Posts Tagged ‘Plugin’

Quick Menu Plugin for WordPress

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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.

Download the plugin for free.

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.

Easy Scheduled Posts for WordPress

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:

  • 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 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:

  • [source lang="php"]&lt;?php scheduledPosts(‘before=&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;after=&lt;/p&gt;’);?&gt;[/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"]&lt;?php scheduledPosts(‘echo=false’);?&gt; [/source]

    Download the plugin

     

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

  • Easy Popular Posts Plugin for WordPress

    While I was working on my new theme for thisismyurl.com I came across the need to publish a series of popular 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:

    • Customizable number of links returned
    • Customizable before and after to ensure you can display the results
    • The ability to echo or return results
    • Let’s you control how popular a post should be

    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"]&amp;lt;?php popularPosts();?&amp;gt;[/source]

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

    [source lang="php"]&amp;lt;?php popularPosts(‘count=10′);?&amp;gt;[/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"]&amp;lt;?php popularPosts(‘before=&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;after=&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;’);?&amp;gt;[/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"]&amp;lt;?php popularPosts(‘echo=false’);?&amp;gt; [/source]

    Minimum Comments
    To ensure you only return truly popular articles, you can limit the returned posts to posts with a minimum number of comments

    [source lang="php"]&amp;lt;?php popularPosts(‘comments=10′);?&amp;gt; [/source]

    Download the plugin

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