Posts Tagged ‘Displays’

WordPress PHPINFO() Plugin

It’s important for a non technical administrator to be able to diagnose server related problems in WordPress but also rapidly retrieve feedback regarding their web server. This simple plugin adds an option to an adminstrator’s Tools menu which displays standard phpinfo() feedback details to the user. 

This a very simple script, designed to help the non technical user get immediate feedback about their blog.

It’s very easy to run a phpinfo() session without running a plugin and I can already hear a lot of people pointed out that this is a little like swatting a fly with a bulldozer but recently I’ve been working with a lot of charities and not-for-profits who lack in-house technical support and the simple process of running a phpinfo() query was daunting.

For those of you who want to run this as a page rather than a plugin, you can upload a php script to your website with the following code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?> 

Once you upload the code, simply access the page via the URL. On the other hand, if what I just typed made no sense what-so-ever … 

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How You Can Help

I love developing plugins for WordPress and do my best to always keep them free but of course it take a lot of time and effort to build these plugins so if you’d like to say thanks, the best way is to take a few moments and write about the plugin on your own website, include a link to my website from your posts or download and rate the plugin on the official plugin directory.

Support forums are now online! If you have any questions, please visit http://forums.thisismyurl.com.

WordPress Plugin to automatically update the copyright notice.

What is this WordPress plugin?

This plugin automatically generates a copyright notice from the first post in your blog to the current year. The Auto Copyright notice plugin fetches the first and last year of posts from the database and displays the results as a copyright notice on your website.

This process allows blog owners to add content retroactively, knowing that the  website will automatically find the first date a post is published as well as the last published date or the current year (whichever is later).

To use the plugin, simply download it and add the code  <?php echo  autocopyright();?> to your website where you’d like the copyright notice to appear.

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How You Can Help

I love developing plugins for WordPress and do my best to always keep them free but of course it take a lot of time and effort to build these plugins so if you’d like to say thanks, the best way is to take a few moments and write about the plugin on your own website, include a link to my website from your posts or download and rate the plugin on the official plugin directory.

Support forums are now online! If you have any questions, please visit http://forums.thisismyurl.com.

Oops I did it again …

Over the past week I’ve been working on a couple new websites for clients and that has led me to re-examine my own website, frankly I wasn’t happy with what I saw so I took a little bit of time and redesigned the theme for my site to what you see now.

The site has been designed to be less of a blog and more of a feature set of my skills etc. but I also wanted to keep the blog part of the site alive, so I added a custom index page in WordPress and separated the template for pages vs. posts to appear different. The other major addition is some custom coding in the pages file which displays custom links for the Contact page and the new Blog page which features a category breakdown as well as the tag cloud for my site.

The sidebar and the homepage share custom content, called from hidden data stored as pages in WordPress. There is of course still RSS feeds and all the usual goodies that come with WordPress, since the new design is just a skin overtop the engine.