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 […]
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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...]Trackbackers is a plugin that allows you to link back to the domains that send the most trackbacks to you, much like top commenters. It might be a good idea to run some kind of trackback validation or Akismet with this plugin. High Keyword density Plugin checks for the user-agent and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it won’t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I am not sure of the viability or the effectiveness of this plugin but it might be on the border of being Google un-friendly. Please use at your own risk [EDIT] We choose not to promote this plugin. Please see comments below. AJAX Edit Comments 1.1 allows admin and users to edit comments from a post. Users see a countdown timer when editing a comment. Admin can now also […]
[Continue Reading...]WP CSS-Streamliner: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s performance. Blogroll Page Plugin: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin. Do Follow Trackback: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the trackback validator. Excerpt Editor Update: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts’ content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier …? never mind! WP-Simpleviewer: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into WordPress. For those that are not aware of SimpleViewer, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build beautiful and smooth galleries. This plugin is also an entrant into the WordPress Theme Competition 2.0. WP-Filemanager: Highly versatile file management plugin for WordPress that will allow […]
[Continue Reading...]GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with WordPress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features. WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in “WP-Admin -> Options -> PageNaviâ€. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file […]
[Continue Reading...]If you have been paying attention to Amazon’s single product pages and if Amazon’s engineers have been doing their job well, you have most likely clicked on one of the links in the group of deep links called “Customers who bought this item also bought”. This plugin tries to create a similar group of links for your blog. If you have enough links in your theme (Contextual Related Posts plugin comes in handy) for readers to explore, then as and when readers click on links, this plugin checks to see if it was referred from your blog, checks to see if it can identify a post or a page from the information it has and then adds a link to the referring page. I have been testing it on this blog for a few days while I iron out the bugs. Check out the pages and what grabs readers’ attention […]
[Continue Reading...]As announced, today is the first day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin authors should register at the Plugin Competition Blog and start posting their ideas, future plugins and everything else about the competition. I have already received a bunch of requests for sponsorships and prizes. So here is a list of resources for the competition: Plugin Competition Prizes: If you have promised a prize or have paid already, it should show up on this page, more details to follow Plugin Competition Blog: This is where all the announcements and code should be posted. Contact Form: Use this form for sponsorship questions and submissions. Preliminary Rules: Most of the rules are listed here. More to follow on a separate page. All competition entries must be submitted with the final version of code to mark at wltc dot net. This can and should be done towards the end of the competition […]
[Continue Reading...]FeatureMe is an easy way to manage and show a featured entries list. DJ-Email-Publish will send the post to your other blogs (such as msn spaces) via email. babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. MBLA is an acronym for ÂgMyBlogLog AvatarsÂh and is a plugin for WordPress. It can add avatars from MyBlogLog to posts and comments. The Copyright Plugin automatically keeps your WordPress page copyright notices up to date. 1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your blog. Add Script Hook finds all hooks in your themes and allows to add some javascript IMM Meta Tags allows you to edit and manage your meta tags. Comment […]
[Continue Reading...]Writing Secure WordPress Plugins: This is an important topic and with the upcoming plugin competition, I would really like to highlight the importance of securing your WordPress plugins. This article explains the security features built into WordPress and its plugin framework and discusses the most commonly used items including attribute_escape and wp_nonce and how to use them in your plugins. This is an essential read for plugin developers if you are not building security into your plugins.
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