posts on "WordPress Plugins"

List Authors Widget 1.0

mikesmullin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:02:09 -0600

Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.

Demo:

See ConnectBlogs.com.

Features:

Optionally exclude Administrator account from the list.
Use either full names or login names in the list.
Optionally hide Authors without any posts.
Works in current versions of all browsers.

Recommendations:

If you're metablogging or hosting a blog network, this is a must!

Requirements:

WordPress Sidebar Widgets plugin by Automattic

License:

No license; just trying to help out the WordPress community. Feel free to implement whenever you like. All I ask is that you leave a comment/trackback here so others can see your implementation.

Download:

Version 1.0: list-authors-1.0.zip
Tested with WordPress 2.0.2 and 2.0.3

Plugin Installation:

Unzip/upload to /plugins directory.
Activate via WordPress Plugins tab.

Rate-in-Place 1.0

mikesmullin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:58:56 -0600

Now you can not only display a rating for each one of the Links in your Blogroll, but you can update the rating right from the front page (logged-in with editing privledges, of course) with AJAX!

Current Version:

Rate-in-Place, Version 1.0
Designed for WordPress 2.0.3

Demo:

I install most of the plugins I create on my own blog. In this case, you can see the rating below each link in my blogroll, but you'd have to be an admin to see rating it in action!

Features:

rate links without refreshing or leaving the page
works in current versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, and Safari.

Recommendations:

perfectly compliments the feedwordpress feed aggregator plugin.

License:

No license; just trying to help out the WordPress community. Feel free to implement for smooth AJAX link rating functionality via Prototype whenever you like. All I ask is that you leave a comment/trackback here so others can see your implementation.

Download:

.ZIP package: rate-in-place-1.0.zip

Plugin Installation:

Unzip/upload to /plugins directory.
Activate via WordPress Plugins tab.
open /wp-includes/links.php and insert the following code at line 255: if ($show_rating) $output .= rip_link_rating($row->link_ID, $row->link_rating);
in the same file, on line 194, change this code: $sql = "SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel $length $recently_updated_test $get_updated FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_visible = 'Y' " . $category_query; to this: $sql = "SELECT link_ID, link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel $length $recently_updated_test $get_updated FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_visible = 'Y' " . $category_query;
OPTIONAL: Each of your Link Categories have a setting whether to Show Rating or not, which can be modified from inside the WordPress Links > Link Categories tab. This is checked by default so most of the time you won't have to worry about it.

Prototype Installation:

Download/unzip/upload the latest version of Script.aculo.us (currently 1.6.1) to /wp-includes/js/scriptaculous
make sure prototype.js (comes with Script.aculo.us) is in there, as well.
Include prototype.js in your theme's header.php, like so: <script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/prototype.js"></script>

WordPress Sort Category Posts By Title

mikesmullin — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:19:21 -0600

I have written a plugin for those who have been asking for a quick way to sort posts in category view alphabetically by title, rather than the usual chronological order. This is important if your readers don't care when things were posted. This plugin was designed for WordPress 2.0.2.
Download it here: sort_category_posts_by_title.zip To install, simply extract to /wp-content/themes/plugins and Activate from inside the WordPress Plugins panel. Currently this is designed to only alphabetize posts when viewed by category and will not alphabetize posts on the front page, search results, archives, etc. It manipulates the query_vars->order_by and query_vars->order variables from inside classes.php so that sorting is done by title, in ascending order. But the code is simple enough, if you want to make it do that yourself.

AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar

mikesmullin — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:34:58 -0700

This is a Google AdSense widget I designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.

However, as a loyal reader has lovingly pointed out, if you want AdSense or any other kind of JavaScript component added to your sidebar all you need to do is paste it inside the standard Text Widgets that come built-in with Automattic's Sidebar Widgets plugin!

Unbelievably easy! And all this work for nothing. However, for fun I have left the original plugin up here in case you were interested in how I made the plugin.

Thanks to the people at Automattic, it is easy to install and requires no coding or template modification.

The Color, size and h2 title of your AdSense widget are all fully customizable from within the WordPress Presentations tab. No joke!

Requires:

Wordpress Sidebar Widgets Plugin

Download:

wp-widgets-adsense.zip

Here are the installation instructions...

Installation:

Unzip and upload to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin from inside WordPress (Plugins tab)
Drag AdSense widget to your sidebar from inside WordPress (Presentation tab > Sidebar Widgets)
Click the configuration icon and enter your google_ad_client ID
Optional: customize the color, size, and sidebar h2 title

That's it! Enjoy.

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