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Hotlink Protection Plugin for WordPress

Everyday websites suffer performance loss and higher bills due to bandwidth thieves. This plugin adds the necessary code to your .htaccess file to stop people from loading your graphics from third party websites.

What is a bandwidth thief?

Since many website hosting companies charge per file transferred (or total file transfer size for the month), unscrupulous website owners often load key graphic files from smaller, unsuspecting website owners in hopes of both lowering the costs of running their website and increasing the performance of their site.

This plugin uses Apache’s .htaccess capacity to stop foreign websites from loading images from your web server.

You may download the WordPress plugin for free.

Get Image from Post, a Free WordPress Plugin

As with many of my free WordPress plugins here on the website this one is used extensively throughout my website to help me deliver a great site for my visitors. The plug basically allows users to grab an image from their posts and display it in the Loop.

It’s perfect for home pages, archives etc. where you link to include a visual idea of what the posts about.

This is a simple plugin which allows users to return an image from the related post.

Please feel free to download this plugin.

Installation

To install the plugin, please upload the folder to your plugins folder and active the plugin.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How do I display the results? =

Insert the following code into your WordPress theme files: 

= General results =

ithout passing any parameters, the plugin will return ten results or fewer depending on how many posts you have.

 get_image_from_post();

= Altering the before and after values =

By default the plugin wraps your code in list item (<li>) tags but you can specify how to format the results using the following code:

 get_image_from_post(‘before=<p>&after=</p>’);

= Adding a Link = 

If you’d like to link to the post (remember it’s not live yet) you can do so by calling:

 get_image_from_post(‘link=true’);

= Echo vs. Return =

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

 get_image_from_post(’show=false’);

Get Better Excerpt Plugin for WordPress

The Get Better Excerpt plugin works almost identical to the built in get_the_excerpt() and the_excerpt() functions except it returns whole words instead of cutting off the excerpt as the existing function does.

The plugin allows you to display the excerpt or read it to a variable, select the number of words to return and choose if you want the plugin to skip the built in excerpt and read from the content instead.

As with all my plugins, this is the code I use here on this is my url to return excerpts throughout the website. You’re free to download it.

Frequently Asked Questions

= How do I display the results? =
Insert the following code into your WordPress theme files: 
= General results =
ithout passing any parameters, the plugin will return ten results or fewer depending on how many posts you have.
 get_better_excerpt();
= Altering the before and after values =
By default the plugin wraps your code in list item (<li>) tags but you can specify how to format the results using the following code:
 get_better_excerpt(‘before=<p>&after=</p>’);
= Adding a Link = 
If you’d like to link to the post (remember it’s not live yet) you can do so by calling:
 get_better_excerpt(‘link=true’); 
= How many words? = 
You can specify the number of words returned using the option:
 get_better_excerpt(‘words=20′); 
 
 = Skip the excerpt? = 
If you would like to load the content directly, skipping the entered excerpt:
 get_better_excerpt(’skipexcerpt=true’); 
 = Include a trailing character? = 
By default the plugin includes a … after the excerpt, you can remove it or change it by altering:
 get_better_excerpt(‘trail=’); 
= Echo vs. Return =
Finally, if you’d like to copy the results into a variable you can return the results as follows:
 get_better_excerpt(’show=false’);