janna Wissler (beinghuman.us) is a psychotherapist, inspiratrix and chronicler of the human spirit. She needed a site that she could easily update herself as often as she wanted. Now she can.
Now that I'm switched back to WordPress, I'm going to take advantage some new features--and let you in on some, too. If your site isn't in WordPress, we probably haven't talked in a while. There are some great new capabilities and they just keep on coming. Keep an eye on this News section for more.First [...]
Eyevita (eyevita.com) needed a site to promote and sell their vitamins. WordPress allows them to update the information on their site easily and efficiently.
Dagon Design's Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress allows for some fancy form fabrication without getting knee-deep into code--not even ankle deep! Note to self: remember to put the CSS file into the theme directory.
I'm teaching a class on (could ya guess?) websites for writers! Read more about it on The Writing Salon website and below. Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m. -4 p.m. San Francisco $85 members/$95 non-members You wrote your novel, got a six-figure advance, hired a New York publicist and the royalty checks are now pouring through [...]
In her travels, Lea Aschkenas (www.leaaschkenas.com) has interviewed an exiled Black Panther in Cuba, dined at the house of a police chief who had previously arrested her for fraternizing with locals in Morocco, and gotten lost in a maze of water buffalo trails in the jungles of northern Viet Nam.
Alex over at Firetree has a great plugin called Event Calendar. All was just dandy until it stopped showing the (single post) for an event. Yes, it's in the future and it turns out it wouldn't show up if the visitor wasn't logged into the site. Thanks to Norman for the hack.
GaMerZ has written a great plugin called Email This that provides a great way for viral marketing of your site, your products, or your services. Here's a help video that shows how it's used with BNI Embarcadero to refer a fellow member. Email This Video
Kaf has a fantastic plugin called The Excerpt Reloaded. I was having real trouble getting the 'allowtags' to work until I finally replaced: "the_excerpt_reloaded" with "wp_the_excerpt_reloaded" then it all worked like a charm.
