Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively. Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc. 10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc. Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.

I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated. The compatibility issue arose because of two things; A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code. A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead of using those provided by WordPress core. Here is a code snippet used to check for class existence. if(! function_exists(‘class_name’)) {    require_once(‘myclass.php’); } $object = new class_name(); The above code is wrong, since: Class names cannot be accessed as functions. The internal methods of a class are […]

ScoreRenderer This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations. Submit Your Blog A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog. MarkItUp WP MarkItUp! is the WordPress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor. XHTML, Textile, Wiki, Markdown and BBcode toolbars are already provided out-of-the-box, but even your own markup syntax can be easily implemented with this system. Top Friends Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name […]

WP Plasmashot Two columns, widget ready, left side bar WordPress theme. miniBlog Simple two column white and grey theme OneNews Turn WordPress into your personalized news aggregator. Teal Simple two color theme made up of two colors, teal and white. AcosminTECH Three column, widget, gravatar and ad ready theme mts Journey A classic 3column, widgetready, gettexted and flexible width theme that supports print and PDAs. Ocular Professor Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. Designed to incorporate the new gallery features of WP 2.5+, OP also includes a widget-enabled footer; a “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts; special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions; and author comment highlighting.

Disclaimer: I am not a plugin author. This post is filled with my own opinions and is taken from an end user point of view. If you are a plugin author, be sure to add your point of view in the comments. Traversing through my feed reader after a major version of WordPress is released is always interesting to me because I’ll never know what types of reactions I’ll find. Unfortunately, I’ve been noticing a trend that is unacceptable. The basis of this post will be focused around a line of thought which I find to be anger inducing. The biggest problem lies in the fact that WordPress is continually pushing updates too often without much in the way of testing with the most popular plugins. Podpress is huge! how could they have released 2.6 without seeing if one of the most popular plugins will work? To me the fault […]

Plugin Manager Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from WordPress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin. Yoast Breadcrumbs This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Lijit Search The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network. Movie Quotes Widget WordPress Widget will take the latest, random or top rated quotes from this website, and display them on your blog Share This This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. WP Super Cache WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. FTP […]

Dust A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. Brown Stitch 2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though. Notepad Chaos The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins. WhiteWash A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.

Hot in the heels of our own WordPress Plugin Competition (of which the results should be declared very soon), the folks at WPMU.org are running a WordPress MU plugin competition! The competition is already very much underway, with almost US$1500 worth of prizes already pledged and 8 great plugins submitted, ranging from XML-RPC add ons to simple domain mapping. And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found here. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries. If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love […]