Archive For September, 2009

At last check, there were 6,769 plugins available on the repository. Many of these plugins overlap each other providing similar or the same exact functionality. Over the past few months, I’ve heard developers tell me about particular plugins which were gaining in popularity in the repository were nothing more than ripoffs of their own creation. But, plugins on the repository are filed under the GPL meaning modifying and redistribution of code is completely valid. To make matters worse, many of the plugins that make use of another plugins code do not contain any form of credit acknowledging the plugin author or…

The latest version of BuddyPress is now ready for download.

This release includes a substantial number of core code improvements as well as an array of useful new features.

Some highlights of this version are:

One click internal bbPress forum integration allowing you to set up group forums in less than a minute.
A global forum directory (example) allowing you to easily browse public facing forum posts regardless of the group they are attached to.
Completely re-written theme handling. One theme now controls all of your installation. No hidden HTML, everything is in the template ready for you to skin.
Easily create themes…

Adsense Ready

Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme with Google Custom Search integrated.

Rente

Two column, widget ready, fixed width theme

Gray and Square

A gray, square and smart WordPress theme with eight color schemes

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.

NASA has been using WordPress for a few years now, and recently the NASA Glenn Research Center launched a resource guide for WordPress development:

The site’s goal is to be “the guide to implementing and using the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) with the NASA Web Accessible (CSS) template design on Glenn Research Center websites.”

With a strong emphasis on 508 accessibility compliance, it’s very impressive to see how NASA has built its own custom theme, and is successfully empowering its team to build feature-rich, accessible, and easy-to-maintain sites.

[Visit wordpress.grc.nasa.gov]

Over the years I’ve tried pretty much every contact form plugin available for WordPress. Some were pretty bad, some were almost there, and a select few really shined. Today I’m going to list those few that really do the contact form job right. Lets begin…

Contact Me Widget
I really love the Contact Me Widget. I think this plugin takes the simple contact form to a whole new level. Not only does it have a contact form but also an IM function and a place to put all your other contact info. All in one neat little package. Do note though that…

Video using VideoPress and filmed/edited by Michael Pick.

Going to set up a new form for these.

Someone mentioned to me that they couldn’t use PHP5-style object constructors when using the WP Widget API. I looked into it, and it turns out it does work. Example:

class My_Widget extends WP_Widget {
function __construct() {
$widget_ops = array( ‘classname’ => ‘css-class’, ‘description’ => ‘Description’ );
parent::__construct( ‘css-class’, ‘Title’, $widget_ops );
}
// Rest of your widget subclass goes here
}

The key is using parent::__construct() instead of $this->WP_Widget().

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