First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who put your thinking caps on and came up with some awesome ideas and solutions for this perplexing problem. I think its time to consolidate the ideas that we came up with, and review what the underlying problems are. Nick was first out of the gate For both of my plugins, I provided uninstall capability. Whenever the user deactivates the plugin, it is effectively uninstalled, removing all data related to the plugin. The user could then do whatever they wanted with the file containing the plugin. It was easy to do it this way because WordPress provides a hook for action upon deactivation of a plugin. The problem that I and many others have is that, deactivating a plugin should not have the same affect as uninstalling it. This is wrong. Who wants to reconfigure their plugin after […]

Comment URL Control will allow you to remove unwanted author-URIs entered by a commenter with one single click of your mouse. WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Language Linker allows you to link sister pages that are written in multiple languages. RelatedPosts provides a variety of options for displaying posts that are related through tags.

It seems as though the word Howdy, is not liked by many people in many places. I’ve been monitoring an ongoing discussion taking place in the WordPress hackers mailing-list about the subject of the word Howdy being used in all instances of WordPress, despite the locality of the end user. The discussions have ranged from “Not everyone greets each other by saying Howdy” to “Whats the big deal about the word Howdy anyways, it’s not like it breaks WordPress”. The good news is, because WordPress is open source, there is generally someone out there who has the skill and know how to put together a solution for even the most mundane problems. This brings me to the “No Howdy Plugin” created by Ozh. No Howdy provides you with the opportunity to change the text in that area of the WordPress administration panel, or you can completely remove the text from […]

Automatic Plugin Update Checker simply notifies users when plugin updates are available without the plugin needing to be stored in the WP plugin repository. AZ-One locates the Amazon store (com, ca, co.uk, de, fr, jp) closest to your visitor and changes the associate links on your site to direct the visitor to the right store. Banner Admin allows you to manage various banner ads from different affiliate programs. TextMe sends a carbon-copy of all admin emails sent via SMS to your cell phone. Video Embedder makes it easy to embed videos from various sources, such as YouTube and Google Video.

Benjamin Sterling Galleries uses your current flickr and/or picasa web photo album, the power of WordPress and jQuery, and some jQuery gallery plugins to embed your photos into your site/post. WordPress Admin Reminder Plugin adds a reminder tip (in large red letters) in the top right corner of your WordPress admin pages.