If you’ve ever wished you could add your own menus to WordPress, then this is the plugin for you!
The WordPress Admin Quick Menu plugin allows you to quickly add new menu items to a special WordPress Quick menu, giving you and your clients fast access to important third party website shortcuts such as Analytics and email as well as adding faster access to internal WordPress pages.
While I was working on my new theme for thisismyurl.com I came across the need to publish a series of scheduled posts in the side bar and so I put together a simple plugin for WordPress. The tool works like most WordPress theme calls and features:
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 scheduledPosts();?>[/source]
Specific number of results
If you would like to return a specific number of results as your maximum:
[source lang="php"]<?php scheduledPosts(‘count=10′);?>[/source]
Altering the before and after values
By default the plugin wraps your code in list item (<li></li>) tags but you can specify how to format the results using the following code:
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 scheduledPosts(‘echo=false’);?> [/source]
Support forums are now online! If you have any questions, please visit http://forums.thisismyurl.com.
There’s a secret that many web designers don’t want you to know, it’s that there’s no cost to building a website. In fact, you don’t even need special software to do it, everything you need is already installed on the most basic computer available today. In order to build a website, here’s all that you need:
Now that you have all the tools that you’ll need to build a web page, you need to understand a few things about building web pages.
Web pages are divided into two specific areas, the <head> and the <body>, each of these two areas does something specific and before you can build a web page, you need to understand the basic purpose of each section.
For a web page to be recognized by a web browser (the software application used to view a web page) we first need to tell the browser that our document is an HTML document. To accomplish this, all we need to do is place the code <html> on the first line of our document followed by </html> on the very last line of our document.
Once those tags are in place, most web browsers will understand that the content being displayed is an HTML document. I say most because technically, there is a bit more that you should put in there if you want to ensure the site is 100% compatible with all modern web browsers, but explaining the fine details of DOCTYPE structure is a little beyond the scope of today’s tutorial. Needless to say, placing the tags <html> and </html> will tell web browsers what your document is but if you’d like to technically perfect, place the following code instead:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
</html>
Once that’s done, remember that all other code must be placed between the two <html> tags to be recognized as valid HTML.
The <head> tag of a web page is the reserved for things which other computers and software applications require to understand your web page properly. For example, when a web browser loads your web page there are specific things that it looks for in order to understand what language your site is in, what your web page is about and the name of your page. Within the head section, we want to include details such as:
Sounds like a lot right? Well it is, and it’s all very important stuff. Essentially, the <head> section of your web page stores all the mechanical and client side information required to properly index, label, categorize and distribute your web page as well as the information needed to successfully display your web page in a users browser. I could write a whole post on each of the items above but for now, it’s simply important for you to know that the <head> is used to store those pieces of information and you can add them at a later date.
Adding data to the <head> of the document is done the same way as all elements of an HTML document, by opening and closing an HTML tag. In this case, the <head> tag must be opened and later closed </head> in order to store the appropriate content. Between those tags, you may store a series of HTML or xHTML (we’ll talk another day about the differences) data devices for use in rendering your pages. For example, here is a basic <head> element for a common web page:
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
Additionally, the <head> contains the <title> tag which closes (</title>) after labeling the document Untitled Document. If you loaded the source code into a web browser, you would now see a blank document with no content displayed to the user but a new title at the top of your browser, labeled Untitled Document. This document title is the label being fed to the web browser from the <title> tag contained within the <head> of this document.<body>
hello
</body>
Presto! You now have a fully functional web page, albeit a little dull. The <body> section works by displaying exactly what you type as content, so anything (and everything) you add between the two <body> tags will appear on your web page but you have to be careful, HTML needs the content marked up (labeled) to be properly viewed in a web browser. Just in case you didn’t know, HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, a Markup Language is simply text that’s been formated to be read by computers. For example I can create my own Markup Language right now called Chris Ross’s Markup Language (CRML) that looks like this:[-open-]Hello World![-close-]
Essentially, the ten tag structures above represent the HTML code found in every single web page on the planet. There are other tags, but have either been replaced or are simply bad tags. For example the <u></u> tag will underline content and the <blink></blink> tag is simply wrong … even the creator of the tag, Lou Montulli (it’s odd to think somebody actually invented a tag eh?) appears to wish it would simply die.
When put together, the <html> document label tells a web browser the information is a web page, the <head> indicates content reserved for other computer systems to read, while the <body> shows content to the end user.
In total, the 26 tags here represent the whole of the content required to build your own web site for free. If you’ve found this post at all useful, please feel free to leave me a comment below, thanks for reading.
A few years ago I found myself selling t-shirts online using a popular shopping cart package but sometimes after people paid on PayPal, the transaction was discontinued before being fully processed on my site. This plugin was a pretty simple fix but I always hoped somebody else out there will improve it.
The fix simply lets the client know what their customer has ordered via PayPal by altering the product description passed to PayPal.
Please note: This software is no longer being supported, you may download the software and use it freely but no support or assistance can be offered for this tool.
It has been tested with 2.2, works well. If you have any questions please ask.
The tool is designed to connect to an osCommerce store and download a small data file on a schedule determined by the storeowner.
The program will automatically create the required PHP script after being configured by the storeowner.
osWatcher is a great, free utility for osCommerce store owners who wish to maximize their site monitoring without effecting their store statistics or taking up valuable screen space.
Please note: This software is no longer being supported, you may download the software and use it freely but no support or assistance can be offered for this tool.
Jan
2009
How can you get a free PR5 link to your website?
After much soul searching and a great internal debate about dofollow vs. nofollow I’ve had to stop offering nofollow free links from my website via the comments field. It was a very difficult decision, you’re welcome to read about it here (Why I’ve Decided to Nofollow and How That Will Help You.)
People are amazing, they talk about wanting to drive more traffic to their website and increase their presence on Goggle but how many are really up for the challenge? How many people out there truly want to drive traffic to their website and build an online presence? Are you serious about increasing your own PageRank? Well now is the time to find out.
I’ll give every one of you a free link back on the footer of my website (that’s over 5,000 pages) to help you promote your own website, for free. There’s no catch, no tricks and no limitations. You want to build your website traffic and increase your exposure on the internet? It’s yours for free. All you need to do is compete with the other people reading this to earn one of ten top poster comment spots in the lower right hand corner of my blog.
Here’s how it works, every time somebody posts a comment on my website they not only get a link from the specific page on my blog that they’re commenting on but the website also begins counting the total number of posts they’ve made (and I’ve accepted). The top ten each day get listed in the footer of my website for the world (and more importantly Google) to see.
That means that ten people get more than 5,500 FREE, high quality PR5 links directly from my website to their website for doing nothing more than commenting on my articles, correcting me when I’m wrong or pointing me to other awesome content on the web. Even if you’re not one of the top 10, you still get at least one or two PR5 links from my website to yours just for leaving the comment.
So how do you know when to comment? Simple, subscribe to my RSS feed, Twitter me or get updates by Email. Every time I post a new article, you’ll be told and if you can add something to the post, correct one of my many mistakes or point me to a great source for more details … you’ll get a free high quality PR5 link right back to your website.
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