• Support for the Get The Image plugin

Description

This plugin simply adds your post thumbnails to your feed as RSS enclosures. Nothing else to it. If you don't use thumbnails or you don't know what enclosures are or why you might want them, then this probably isn't for you.

The plugin supports the Post Thumbnail feature built into Wordpress and the Get The Image plugin by Justin Tadlock.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. View your feed (you might need to do a hard refresh - ctrl+reload) and any posts that have a thumbnail defined will have an enclosure containing a link to the thumbnail.

Download

This plugin requires WordPress version 2.9 or later.

Version 1.1 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

It’s not easy to do. (We’re talking about the web interface here, it’s undoubtedly easy for those who use Twitter clients.) This is why I’ve written the Twitter Conversation Bookmarklet.

Installation

Drag the following link to your browser’s Bookmarks Toolbar:

[twitter conversation]

Usage

Simply press the bookmarklet whenever you’re on a Twitter status page that is part of a conversation, and the entire conversation will be magically loaded onto the page.

Example

The best way to see an example is just to install the bookmarklet and then hit it on a status page. An example status where it works well is this recent tweet by Damien Mulley which is part of a conversation.

Known Issues

• Currently, the bookmarklet won’t return a conversation if you use it on the first tweet that is part of a conversation. It must be used on a tweet that is replying to another. This appears to be a limitation of the Twitter API but I am looking into ways to work around this.

Comments and bug reports appreciated.

All the information for this plugin can be found over at the WordPress Plugin Directory: Disable WordPress Theme Updates.

Don’t forget you can also disable WordPress core updates and disable WordPress plugin updates too.

Description

There is no built-in way for your visitors to "log out" of password protected posts once they've entered the password. Even logged in users cannot log out of password protected posts by logging out of their account. This plugin solves that problem by providing a link for your visitors which will log them out of password protected posts when clicked.

Installation

This plugin has only been tested with WordPress 2.7 and 2.8. It may or may not work with older versions.

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Add <?php do_action('posts_logout_link'); ?> somewhere in your theme.

Those people who are logged in to password protected posts will now see a link to log out.

Todo list

• Several things. Will update this list at a later date.

FAQ

I've added the template tag to my theme but can't see the link. What's up?

Ensure that you have entered a password for a password protected post. The link will not show up if you're not logged into a password protected post.

Can I change the default text in the link?

Sure. Add a second parameter to the template tag with the text you'd like instead. For example: <?php do_action('posts_logout_link','Log out!'); ?>

For those who want even more control, you can also add a third paramter which will be used as the class name on the link element.

Download

This plugin has only been tested with WordPress version 2.7. It may or may not work with earlier versions.

Version 0.1 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

Description

This plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. You'll be instantly logged out and logged in as your desired user. This is handy for test environments where you regularly log out and in between different accounts, or for adminstrators of blogs with multiple accounts who need to switch between them.

Features

• Instant switching and redirection to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Instant switching back to the originating account.
• It's completely secure (see the "Security" section below).
• WordPress and WordPress MU compatible (watch out for a bbPress version soon).

Security

• Only administrators can switch to another user. Lower level users cannot switch between accounts.
• User switching is protected with the WordPress nonce security system, meaning only those who are allowed to switch users can switch.
• Full support for administration over SSL (if applicable).
• Passwords are not (and cannot be) revealed.

Screenshots

The 'Switch To' link

If you’re using WordPress 2.8 you can also switch users right from the ‘Users’ screen:

The 'Switch To' link in WordPress 2.8

Installation

If you're installing this in WordPress MU as a mu-plugin then see the FAQ for slightly different instructions.

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your 'wp-content/plugins' directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu.
3. Visit the 'Users' menu and click 'edit' next to a user. From there you'll see a link to 'Switch To' that user.

For those using WordPress 2.8 or higher, you'll also see a 'Switch To' link right next to each user in the 'Users' menu.

Todo list

• A custom capability (eg. ’switch_users’) which can be granted to lower level users so they can switch accounts.
• Support for WordPress 2.5.x/2.6.x if the demand is there. Decided against this.
• Some way of switching back to the administrator account after switching to a lower level account (will require a cookie-based remembering system which doesn’t compromise security). Work in progress.
• A persistent notification in the admin area reminding you that this is an account you switched to and not your account (also reliant on solution above).

FAQ

Does this plugin work in WordPress MU?

Yes.

Does this plugin work as a mu-plugin in WordPress MU?

Yes, except you'll need to install the 'user-switching.php' file into the root of your mu-plugins directory, not in the 'user-switching' subdirectory. This is a current limitation of WordPress MU, not this plugin.

Download

This plugin requires WordPress version 2.7 or later, or WPMU version 2.7 or later.

Version 0.2.1 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

Description

This plugin allows you to display Instapaper ‘Read later’ links next to each post on your blog just like on Give Me Something To Read. You can either automatically insert the links adjacent to your blog entries, or you can just use the template tag to insert the links wherever you like.

What the hell is Instapaper?

From instapaper.com:

Instapaper is a fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later. When you find something you want to read, but you don’t have time now, you click ‘Read Later’. When you do have time to read, you visit Instapaper on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read.

Check out instapaper.com for all the details and to sign up.

Can I see an example?

The plugin is active on this very blog, so ‘Read Later’ links should show up next to each post title on here.

The plugin in action on the default WordPress theme

The plugin Settings screen

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your ‘wp-content/plugins-’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Check out the front page of your blog. A ‘Read Later’ link will now show adjacent to each post.

Usage

By default, this plugin displays a ‘Read Later’ link adjacent to each blog entry on your blog. If you wish to control where the links are displayed, you can go to the Settings -> Read Later Links menu and choose between a few display options. You can even disable the automatic display of the links entirely.

If you do this, you’ll then need to add the following code to your theme in order insert a ‘Read Later’ link for each post:

<php do_action('read_later'); ?>

The code must be inside the WordPress loop.

Thanks

• Marco Arment for making Instapaper

Download

This plugin requires WordPress version 2.3 or later. Tested up to 2.9.x.

Version 1.0 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

• Addition of a new plugin_info() template tag for displaying plugin info outside of your posts. Based on code by Melvin Ram.
• Various code improvements including caching improvements by Matt Martz.

Description

This plugin provides a simple way of displaying up-to-date information about specific plugins hosted on the WordPress Plugin Directory in your blog posts and pages. It is intended for plugin authors who want to display details of their own plugins from the WP Plugin Directory on their blog and want those details to remain up to date. It’s also useful for bloggers who may blog about plugins and would like the details in their blog posts to remain up to date.

Er, what?

You want to blog about a particular plugin on your blog and include various details of it in your blog post (eg. the number of downloads or the last updated date). You could manually type this information into your post but this means that in a few days/weeks/months’ time the information will be out of date.

This plugin allows you to use shortcodes in your blog posts and pages which fetches this information right from the WordPress Plugin Directory, therefore ensuring the information always remains up to date.

Here’s an example

This plugin uses shortcodes so it’s ridiculously easy to include any information about a particular plugin in your post or page:

This plugin has been downloaded [plugin downloaded] times!

This will produce the following content in your blog post:

This plugin has been downloaded 1,650 times!

The download count will remain current without you having to touch your blog post again.

Is this plugin for me?

This plugin is only going to be of use to you if:

1. You are a plugin author and you want a ridiculously easy way to include up to date information about any of your plugins in your blog posts or pages.
2. You are the author of a blog that highlights plugins of interest and you want to ensure that information in your posts remains up to date.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Now read the usage guidelines below.

Usage

1. Write a new blog post or page, or open an existing post or page for editing.
2. In the ‘Plugin Info’ box on that screen, type the slug of the plugin like this:
   
   (The plugin slug is the last part of the URL of the plugin’s page on wordpress.org.)
3. Add a shortcode to your blog entry like this: [plugin downloaded] and save the post. (That’s the word ‘plugin’ and not the slug of your plugin by the way).
4. Take a look at your post and the number of dowloads of the plugin will be displayed.

Which attributes can I display?

Below is a list of all the available shortcodes.

Plain info:

• [plugin author_name] – The plugin author’s name
• [plugin author_url] – The URL of the plugin author’s homepage
• [plugin compatibility] – The compatibility concensus with the most recent version of WordPress (as a %)
• [plugin compat_with] – The version of WordPress used for the compatibility concensus (ie. the latest WordPress version, eg. “2.8.5″)
• [plugin download_url] – The URL of the plugin’s ZIP file
• [plugin downloaded] – The all time download count with comma-separated thousands (eg. “12,345″)
• [plugin homepage_url] – The URL of the plugin’s homepage
• [plugin link_url] – The URL of the plugin’s page on the WP Plugin Directory
• [plugin name] – The plugin name
• [plugin profile_url] – The URL of the author’s profile on WP.org
• [plugin requires] – The ‘Requires at least’ WP version number
• [plugin rating] – The plugin’s star rating as a whole number out of 5 (given by visitors to wp.org)
• [plugin slug] – The plugin slug
• [plugin tags] – A comma-separated list of the plugin’s tags
• [plugin tested] – The ‘Tested up to’ WP version number
• [plugin updated_ago] – How long ago the plugin was last updated (eg. “20 days ago”)
• [plugin updated] – The date the plugin was last updated, formatted according to your Date Format settings under Settings->General (eg. “20 January 2009″)
• [plugin version] – The plugin version number

Formatted info (eg. links and ordered lists):

Most shortcodes which display a formatted link can have their default link text overridden by adding a ‘text’ parameter. For example: [plugin homepage text=’Homepage’] will display a link to the plugin homepage with the link text ‘Homepage’.

• [plugin author] – A formatted link to the plugin author’s homepage with the author’s name as the link text (if the author doesn’t have a homepage this will just display their name)
• [plugin description] – The full description of the plugin
• [plugin download] – A formatted link to the plugin’s ZIP file with ‘Download’ as the link text
• [plugin homepage] – A formatted link to the plugin’s homepage with ‘Visit plugin homepage’ as the link text
• [plugin link] – A formatted link to the plugin’s page on the WP Plugin Directory with the plugin name as the link text
• [plugin profile] – A formatted link to the author’s WP.org profile page with the author’s name as the link text
• [plugin screenshots] – The list of the screenshots attached to the plugin (an <ol> list of <img> tags with descriptions)
• [plugin changelog] – The list of changelog entries
• [plugin latest_change] – Just the latest changelog entry
• [plugin other_notes] – The ‘Other Notes’ section of the plugin

Some less useful raw data:

• [plugin downloaded_raw] – The all time download count as a raw number (eg. “12345″)
• [plugin num_ratings] – The number of people who’ve rated the plugin on wp.org
• [plugin rating_raw] – The plugin’s actual average rating as a score out of 100 (given by visitors to wp.org)
• [plugin updated_raw] – The date the plugin was last updated, in the format “yyyy-mm-dd”

The geek stuff

The plugin information is collected from wp.org each time you save your post or page. It is updated hourly using WordPress’ cron system and uses the Plugin API available in WordPress 2.7 or later. The plugin data is stored as an associative array in a custom field called ‘plugin-info’, and the plugin slug you enter is saved as a custom field called ‘plugin’. For supergeeks, this means you can also access the plugin data using get_post_meta(), but I’ll let you figure that out for yourself.

Todo list

• A shortcode for a standard information box which contains all the essential plugin info in a nice format.
• Possibly allow shortcodes in the title of posts.
• Clickable shortcoces listed on the post editing screen.
• A shortcode for a link to the author’s wordpress.org profile page (pending support in the Plugin API).
• A shortcode for the ‘Other Notes’ section of the plugin (pending support in the Plugin API).
• A simple UI for adding the plugin slug info to posts so you don’t have to use the Custom Fields directly.
• Periodically update the data for all of your plugins from wordpress.org.

Download

This plugin requires WordPress version 2.7 or later.

Version 0.7.6 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

Description

This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. It also forces MagpieRSS to use UTF-8 character encoding, which fixes some issues with feeds that contain non-ASCII characters.

Is this plugin for me?

This plugin is only going to be of use to you if:

1. You are fetching feeds on your blog with the fetch_rss() function and want to parse enclosures contained in the feed; or
2. You are fetching feeds on your blog either with the RSS Sidebar Widget or with fetch_rss() and question marks are showing up somewhere in the feed where special characters are supposed to be.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. That’s it! You can now parse enclosures contained in feeds fetched by WordPress.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

FAQ

For FAQs, including how to parse enclosures in your feed, please see the plugin’s FAQ page on wordpress.org.

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

Latest version: 1.1 – Released 06 June 2008

Description

Fixes the media uploader HTTP Error that some WordPress configurations suffer from.

If your WordPress 2.5 installation shows an HTTP Error when uploading files using the media uploader, then this plugin should fix that problem. Simply upload and activate the plugin, then you’ll be able to upload files with no problem.

Technical details:

The plugin adds a few lines to WordPress’ .htaccess file which deactivates mod_security on the file which handles file uploads.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. That’s it! Try uploading a file with the media uploader and the HTTP error should be gone.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

Description

This plugin replaces the most common JavaScript libraries in WordPress with the corresponding files on Google AJAX Libraries.

“The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.”

Note that this plugin does not actually replace or remove any files from your WordPress installation. It simply replaces any references to them with references to the corresponding files on Google AJAX Libraries.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. That’s it!

Which Libraries are Supported?

The current version of the plugin supports the following JavaScript libraries:

• jQuery
• Prototype
• Scriptaculous
• MooTools
• Dojo

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org
You should use the ‘Use Google Libraries’ WordPress plugin instead now.

All the information for this plugin can be found over at the WordPress Plugin Directory: Disable WordPress Plugin Updates.

Don’t forget you can also disable WordPress core updates too.

• Full compatibility with Quick Edit.
• New settings that enable using post passwords in permalinks and feed URLs.
• WordPress 2.8 or later is now a requirement.

Description

Enables you to set a global password for all your password-protected posts, and switch password protection on or off from the writing screen with just one click.

If you publish a lot of password-protected posts (or even if you don’t), you may end up using the same password for every post. With this plugin you can define a global post password from your ‘Settings-> Privacy’ menu, and switch password protection on or off from the writing screen. When you change the global password, all password-protected posts are automatically updated with the new password.

1. 

   Switching a post's password protection on or off.

2. 

   The settings screen.

Note that this plugin does not automatically enable password-protection on every post. It allows you to use a global password for every post that you choose to password-protect.

Installation

• Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
• Visit the ‘Settings -> Privacy’ menu in WordPress and set a global post password.

Now whenever you write or edit a post (or page) you’ll be able to switch password-protection on or off with one click, instead of having to manually type in a password for each post. You can change the password whenever you like.

More Information

Please see the plugin’s page on the WordPress Plugin Directory for more information, including FAQs.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment below!

Description

Completely disables the core update checking system in WordPress 2.3 and higher. It prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the admin area. Ideal for administrators of multiple WordPress installations.

Why would I want to disable it?

Most people should not disable this feature. It’s a fantastic feature of WordPress and I’m fully in support of it. However, administrators who maintain multiple installations of WordPress on behalf of other people (eg. clients, friends) may not want update notifications to be shown to the users of these installations. This plugin is for them.

Installation

This plugin is only for WordPress 2.3 and later. Earlier versions of WordPress did not have the core update notification system, therefore do not need this plugin.

Download the plugin using the link at the bottom of this page, unzip it and drop the folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate it from WordPress’ Plugin panel.

Please note!

It’s very important that you keep your WordPress installation(s) up to date. If you don’t, your blog or website could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities. If you use this plugin, you must make sure you keep up to date with new WordPress releases and update your WordPress installation(s) as new versions are released.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

You can also visit the plugin page on wordpress.org.

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment below!

Description

This is a very straight forward plugin. It simply displays to every user who logs in a reminder to log out once they’ve finished using the admin interface. It’s not going to guarantee that anyone logs out, but if the users of your blog are likely to be logging in on public computers then it serves as a handy reminder. See the screen shot below:

Installation

This plugin requires WordPress 2.0.2 or later. Download the plugin using the link at the bottom of this page, unzip it and drop the signoutreminder folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate it from WordPress’ Plugin panel, then log out and log back in to see it in action.

Download

ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment below!

Changelog

0.2: Change terminology to ‘Log Out’ instead of ‘Sign Out’
0.1: Initial release

Description

Ever wanted to add things such as JavaScript or meta data to the <head> of a page when you’re writing a post? It usually means editing the header.php file in your blog’s template, which is time-consuming and especially complex if you only want to add it to certain pages or posts. This is where the Head Meta plugin comes in. It allows you to simply type your meta data or your JavaScript into a custom field and have it show up inside the <head> on your post or your page.

Example

On the page for my Firefox Twitter Updater I needed to insert a <link> into the head, but have it only inserted when viewing that blog entry on its own. I typed the whole <link> element into a custom field named “head-meta” and while the plugin is active the <link> shows up in the document’s <head> without having to alter anything in the template. See the screen shot below:

Installation

This plugin is only recommended for people who are comfortable writing HTML by hand and who know what meta data is. If you don’t know why you’d need this plugin, then you don’t need it. For those who do, download the plugin using the link at the bottom of this page, unzip it and drop the head-meta folder straight into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate the plugin from WordPress’ Plugin panel.

Your WordPress theme must have the wp_head() function inside the head for this plugin to work. The default themes bundled with WordPress have this, and many themes you can download do too, but if this plugin doesn’t work for you please ensure this function is in the head of your theme.

Usage

Using this plugin is easy. Simply type the meta data which is to go into the <head> of your post or page into a new custom field and name the key “head-meta” (without the quotes). Take another look at the screen shot above if you’re not entirely sure.

Download

ZIP file from lud.icro.us

More Details

The meta data will only show up in the <head> of your document when viewing the post or page on its own (ie. at the post’s permalink). It will not show up, for example, on the front page of your blog even when the post concerned is visible on the front page. This is because my particular needs were that I only wanted the meta data to show up when viewing the post on its own.

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment below!

Description

“Post to Twitter” is a search plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to quickly post statuses (or “tweets”) to your Twitter account from the Firefox search bar. It is not an extension — it is a Firefox Search Engine. This means you can activate and install it in about five seconds, and start using it straight away without having to restart Firefox.

Evan Williams, the co-founder of the company behind Twitter, described it as

“wicked cool”

Download

Take a look at the button to the left of your Firefox Search Bar now. You’ll see that the button has a faint glow around it (Mac users, the arrow will be glowing). This indicates that the website you are viewing has a search engine available which you can install with just two clicks — in this case the search engine is not a search engine at all, but a Twitter updater.

Click the drop down menu and click Add “Post to Twitter”. The search engine will be downloaded and installed and you can start using it straight away.

How to use it

To post a status to your Twitter account, simply select “Post to Twitter” from the search engine drop down menu (if it isn’t selected already), type your status, and hit enter. If you are already logged into your account on twitter.com your status will be posted straight away. If you’re not logged in, you’ll be prompted to do so and then your status will be posted right after you’ve logged in.

Very Important

Once you’ve posted your update, don’t forget to switch back to your default search engine straight away so you don’t accidentally post to Twitter the next time you go to search for something. Simply click the drop down box and click on Google (or whatever your favourite search engine is) then carry on about your normal business.

Requirements

The only requirements for this plugin to work are that you have Firefox 2 (or later) and a twitter.com account.

Geek Stuff

The “Post to Twitter” search engine plugin is written in OpenSearch formatted XML. You can find out more about writing your own OpenSearch search engine plugins at the Mozilla Developer Center: Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox. If you’re familiar with the OpenSearch format then you might be thinking to yourself, hang on, this plugin should work in Internet Explorer 7 too, but you’d be wrong. The plugin uses the POST method which is not supported by IE7. The POST method is required to post your status to twitter.com, and using GET will not work. If IE7 one day does support POST then I see no reason for the plugin not to work in IE7 too.f

Description

View-source. You’ve gotta love it. But it’s a bit boring sometimes — line after line of hypertext, with the only highlight being nice indentation if you’re lucky. I thought I’d liven things up a bit by putting some nice messages into the source of my web pages. For example:

 _____   ______   _____   _       _____   ______   _____   _____   _____   _____
|  _  | |  __  | |  ___| | |     |  ___| |  __  | |  _  | |_   _| |  ___| |  _  |
| |_| | | |  | | | |__   | |     | |     | |  | | | |_| |   | |   | |__   | |_| |
|    _| | |  | | |  __|  | |     | |     | |  | | |  ___|   | |   |  __|  |    _|
| |\ \  | |__| | | |     | |___  | |___  | |__| | | |       | |   | |___  | |\ \
|_| \_\ |______| |_|     |_____| |_____| |______| |_|       |_|   |_____| |_| \_\

That would surely cheer up any source code haxor. So I decided to spread the love and create a really big source code text generator. Give it a go below.

Instructions

You can use the generator below to create really big source code text for your own website. Type the text you want to show up really big in your source code into the box below. It will show up in the larger text area underneath. Numbers and several punctuation characters work too, you’ll have to try them.

What Now?

Copy and paste the text out of the big text area and whack it into your source! You can paste it into a JavaScript tag as long as you keep the /* and */ in place, but don’t forget to put it between <!-- and --> if you’re just going to whack it into your source. View-source this page if you want to see a huge source text message out in the wild.