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WordPress Plugin Settings Chaos
01 Aug
I wish all WordPress Plugins had their settings in ONE menu, and all entries in this Plugin Settings menu MUST be named identically to the plugin.
Not “broken links” plugin with settings -> permalinks -> “link checker” because I will never find it.
Time for a wordpress plugin settings corrector plugin
WordPress › Mail On Update « WordPress Plugins
21 Jul
Sends an E-Mail to one or multiple E-Mail Addresses if new versions of plugins are available. My patch got accepted which adds an option for a single notification per plugin change instead one per 12 hours.
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[Plugin: WP List Files] Fix: links don’t work when blog not installed in root of site
26 Jun
We’re using a customized version of WordPress as an electronic portfolio for students and we are using WP List Files to make documents available on the eportfolio. Unfortunately the WordPress support forums seem to delete my topic (possibly because it’s an older version) and the author is no longer supporting the plugin.
Due to time constraints, these plugins are no longer supported and will not be updated, ever! Unless you know what you’re doing, I strongly discourage using these on a production blog since they have not been tested since WordPress 2.5.
The plugin didn’t work in version 2.0.3 that we are using because the wp_enqueue_script function does not exist in this version (the codex page does not say when this function was added). Anyway after manually adding the javascript to the theme’s head element the plugin almost worked fine – links didn’t take our folder structure into account.
works:
joeblogs.com</dir specified in post or page>
doesn’t work:
allblogs.com/blogs/joebloggs</dir specified in post of page>
Fix it by replacing line 231 to read:
$files .= ‘<li><a href=”‘.get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’).$item['link'].’”>’.$itemName.’</a>’.
The hyperlink created for the item didn’t have the complete blog url in it it assumed the blog was installed in the root of the domain. After this fix the plugin works fine.
Amasan’s WordPress Tweak Roundup
22 Jun
Made few tweaks to improve the blog in preperation for several drafts I’m currently working on. Here’s a quick rundown for everyone that’s interested in the wordpress blog platform.
- Related Posts should show up to 5 related posts without too many false positives on single article pages. I like how this plugin scores posts on relativity and that I can set it to show nothing when no posts are related, which keeps the interface clutter to a minimum.
- A single easy recognisable block of Google Adsense adverts has been added to single articles. You won’t see it if you have Adblock Plus installed like myself, but it should give helpful suggestions on articles with a single subject and support hosting costs in the process.
- Template tweak: Moved post-meta-information from under the title to the footer (tag/cat info) so that the header is better connected with the body of the post. There’s enough clutter on other sites.
- I’ve visually combined categories and tags underneath articles. Category are used for url purposes and tags to facilitate cross linking of subjects. No need for two lists.
- I added a tagcloud to the site so you can browse the site and discover some other articles. I don’t think browsing by time and month is useful to many people so that’s been removed from the site. The only concern I have at the moment is that the cloud would grow to too big a list, so in the future I might just show the top 7 tags used. For now that’s not a problem.
- PHP Speedy. This is the most important reason why the site is so snippy.
There’s more but I’ll save them for another time.
