Plugins

Category Order

To change the order of your categories in your navigation (sidebar, top nav, etc.), you can either get into the code, or use this handy plugin (My Category Order). You'll need to edit the code that lists the categories to this: [code]wp_list_cats('sort_column=my_order&hide_empty=0â€²);[/code] While you're at it, you may as well get your pages in order, [...]

PodPress

I'm starting to use PodPress because I like the fancy-but-simple player. However, uploading is not straightforward. Here's a quickie help video on PodPress. Here's a description. Audio files under 8 MB If your audio files are under about 8 MB, you can use the "Upload" feature in the editing page of WordPress. Refresh (or Save [...]

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Bling for Your Blog

In the not-terribly-useful-but-oh-what-fun category comes Bunchball, bling for your blog. I played around and ended up accidentally installing this.

Image Manager

A "must-have" plugin for managing images in WordPress.

Subscribe2

For a site with 50 + users, I'm using the Subscribe2 plugin to send mail out to the group using WP. I've created a category called Mail and updated everyone's Subscribe2 preferences to get updates when the Mail category is updated. Voila, email to the group! Here's a help video that walks through how it [...]

TinyMCE – WYSIWYG Editor

The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) formatting editor in WordPress is TinyMCE. It's a great little editor, but WP didn't add all of its buttons. I just added two more that are extremely useful if you have some messy code to clean up. Here's a help video that explains how to use [...]

Membership

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: -- [...]

Get Recent Post

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 [...]

WP-PagesNav

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 [...]

Form Mailer

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.

Event Calendar

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.

Email This

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

The Excerpt Reloaded

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.

Headline Images

Brian Dupuis created a plugin I just love. It renders regular old text into any font you can upload (.ttf, true type font). So you can grab any font you like and make that your banner, your headline images, etc. I use it on this site and here are a few other examples: Left Coast [...]

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