Category Archives: Plugins

WordPress Dashboard Editor

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Of the entire website the Dashboard is seen by administrators the most, but it is the hardest part of WordPress to customize. Well not anymore. This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Dashboard through PHP and HTML and allows you to even add Sidebar Widgets. You may also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news, Planet WordPress and the getting started section.

In WordPress 2.5, the code is cleaner, the plugin is more responsive and you can add both “real” sidebar widgets, or add “fake” ones to match the dashboard.

This plugin is currently intended for 2.5, but it also works in WordPress 2.1 – 2.3 and can work in WordPress 2.0.x if you use the Completely Wipe Dashboard option.

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Organizing WordPress Plugin Bug Reports.

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One of the downsides of having a popular plugin is the amount of support requests, bug reports, and feature suggestions that come in. Well, it’s not that bad, but sometimes it’s difficult to organize what features should be added, what bugs must be tackled first, and what can just be ignored.

If you’re one of the few and the proud over at WP Extend Plugins, you have a nice tool at your disposal to keep track of all your plugin related needs. The tool, you ask? It’s the trac ticketing system over at the WordPress Plugin Repository.

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For most of my wordpress plugins, like AJAXed WordPress I use SVN and the WordPress Plugin Repository to keep track of changes I make to my plugins between versions to make it easier to write the changelog, but I never considered using it for bug reports.

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Tag Management for WordPress 2.3

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Now that you have gotten used to WP 2.3 and had time to fiddle around with all those tags, you are probably finding that you need to edit, rename or delete tags. While I was going to write my own Plugins for this for a while, I found the perfect Plugins to do the work for me — and by perfect I mean really good, so I take no responsibility if they eat your dog.

The Simple Tags has been around for a long time, but now it works perfectly with WordPress tagging. What does it do? Most everything you could want (I could retype the list, but I’m going to borrow it straight from the Simple Tags website):

  • type-ahead input tags
  • auto suggestion of tags
  • tags management (rename, delete, amalgamate, search and add tags, edit tags ID)
  • List of non tagged contents
  • Edit mass tags
  • Possibility to tag pages (not only posts) and include them inside the tags results
  • Related content since common tags
  • Possibility to add related posts inside RSS
  • Dynamic Tag Clouds with colors with Widgets
  • Tags inside your header’s blog
  • Embedded tags ([tags]tag1, tag2[/tags]) for retro compatibility

I use a lot of Plugins and write a lot of Plugins, so the fact that I even use one usually means it is really well made or very useful, but this one is one of the very few that I thought was good enough to promote.

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INAP 3.0 Progress

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Aside from a brief flirtation with a couple payed projects, I’ve been heavily focusing on rewriting the code for INAP 3.0, and it has almost reached the point of a private beta (which means I start running it on this site.) I have selected the new name for INAP 3.0, but I’m not going to reveal it just yet. Here is a small preview of what you can expect from INAP 3.0:

INAP 3.0 is now truly modular with a main Javascript/PHP core that other features hook into to function. This core is easily extensible and the new structure of a main project with many smaller projects will make bugfixes and upgrades less painful, and will allow the user to upgrade the plugin section by section as most changes in the modules won’t effect the core.

For the users:

  1. INAP 3.0 will make upgrades far less painful.

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Multi-plugin Plugin

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Multi-plugin is a very simple script that allows you to add small bits of PHP scripts, such as WordPress filters, without having to make a plugin for them.

Download Multi-plugin

Installation is as simple as renaming the file to .php, uploading it to your server, activating it, and adding some script to the textbox (for example, I use the following code to remove the nofollow attribute from comments.)

< ?php
add_filter('get_comment_author_link', 'aoi_follow');
add_filter('comment_text', 'aoi_follow');
function aoi_follow($link){
   return preg_replace('/(<a.*?rel[^>]*)nofollow(.*?)/','${1}${2}',$link);
}

?>

You can also use the following to add the trailing slash back onto feeds, categories, pages, etc. in WordPress 2.2+. 

< ?php
add_filter('user_trailingslashit', 'aoi_slashit',10,2);
function aoi_slashit($string, $type=''){
  if($type == 'page' || $type == 'category'|| $type == 'month'|| $type == 'day'|| $type == 'paged'|| $type == 'feed'){
    return trailingslashit($string);
  }else{
   return $string;
  }
}
?>

WordPress Code Escape

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Here is another small modified plugin that auto-escapes your code, nicely displays line numbers and uses valid XHTML. This plugin is based off of SemCodeFix, and adds many of the features I wanted in my code plugin.

Download:
WordPress Code Escape

Directions:
Download the file and save it as a .php file.
Upload to your plugins directory.
Activate it.
You may optionally choose to add the following style information to your theme’s style.css.

.code_child {
	font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	white-space:pre;
	width:90%;
	background-color: #F4F4F4 !important;
	overflow:auto;
	border:1px inset;
 	margin:10px;
}
ol.code_child li{
 	margin:0;
 	padding:0 !important;
 	line-height:100% !important;
 	margin-bottom: -8px;
 	margin-bottom: expression(5 +"px");
 	margin-left:  expression(35 + "px");
}