Notes, help, and praise for WP plugins. I’m not a programmer and didn’t write any of these, they’re mostly just a place to put my notes.
I often get requests for the ability to add image captions to images. Technically, it's a bit of a pain, so I usually recommend to just put some text under the photo or next to it. Better yet, use a photo gallery (e.g. NextGen). I just ran across the Image Caption Easy plugin and so [...]
A WordPress plugin that automatically creates links for your site based on keywords you define.
I'm getting more and more requests to put video (and audio) up on websites. I usually get a file (or CD or DVD) from my client and convert it to a few friendly formats (video: mov, avi, mp4, mpg, etc.; audio: mp3) and then upload them and make links. However, there are some downsides to [...]
More and more people are viewing websites on their cell phones and PDAs and other tiny screens. Alex King's WordPress Mobile Edition renders your site into a mobile-tiny-screen-friendly website. Do remember to follow Alex King's installation directions so your theme doesn't switch to the default theme. I don't have a fancy-enough cell phone to view [...]
Found this plugin: Custom Query String Let's you put pots in order by date or alpha, all or some (# determined by you), desc or asc. Simple and nice, used for Early Bird Online.
Very professional stats right there in your WordPress dashboard.
Handy plugin from Impressum, VideoPop allows you to easily upload or link to videos and have them pop-up in a new window and play. Don't forget: Needs a file (videopop.php) in the root folder
Do you know about Gallery Remote? It's a handy desktop interface so that you can upload entire folders of images to a site. I use it for my personal (schatzkin.com) photography site (with Xoops, but no difference, really). I could not upkeep my site otherwise; it would take too long to upload images one by [...]
Changed file /languages/EN_en.php, line 210 from: define('TXT_WPSC_PNP', 'PnP'); to: define('TXT_WPSC_PNP', 'S&H'); for that New Zealand term for Shipping and Handling. I also changed line #141 of style.css (in plugin directory) to: width: 200px; from 100% so AJAX cart won't flow over text of product. Hmm. Only a problem in FF, not IE. Finally figured out [...]
This plugin allows you to assign a certain image to a post (much category icons does) and let's you resize it, give it some CSS formatting, etc.
This code seems to do the trick: [code] News & Views
I found this nifty code to create drop-down menus for WordPress. I used it on sfflatheads.
Full-featured photo gallery. Also as plugin for WordPress.
For months, I've been wanting to use the Extended Profile data (from the userextra plugin, comments) to show a list of members on a post/page. I wanted more than just Firstname Lastname, Email, ICQ, etc. I wanted Address, City, Favorite Vegetable, whatever. After finding this code and then this bit of PHP to pull the [...]
Handy plugin (Mass Edit Pages) that lets you sort of the page order of your pages in your header, nav bar, or sidebar. You will need to change the code that displays the pages to this: sort_column=menu_order. So, e.g. [code][/code] Also terribly useful is My Category Order.
