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Easy Random Posts Plugin for WordPress

Christopher Ross — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:37:12 +0000

While I was working on my new theme for thisismyurl.com I came across the need to publish a series of random posts in the side bar and so I put together a simple post randomizer for WordPress. The tool works like most WordPress theme calls and features:

Customizable number of links returned
Customizable before and after to ensure you can display the results
The ability to echo or return results

To use the plugin, install it to your WordPress website and edit your theme files by placing the following code:

General results
Without passing any parameters, the plugin will return ten results or fewer depending on how many posts you have.

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts();?>[/source]

Specific number of results
If you would like to return a specific number of results as your maximum:

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts(‘count=10′);?>[/source]

Altering the before and after values

By default the plugin wraps your code in list item (

) tags but you can specify how to format the results using the following code:

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts(‘before=<p>&after=</p>’);?>[/source]

Echo vs. Return
Finally, if you’d like to copy the results into a variable you can return the results as follows:

[source lang="php"]<?php randomPosts(‘echo=false’);?> [/source]

Download

Download the plugin.

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

Easy Technorati Tags for WordPress

Christopher Ross — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:12 +0000

There are a few other Technorati Tags generators for WordPress out there but I found most of them overly complicated and fairly difficult to use, often requiring custom fields or complex processes. What this plugin does is takes the native tags from WordPress and generates a list of Technorati tags for your blog.

Usage

To use the Easy Technorati Tags for WordPress plugin, simply download and install onto your WordPress website. You can then add it to your theme by inserting the code to your blog theme files or to a sidebar widget.

Output

The tag generates a comma separated list of tags complete with Technorati links. I choose to return it as a value rather than write it directly so that if you’d like to make changes or process the results, you can do it easy.

You can download the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Don’t forget to rate the plugin if you’ve enjoyed it.

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.

autorunHTML

Christopher Ross — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:10:24 +0000

autorunHTML was first created in December 2005 to assist website developers distribute their website projects in CD’s and DVD’s on Windows computers by ensuring HTML files could be opened automatically.

What it does

When a CD Rom is inserted into a Windows computer system, autorunHTML initiates and executes as an application but instead loads whichever HTML document is specified in the .ini file. Effectively this script forces the opening of any document type when a CD Rom using this software is inserted.

Please note: autorunHTML is no longer being supported, you may download the software or source code (written in Visual Basic) and use it freely but no support or assistance can be offered for this tool.