08 Dec

Disable User Gravatar

Stops wordpress from grabbing a user avatar using their registration email.

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Requires At Least : 2.7
Test Up To : 2.8.6
Current Version : 1.0
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07 Dec

BuddyPress Expand Activity

Adds AJAX capabilities to expand shortened activity stream wire comments without reloading the page.

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Test Up To : 2.8.6
Current Version : 1.0
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19 Nov

Submitting a form on Wordpress leads to a not found page?

I found a little niggle in Wordpress when creating a custom form using shortcodes and plain PHP/HTML for processing. Turns out if your form uses $_POST['name'] in your form, WP does not like that and serves a Not Found (404) page. Changing that input field name to a different one, say surname, fixed the problem immediately. Took me a good 30 minutes to figure that out!

05 Nov

Twitter Goodies Widgets

Uses the twitter goodies widgets API to create offical twitter widgets (profiles, lists, faves and search) straight from your control panel. Same opti

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Test Up To : 2.8.5
Current Version : 1.1
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28 Oct

Syntax Highlighting on your wordpress posts

I’ve had the unpleasant experience of having to play and experiment with syntax highlighting plugins for any code I’d like to post on here and other blogs. Unfortunately, there’s a ton of options to choose from and many just aren’t up to scratch.

What’s worse is that some have funny syntaxes such as using <pre class=”language”> tags which are easily broken by the wordpress WYSIWYG editor and your code gets mangled. Not only that, but changing over to a better plugin becomes a tedious task if you have to change all those pre tags to shorttags.

I’d like to recommend a plugin which works very well, called SyntaxHighliter Plus by Fred Wu and other contributors. In my opinion, it’s one of the easier plugins to use and makes posting code a breeze. Read the rest of this entry »

03 Aug

Localhost Notify

Developer plugin for those working off local server wordpress copies. Adds "local |" to your title if wordpress is running off a local serve

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Test Up To : 2.8.5
Current Version : 1.0
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02 Aug

Login With Ajax

Add smooth ajax during login, avoid screen refreshes and choose where users get redirected to upon login/logout. Supports SSL, MU, and BuddyPress.

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Requires At Least : 2.7
Test Up To : 2.9.2
Current Version : 2.1.4
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29 Jul

Skype misleading their customers…

skype_oopsOK, so this is pretty unrelated to websites, but it must be said. Like many people, I use skype on almost a daily basis. The quality of calls is good and the features it packs are enough to get me by.

However, things change when it comes to the paid service. Who would have thought things stop working once you actually pay?

Last week, I bought an online number and tried to assign it to myself within the business panel. To my surprise, after buying this number I discover that I can’t assign it to my account, as my account details say “You cannot assign online numbers to this member”. Hmm…. thanks for warning me before I bought it! Read the rest of this entry »

28 Jul

Change the core “Name” profile field in BuddyPress

Those that use BuddyPress along with their Wordpress MU installation may have found some limitations with the xprofiles. BuddyPress Devs have improvements listed as an upcoming feature, but in the meantime some things need to be fixed NOW!

One particular feature I needed to get round was the fact that you can’t change the default “Name” field. Whilst very common to have this as a field in most installations, we should at least be able to edit the field names the user sees, but unfortunately this is not so. Read the rest of this entry »

14 Jul

Digg This Button

Adds the smarter digg button. Extended options like topics, prefilled descriptions, shortcodes etc. allow full control of your digg icons.

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Requires At Least : 2.7
Test Up To : 2.8.5
Current Version : 1.1
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