One question I’ve been receiving a lot lately is regarding editing or traversing WordPress plugin code. The question more-or-less is, “Where do I start?” It’s a hard question to answer since every plugin is different, but there are a few ways to get a handle on how a plugin works. I feel a real-world application is needed to show how to edit plugin code, so I am going to periodically dissect a plugin and show you the innards by adding in a few simple features. The first plugin to be dissected is called Better Comments Manager (version 1.2). Ajay did a good job reviewing the Better Comments Manager plugin, so I suggest you check out the review to get a good overview of the plugin. In this dissection, we will be adding/modifying two simple features to the plugin: Disable the scrolling effect when replying to a comment. Add the panel […]
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Archive for 2007
Black on White is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with grey header and whitespace everywhere else. It is a very clean, sharp-looking theme. BlixKrieg 2.2 is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that is a drop-in replacement for Sebastien Schmieg’s famous ‘Blix’ theme. BlixKrieg supports asides and WordPress 2.2. Contrast is a 2-column, widget-ready, white-and-grey theme. It has three built-in styles and you can use pre-determined classes to adjust block alignment on the fly. Zeke is a 3-column, widget-ready, professional-looking theme. Both sidebar columns sit on the right side. Black Magic is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that sits on a black backdrop. (Contains sponsored links.) City Buildings is a 2-column theme with a cityscape header. (Contains sponsored links.) GamePark is a 2-column theme dressed in shades of green and a cartoon-y header. (Contains sponsored links.)
[Continue Reading...]affilisoftware lets you sell software on your WordPress site. FCKEditor has been upgraded to version 2.4.3. New features include the ability to enable/disable the Firefox spellchecker while typing, the ability to set default link target, being able to turn off the FCKEditor button in the Write menu, and a fix for file uploads. Jtags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to call php functions from your posts using ordinary XML-like tags. A jtag is a series of name=value pairs where the first one listed (by convention) is the function name to call and the rest are parameters. OnlyWire Autosubmitter submits your site to your OnlyWire account and to 16 other social bookmarking sites from there. SEO_WordPress reduces duplicate content on your blog. The plugin essentially ‘herds’ googlebot and other spiders to the content you want indexed. The result? A much more search engine friendly blog and better indexing. […]
[Continue Reading...]With the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 in full swing, some plugin authors may want to have their plugin listed at the official WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Within this post I will go over the steps necessary to get your plugin hosted by WordPress. This tutorial is for Windows users, but I will link to other tutorials as they become available based on other operating systems. The WordPress directory uses Subversion, which won’t be covered in detail here (you don’t need to know Subversion to follow this tutorial). The tutorial covers adding a plugin I wrote called Feed Styler into the plugin directory. I apologize in advance for the plug, but I wanted to provide a real-world step-by-step example of adding a real plugin. 1. Get a WordPress.org Account Get over to the WordPress support page and register as a user. You will need to be registered in order to list your […]
[Continue Reading...]If you post code on your WordPress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as syntax highlighter or you could include your code in <pre> tags. They preserve line breaks, multiple blanks, tabs between words and other formatting commonly used in code. However, in some cases, if body of your blog is narrow(er) or your line of code is really long, it will not wrap and will overflow over your sidebar. You can just hide the overflow but that still will look tacky and not very usable. On performing a little search, I discovered that Tyler Longren had already come up with a clever hack to solve the problem. If you add the following code to your stylesheet, it will wrap the long lines of code. pre { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: […]
[Continue Reading...]Bluebird is a cute 3-column theme with light-blue and chocolate-colored accents designed for 1024×768 resolution. Glued is a 3-column theme with Web 2.0-style tabs and a professional look. Lovecraft is a 3-column, fixed-width (1024px), widget-ready theme. Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme displays in yellow, white, and two shade of blue. PGreen is a 2-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme. The sidebar sits on the right side and shares space with the header. Sunshine is a 2-column, fixed-width theme dressed up in bright red and yellow colors. Triplex is a 3-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0 feel. Both sidebar columns sit on the right side. Unthemed Clean Blue is a 2-column, minimalist-style theme. Envision 3C is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a blue header and pastel green and white sidebars. Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme supports Google Adsense. (Contains […]
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 has been getting a lot of good press in the past few weeks and we already have four interesting and useful plugins announced for the competition. If you are planning to participate, why don’t you register on the PluginBlog and post your announcement? The last date to submit your plugin is the 31st of July. Lots of new prizes have been announced for the competition including over $700 in prize money from myself, Ajay, Jonathan and Darren, a Hostgator sponsored dedicated server for a year, an 8GB iPod Nano from Imthiaz, more hosting from PJMommy, a signed copy of Lorelle’s new book and a copy of Angsuman’s latest Translator Pro. Thanks to Matt, Lorelle and others for helping to promote the competition. Oz and Lorelle have also helped me make the PluginBlog more user friendly and clean it up. Ajay is helping me judge the […]
[Continue Reading...]Advanced TinyMCE Editor expands the abilities of WordPress’ native TinyMCE editor and doubles the editor’s available functions to 60, improves existing functionality for handling images, corrects errors in the standard WordPress editor, and makes it easier for maintain and configure the WordPress editor. Feed Count provides an alternative to FeedBurner’s subscribers count chiclet. Users can customize the CSS style, refresh time, and link. Feed Count also uses before and after tags and integrates with the WordPress admin panel. Feed Master is a beta-release plugin that allows blog owners to count the number of subscribers to their blog’s feed. Feed Master offers greater personalization of your feed, improved plugin interface, more specific statistics, ability to create feed networks, information about subscribers, and automatically creates a robot.txt file.
[Continue Reading...]I’m pleased to be joining the contributing staff here. My name is Jim Stitzel, and I’ve been a blogger for nearly four years. I cut my blogging teeth in the Xanga community before discovering a much larger blogging community when I “accidentally” ran the auto-installation for something called WordPress on my hosted site. It was the best mistake I’ve ever made. Since then, my own website has undergone several iterations and now runs almost entirely on WordPress. I’m a self-taught coding geek who’s proficient in HTML/CSS and is learning more and more about PHP everyday. I’m a writer by passion (who hopes to one day make a living doing so), but I work as a data analyst at Purdue University in order to pay the bills. I’m an avid Halo/Halo 2 fan and a loyal member of the TTL Gunslingers, where I head up the management of the news portal […]
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