Wordpress is by far and away the most popular tag on Design Reviver Answers , which is not really a huge surprise considering how popular the CMS is. Below we have published some of the recent Wordpress questions that our readers have posted along with the always helpful answers. It has been yet another good week on Answers, thanks for your support! “ Have you asked a question yet?
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Wordpress Solutions on Answers
It is now been just over a week since we launched Design Reviver Answers . And what a week it has been! We have simply been overwhelmed by the response from the design community, it has more than beat our expectations and we very much appreciate the support from everybody
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DR Questions and Answers – What a busy week it has been!
GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites . It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).
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WordPress Plugin For E-Commerce: GetShopped
Color is the integral element with design. It can bring a bland idea to life, it can revitalize a boring and dreary web site and can bring lifeless art to, well, life.
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Color Tools, Resources and Inspiration
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing ‘WordPress’ as an area of expertise. WordPress is incredibly versatile, it can be tweaked to add many non traditional features to run a more effective blog. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on 10 WordPress Theme ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing your WordPress website to enhance your blog and give it the quality it deserves.
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10 WordPress ‘HOW-TO’ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves
As we all know the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4 as I write this post) has been Issued – that every professional WordPress website should consider using. I’ve segmented the plugins into categories in an effort to make the list easier to digest. These plugins are helpful for
Performance
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WP Super Cache
If your WordPress pages are slowly loading, WP Super Cache will probably help. This is an absolutely brilliant and extremely useful plugin for anyone interested in increasing the speed at which posts and pages are loaded on their WordPress website.
This plugin has the ability to create static HTML files so that, instead of performing several database queries each time a page is loaded, a page’s information is queried once and then saved as a static HTML file. Basically, the data is cached on the server.
And don’t worry – there is an option within the plugin which allows you to flush the cache each time a post or comment is published.
This plugin is highly recommended.
Author’s WP Super Cache Plugin Page | WP Super Cache on WordPress.org
Media
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Amazon S3 for WordPress
Does your WordPress website use a lot of images in posts? If so, Amazon S3 for WordPress is something that you should definitely consider using. This plugin sets up a seamless integration between an Amazon S3 account and the file upload component within WordPress. This is a great way to lighten the load on your web server and also cut down on bandwidth usage by allowing Amazon S3 to store your website’s media.
Highly recommended for people who use a lot of images in their posts.
Author’s Amazon S3 for WordPress Plugin Page | Amazon S3 for WordPress on WordPress.org
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All in One Video Pack
This is a highly versatile video plugin which has tons of great features. Here is a brief blurb from the plugin website on WordPress.org:
This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.
In addition, you can upload, record from your webcam, and import all rich-media directly into your blog post.
Bottom line: If you use video for your blog, you should be using this great plugin.
Author’s All in One Video Pack Plugin Page | All in One Video Pack on WordPress.org
SEO
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All in One SEO Pack
There are tons of different SEO plugins available for WordPress. Having tested most of them, All in One SEO Pack gives you the most flexibility and options.
This plugin is highly recommended for anyone concerned about search engine optimization.
Author’s All in One SEO Pack Plugin Page | All in One SEO Pack on WordPress.org
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Robots Meta
Another extremely useful SEO plugin. This plugin gives you advanced control over the robots meta tag. Robots Meta has a long and detailed options page which allows you to take control over everything from the robots meta tag to nofollow tags.
This plugin is a great tool that can be used to help avoid duplicate content issues, sculpt Google PageRank, and much more.
Definitely worth the install if you’re concerned about fine-tuning your WordPress website’s SEO.
Author’s Robots Meta Plugin Page | Robots Meta on WordPress.org
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Google XML Sitemaps
Another extremely handy WordPress SEO plugin. XML sitemaps are very useful for SEO and for search engine page indexing in general as the sitemap(s) acts as a blueprint for your website’s content, making it easy for the search engines to crawl (and potentially index) all of the quality pages on your WordPress website.
Google XML Sitemaps will automatically generate an XML sitemap in a format supported by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. This plugin automatically pings the search engines you specify each time a new post is published.
Another highly recommended SEO plugin. Download it.
Author’s Google XML Sitemaps Plugin Page | Google XML Sitemaps on WordPress.org
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WordPress SEO Pager
This plugin benefits both visitors and search engine spiders.
Visitors don’t need to click through several Previous and Next links to get to the page they are looking for. One or two clicks and the user can easily navigate to the page he/she is looking for.
Search engine spiders can quickly crawl through the pages in your website by using paginated page links. The faster the search engine spiders can crawl through your site, the better.
Author’s WordPress SEO Pager Plugin Page
Communication and Discussion
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Subscribe to Comments
Increase and amplify the discussion on your WordPress website by giving your visitors the ability to subscribe to a post’s comments. An e-mail will be sent to anyone who subscribes to the post, and it’s just as easy to unsubscribe to the comment notification e-mails as it is to subscribe to them.
By far one of the most popular and most useful WordPress plugins created to date. Get it now!
Author’s Subscribe to Comments Plugin Page | Subscribe to Comments on WordPress.org
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Contact Form 7
Taken directly from the plugin’s page on WordPress.org:
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Make it easy for your visitors, readers, and prospects to contact you. Install this plugin!
Author’s Contact Form 7 Plugin Page | Contact Form 7 on WordPress.org
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FD Feedburner Plugin
Another great plugin which allows you to monitor another useful metric on your website – RSS feed subscribers.
Simple and seamless integration between your WordPress website’s RSS feed and your Feedburner account. Simple, effective, and easy to configure.
Author’s FD Feedburner Plugin Plugin Page | FD Feedburner Plugin on WordPress.org
Social Media
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Twitter for WordPress
Twitter continues to grow in popularity, so I think it’s safe to assume that it’s here to stay. Twitter for WordPress gives you the ability to easily output your latest tweets on your WordPress website.
Increase your transparency by broadcasting to your visitors what you’re saying on Twitter!
Author’s Twitter for WordPress Plugin Page | Twitter for WordPress on WordPress.org
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Sociable
This plugin is a great all-in-one solution to social media bookmarking and sharing. This plugin has been around for a while, but continues to get better. It’s a very good alternative for people who don’t want to take the time to design their own custom social bookmarking spot before or after their posts.
Tip: Don’t go overboard with the number of bookmarking options you display under your posts. Also, it’s best to only display the Sociable bookmarks on single post pages. Doing so on a page that lists multiple posts looks pretty tacky and unprofessional. Use this plugin sparingly!
Author’s Sociable Plugin Page | Sociable on WordPress.org
Advertising
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Advertising Manager
A very flexible WordPress advertising plugin. This is an all-in-one solution to advertising within WordPress. No matter what ad network you’re using, chances are this plugin supports it.
Taken directly from this plugin’s page on WordPress.org:
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognizes many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Author’s Advertising Manager Plugin Page | Advertising Manager on WordPress.org
Integral Admin Tools
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Google Analytics for WordPress
Not much needs to be said about Google Analytics for WordPress. It was created by the one-man WordPress plugin machine known as Yoast. It is by far the best Google Analytics WordPress plugin available. The ability to track all outgoing link clicks makes this plugin worth the install for that reason alone.
Author’s Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin Page | Google Analytics for WordPress on WordPress.org
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Exec-PHP
Depending on the nature of your website, this may not be necessary. However, if you plan on executing any PHP code within your WordPress posts or pages, this plugin will make that possible. Highly useful.
Author’s Exec-PHP Plugin Page | Exec-PHP on WordPress.org
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WP-SpamFree
Hands down the most aggressively thorough WordPress spam-fighting plugin I’ve ever used. In my opinion, this plugin is superior to the Akismet plugin which comes bundled with WordPress. Unlike Akismet which requires you to obtain a WordPress.com API key before using the plugin, WP-SpamFree works out of the box.
Everyone should have this plugin installed on their website.
Author’s WP-SpamFree Plugin Page | WP-SpamFree on WordPress.org
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WP Security Scan
Per this plugin’s description, WP Security Scan:
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
And it certainly does as advertised. If the security of your website is important to you, download this plugin (especially if you don’t have a firewall protecting your website).
Author’s WP Security Scan Plugin Page | WP Security Scan on WordPress.org
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Admin Management XTended
For WordPress power users (people who publish a high volume of posts/pages, use scheduled posting, rely heavily on categories and tags). This plugin provides a quick and streamlined solution to editing post and page information by eliminating the need to have to click the Edit link each time the user wants to make a change to a post/page’s information.
This plugin will save you a lot of time.
Author’s Admin Management XTended Plugin Page | Admin Management XTended on WordPress.org
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WP-DB-Backup
If you’re familiar with web development, then you know that your data is stored within a database. In case of a catastrophic failure, corrupted data, or an act of sabotage by a hacker, it’s always a good idea to have a backup of your database information. My company uses a hosting company (Rackspace) which automatically backs up both our files and databases on a daily basis. However, few hosting companies will include this service with their hosting packages unless you pay for it (sometimes they don’t even offer it).
If you can’t get your hosting company to backup your database information, then make sure you have a copy of WP-DB-Backup installed. A database backup should be created every few hours or every few days (depending on how often your WordPress website is updated).
Don’t skip database backups. You will regret it.
Author’s WP-DB-Backup Plugin Page | WP-DB-Backup on WordPress.org
Tags: Web-design, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, wordpress web development
Events Manager
A plugin to manage events such as music gigs, art expositions, or job meetings. Events Manager inserts an Events page in the Manage menu of WordPress Administration, to let you insert, modify and delete events. You can describe events specifying their date and location, and also add a few notes. You can then add events list, calendars and description to your blog using a sidebar widget; if you’re web designer you can simply employ the template tags provided by Events Manager.
General Stats
Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.
TimeZoneCalculator
Calculates different times and dates in timezones with respect to daylight saving on basis of utc.
Inline Google Docs
Many people maintain dynamic content on Google Documents or hold volatile data on Google Spreadsheets. These change when collaborators save an update or users submit a form. Occasionally, one may wish to embed the contents of one’s Google Documents or Spreadsheets in a post/page to reflect the latest updates on one’s blog. This plugin seeks to provide this functionality without using an iframe.
Cross References Plugin
With this plugin you can easily set a reference to another post or page in posts und pages and you get all back references automatically listed for every post and page.
Aleph
Aleph implements profiles, paginated and customizable user lists, and some characteristics of social networks, like friends and sets. It supports localization and pretty permalinks. Suggestions, bug reports and fixes (specially security & bug fixes) are welcomed. PHP 5 is required.
Tags: Wordpress Events Plugin, Wordpress Plugin Inline Google Docs., Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Stats Plugin
Fixing Flickr FAlbum rewrite rules, thumbnails, javascripts and more …
FAlbum is a WordPress Plug-in that adds your Flickr photo albums to your blog without redirecting the viewer to Flickr or leaving your blog. It is very useful and unique, I have always needed that plugin on my blog, however, some features needed a lot of digging into the code to fix or to get it working. So, I am going to describe a step by step installation of this plugin then will show how to fix.
installtion
Download 0.7.1 FAlbum release from SourceForge
Extract the files to the wp-content/plugins/falbum directory. so that falbum.php would be accessible from /wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum.php
Navigate to Options -> FAlbum on your WordPress Control Panel and activate FAlbum Authentication with Flickr. Make sure to clear cache if you have previously installed FAlbum
Enable Friendly URLs on both FAlbum and WordPress but do not add the rewrite rules suggested by FAlbum on the wiki
Fixing rewrite rules
Please do not test before completing all steps, or you will have a lot of trouble with cache.
Go to /wp-content/plugins/falbum directory and edit file wordpress-falbum-plugin.php
Comment lines number 797 to 805
/*
function falbum_action_parse_query($wp_query) {
if (defined(’FALBUM’) && constant(’FALBUM’)) {
$wp_query->is_404 = false;
}
}
add_action(’parse_query’, ‘falbum_action_parse_query’);
*/
Then add these lines under the comments
function falbum_rewrite() {
#These are commented for wordpress 2.5.1
#it used to work with older version but notime to check changes for wp_rewrite class
#global $wp_rewrite;
#$wp_rewrite->add_rule(’(photos)/.+’,'index.php?pagename=$matches[1]‘);
preg_match_all(”#photos/(?:([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?)?(?:([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?)?(?:([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?)?(?:([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?)?#is”,$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$matches);
for($i=1;$i
if(!empty($matches[$i][0])){
$_GET[$matches[$i][0]] = $matches[++$i][0];
#new for 2.5.1 , check the previous comment
#change the number to match your page id
$GLOBALS['page_id'] = 7;
}
}
}
Go to Line number 679 - inside falbum_action_init() function - and add
falbum_rewrite();
Fixing inline FAlbum tags ([ fa:p:id=.... ])
Edit file FAlbum.class.php, go to line 1324 and replace
if ($size == ’sq’) {
$size = ‘_s’;
}
elseif ($size == ‘t’) {
$size = ‘_t’;
}
elseif ($size == ’s’) {
$size = ‘_m’;
}
elseif ($size == ‘m’) {
$size = ”;
}
elseif ($size == ‘l’) {
$size = ‘b’;
}
elseif ($size == ‘o’) {
$size = ‘_o’;
}
with
if ($size == ’sq’) {
$size = ’s’;
}
Fixing Javascripts
Go to line 117 on file /wp-content/plugins/falbum/styles/default/photo.tpl.php and replace
with
Then Go to line 117 and replace
falbum_photo_id = ”;
falbum_title = ”;
falbum_desc = ”;
falbum_nodesc = ”;
falbum_next_page = ”;
falbum_next_id = ”;
falbum_prev_page = ”;
falbum_prev_id = ”;
falbum_album = ”;
falbum_tags = ”;
falbum_post_value = ”;
falbum_makeEditable(’falbum-photo-desc’);
falbum_makeEditable(’falbum-photo-title’);
falbum_enable_post_helper();
//jQuery(’#pageprev-’).click(function(){falbum_show_photo(’prev’);return false;}).set(’href’,'#’);
//jQuery(’#pagenext-’).click(function(){falbum_show_photo(’next’);return false;}).set(’href’,'#’);
//jQuery(’#falbum_photo_link’).click(function(){falbum_show_photo(’next’);return false;}).set(’href’,'#’);
falbum_prefetch(”);
with
falbum.photo_id = ”;
falbum.title = ”;
falbum.desc = ”;
falbum.nodesc = ”;
falbum.next_page = ”;
falbum.next_id = ”;
falbum.prev_page = ”;
falbum.prev_id = ”;
falbum.album = ”;
falbum.tags = ”;
falbum.post_value = ”;
falbum.makeEditable(’falbum-photo-desc’);
falbum.makeEditable(’falbum-photo-title’);
falbum.enable_post_helper();
falbum.prefetch(”);
Edit WordPress Theme to work with FALlbum:
Create file falbum.php within your theme directory and add these lines
/*
Template Name: FAlbum
*/
?>
//Hack to set WP page id
$page_id = 7; //Change this to match your sites WP page id of new Photos page
global $wp_query;
global $post;
if ($page_id != null) {
$post->ID = $page_id;
$wp_query->is_home = false;
$wp_query->is_page = true;
$wp_query->queried_object->ID = $page_id;
$wp_query->queried_object_id = $page_id;
define(’FALBUM’, true);
}
get_header();
?>
can_edit) { ?>
Open your Theme’s header.php and add this lines at the top
require_once(ABSPATH.’/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum.php’);
global $falbum;
?>
This is optional if you like to change Page Tiltle find tag and replace with
is_album_page()) { ?>
<?php echo $falbum->get_page_title(); ?>
<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?>
On your WordPress Control Panel choose Presentation -> Theme Editor
Go to Manage -> Pages then choose ‘Create new Page’
Add Page Title ‘Photos’ then add Page Slug ‘photos’ then add Page Template ‘FAlbum’
That should do it, you can view a demo on my albums page
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Tags: flickr rewrite rule, Javascript, wordpress flickr
FAlbum 0.7.0
This is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.
This plugin uses the Flickr API (http://www.flickr.com/services/api/).
Features:
- Configurable and maintained through standard WordPress administrative page
- View album of most recent photos - Example
- View your photos using tags - Example
- View your tags in a cloud format - Example
- Caching of Flickr API calls and generated html
- Pull EXIF data from Frickr
- Flickr notes are viewable (multi-line and html code) - Example
- Next image pre-caching is performed on the browser
- Supports Flickr’s new Authentication API
- Localization support
- Ability to edit photo title and descriptions - Screenshot
Files:
Install / Setup Instrutions:
FAQ:
Latest source:
- Note: ! Will probably not be in a stable/working state !
- https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/falbum/trunk/src/falbum
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Tags: falbum, falbum wordpress integration, Wordpress
Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your phone - specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud, or by helping you download files from the phone to your local computer.
Contacts: Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail. If you lose, or simply change your phone, all you need to do is to synchronize the contacts using Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta, and all the contacts that you stored in your Windows Live Contacts store will be downloaded to your phone. You can synchronize your contacts as many times as you like so that the changes you make (edits, additions or deletions) on your phone, or on the computer on Windows Live Contacts are always reflected on both your phone and the Windows Live Contacts store.
Music, Pictures and Video: In its current form, Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on
Communication with your phone: Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta can communicate with your phone via a wireless standard known as Bluetooth, or via a USB cable.
In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application.
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Tags: Microsoft Phone Data Manager, programming, Wordpress
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