Mastering WordPress Shortcodes.: Smashing Magazine had a nice instructional writeup on mastering WordPress shortcodes and creating new ones to make one’s blogging life easier. Shortcodes are small peices of pre-determined code (viewable in the HTML version of a post) that are later expanded by WordPress when a post is published and subsequently displayed. Shortcodes are already used by WordPress for many internal functions such as albums. This tutorial goes into details of the shortcode API in WordPress and into some detail of creating advanced shortcodes to accomplish tasks such as Send to Twitter (or consequently, send to Techmeme via Twitter) Create an RSS feed link Insert Adsense into a post Insert an RSS reader into a post Add shortcodes to sidebars Please let us know if you have used any of these or know of/have created others that might be useful.
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Archive for February, 2009
I posted earlier that 2.7.1 RC1 was released for testing and now the final version of WordPress 2.7.1 is available for download / upgrade. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets and so is a recommended upgrade. If you already have WordPress 2.7 or 2.7.1 RC1 installed, you’ll receive an update notification that will allow you to upgrade WordPress from within WP-Admin itself. Or you can upgrade to the latest version by visiting Tools > Upgrade in WP-Admin. This will upgrade the files and the database as well in one step. If you’re using 2.6.x or below you will need to manually download and upgrade your installation of WordPress. Download WordPress 2.7.1 or check out the full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Tune Library This plugin is used to import an XML iTunes Music Library file into your WordPress database. Once imported, you can display a complete listing of your music collection on a page of your WordPress site. Absolute Privacy Turns your blog into the ultimate private blog: user moderation, blog lock-down, users can chose their own password and must enter their name when registering. Ezy Nav Menu This is a simple plugin that adds a template tag ‘show_nav()’ which generates a website navigation menu. The navigation links are managed using the existing ‘Manage Links’ functionality in WordPress. MyAnimeList MAL for WordPress displays your recently watched anime in your WordPress blog. Advanced Custom Field Widget The Advanced Custom Field Widget is an extension of the Custom Field Widget by Scott Wallick, and displays values of custom field keys. Gwolle-GB Gwolle-GB is the WordPress guestbook you’ve just been looking for. [...]
[Continue Reading...]Blu Mag Blu Mag is a three column, blue theme, with sliding menus, featured posts and sliding tabs. It is a Search Engine friendly theme, with widgetized sidebars and footers. Blu Mag is easily customizable and you get the maximum control over the theme’s layout. The Footers, Featured Posts section and Thumbnails can be easily disabled or enable through the Theme Options Page. Nouice Two column simple theme designed for blogs / sites which do not expect any comments Simpl3 Two column theme ready for social bookmarking and advertisements with a widgetized sidebar and rotating headers Glassy Evolution Glassy Evolution is a glassy looking WordPress theme which has five difference colors black, green, blue, red and gold, that allow user to switch from one to another based on their needs. The theme has two columns, fixed width and right sidebar. Are you a Theme developer? Read how you can [...]
[Continue Reading...]While WordPress comes inbuilt with the power of RSS, which allows users to subscribe to new posts and view them in their feed readers. For those who prefer the traditional method of receiving updates via email, you have Feedburner or Feedblitz that enable you to do this. But, what if you want to send a newsletter out to interested readers. One option is to get hold of a remote newsletter solution. However, this can cost you a good amount of money if you have many subscribers. Another option is to install a mailing list software on your server. Yet another is to rely on good old email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. Then again you can use MailPress. Description With this plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates for any e-mail notification issued for comments subscribers, [...]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Custom Field Taxonomies A WordPress plugin that let’s you use custom fields as ad-hoc taxonomies. WP Invoice WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information. SEO Headers SEO Headers allows you to change the headline without changing the page title. Last Modified Footer This plugin shows ‘site last updated’ and ‘content last updated’ information in the footer of your website Author Slug Change the author slug in the permalink for author pages. addauthor This plugin allow you to show the description of the author of the post. Useful for multi authors blog. Nofollow Archives Adds the “nofollow” rel attribute to archive links. FancyBox for WordPress Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your [...]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.7.1 RC1 has been released officially today as per Ryan Boren’s mail in the WP-Testers list. The following have been fixed since WP 2.7.1 Beta 1, which was released earlier this week. URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area Revisions do not respect time zone offset Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail With this release, we’re much closer to 2.7.1 final being made available for all users. For those interested download WordPress 2.7.1 RC1. Report any bugs in the wp-testers list.
[Continue Reading...]Gandhi Gandhi is a blue, three-column wordpress theme with a left and right sidebar. It is a Search Engine friendly theme, with widgetized sidebars and footers and a smart Featured Posts Section. Pranav Pranav is a three-column theme with a left and right sidebar. The theme is rich in colours and has a new look. Like my other themes, it is SEO-optimized, with widgetized sidebars and footer. It again has a great looking Featured Posts section with automatic thumbnail displays. The layout is completely configurable through the Theme’s options page. Mimbo MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes Hybrid News Hybrid News is a child theme of the Hybrid theme framework. It was developed to take advantage of WordPress 2.7′s threaded comments and sticky posts. It comes loaded with 10 widget sections and a front page [...]
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- Now WordPress site can store all its content in Amazon S3. (oblaksoft)
- Yepty - SkyRocket Your Income with In-text, In-image and Slider Ads (zettalab)
- Phire – Free WordPress theme (brtak)
- 'Flourish' Theme (cjblythe)
- [New Plugin] Add To Post (HowWhoWhen)
- WordPress can now run on Amazon S3 (oblaksoft)
- New plugin: WordPress to Cloud (WP2Cloud) (oblaksoft)
- New Free Wordpress Theme Incorp4T (4templates)
- WatuPRO: Premium Plugin For Creating Exams and Tests (prasunsen)
- Blossom Theme (cjblythe)
- Independence Day WordPress theme (imjtk)
- Sharexy - powerful social sharing, bookmarking and blog monetization tool (zettalab)
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