Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’
I have just uploaded 1.1.7 of MiniCard here and to the WordPress theme directory. This updates includes:
- New networks; xing, gowalla, yelp, foursquare, mobileme, google buzz
- A way to change link text and define multiple links of the same network
- A way to define your own custom links + icons
- Improved admin panel
Hope you like it, and don’t forget you can show your support by purchasing the premium pack from here.

WordPress Download Monitor is my popular plugin for managing files available for download in WordPress – version 3.3 is a major update containing many new features and improvements.
Version 3.3 (beta) is now available for beta testing to ensure this is a hassle free update when released officially. I would appreciate any feedback, praise and bug reports in the comments. Read more about the new features and grab it after the break.


I am releasing my MiniCard theme for wordpress which supports hCard/vCard microformats, tonnes of social networks, showing some portfolio items (optional), and more – all controllable from its own Theme Config page. This theme is free and licensed under GPL – there is also a premium pack available with many theme variations, and the footer feed functionality.
Read more for more information and the download links. I hope you find this theme useful and spread the word

Download Monitor has received some more love and has been updated. Here’s the change log from the new version:
- Small bugfix in uploader.php – cat ID
- Changed stats graph calculation – thanks lggemini
- Changes to headers in download.php to avoid caching
- File Browser fixes – $root was clashing with something….
- exclude_cat works in all sections of download_page now
- Removed hardcoding of /uploads/
- Added action to download.php – should be able to use it to stop a download if you want – maybe limiting downloads per day or something? Whatever you want…
- Made it so if you post new file on ‘edit’ screen, the post date is updated.
- Fixed the ‘blank meta’ section which blanks out custom field values when nothing is set.
- Moved ‘allow_url_fopen’ check.
- Someone said downloads don’t work with spaces in the name. They do! Wasting my time sonny…
- All work and no play make jolley a dull boy
- Had to rename capabilities so they work. Apologies if you have to set this up again! Cheers to Mark Dingemanse.
- {category_ID} custom format tag added. Useful if you want to send someone to its category on the DL page I guess. Also added {category_other} so when no category is set “other” is shown – this is because the download page can show an ‘other’ section if you want it to.
- You can now manually edit the post date on the edit download screen.
If you have edited capabilities for download monitor user permissions, you’ll have to again sorry! This is because I named them too long. Also, you should check your forced downloads still work because there was a logic error meaning they may not have been forced after-all…
Enjoy.

The Wordress Snippets series of posts will give you some useful code snippets for use in your projects – just copy and paste (but try to understand how they work!).
This snippet will add a stylesheet to your login page so that you can style it fully, and also change the default Wordpress logo link (to wordpress.org) and title text to something of your choosing. Add it to functions.php in your template.

Today I completed the update for the Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin – many tweaks, fixes, and features added. There were no changes to the database structure so people upgrading should be fine. Here is the list from the change log:
- {user} tag added for custom formats
- ‘autop’ option fix
- Download page buttons applied with CSS so they are easier to customise/translate.
- Fix for pagination bug after editing a download
- Category output fix on edit downloads screen
- Category urls on download page use ID rather than name to prevent errors when cats have the same names.
- exclude_cat added to download_page shortcode
- Localised ‘hits’ ‘date’ ‘title’ on download page
- Option to disable the download logging
- Read file ‘chunked’ some people found large files were corrupted so this should help (fingers crossed)
- Added show_tags option to download page – displays x amount of tags on the download page.
- File Browser root setting and download.php logic/mime types modified thanks to Jim Isaacs (jidd.jimisaacs.com)
- Interface Improvements
- Bulk edit categories, custom fields, tags, member only downloads
- Added roles for download monitor admin – should be able to use with a role manager plugin if you want anyone other than admin to access the admin section e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/
- Change redirect after add
- Edit Cat names/parents
- Dedicated tags and thumbnails fields (they still use meta table though)
And yes, those category link bugs are fixed at long last, and you can edit category names finally. Phew!

The Wordress Snippets series of posts will give you some useful code snippets for use in your projects – just copy and paste (but try to understand how they work!).
This snippet will add rel="nofollow" to the links in your blogroll, or those outputted by wp_list_bookmarks. Add to functions.php or your links template.

Spam stopper has been updated to v3.1 – and most of it has been recoded. Here’s the full list of changes:
- Added changelog to readme.
- Email validation bug squashed
- Cached comments now work; if user forgets to fill in antispam or makes a mistake (and the JS does not catch it) the users comment will not be lost.
- Redone entire code to make it more efficient
- Admin section added for changing the antispam question
- Form ID and honeypot trap added to form
- Fully localized
You can get the plugin from wordpress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spam-stopper/
For support, please keep my comments clean and post on either the wordpress forums or my forum.
To help support spam-stopper you can make a donation (buy me a coffee, or several) or rate it on wordpress.org. Thanks!
Sidebar Login for wordpress has just been updated and contains many fixes and improvements. The main changes being:
- Added changelog to readme.
- OpenID Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/) Integration.
- %username% can be used in your custom links shown when logged in (gets replaced with username)
- WP-FacebookConnect (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/) integration (untested!)
- Minor fixes (worked through a big list of em!)
You can get the plugin from wordpress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/
For support, please keep my comments clean and post on either the wordpress forums or my forum.
To help support sidebar login you can make a donation (buy me a coffee, or several) or rate it on wordpress.org. Thanks!
With the release of wordpress 2.8 some people are experiencing out of memory php errors along the lines of:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 228968 bytes)
You may also be seeing pages fail to load fully (for example the wordpress admin dashboard) if php error messages are hidden. I’ve already had one case where we thought certain plugins were to blame but in fact it was just out of memory. A possible fix (which worked in the previously mentioned case) is to add:
@ini_set('memory_limit','64M');
to your wp-config file. Has anyone else encoutered this error?