Autosave Feature for FCKeditor WordPress Plugin

Posted in Ajax / Javascript, Custom Plugins, Wordpress | Comments Off One of our clients uses Dean’s FCKeditor for WordPress plugin. Unfortunately, unlike the regular WordPress editor FCKeditor doesn’t offer an autosave feature to automatically save your posts every few minutes. So you could wind up spending an hour writing a lengthy post only to lose it all due to any number of reasons! We solved that problem by creating an add-on for FCKeditor that...
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Image Uploads for bbPress

Posted in bbPress, Custom Plugins | Comments Off Recently one of our customers that uses bbPress to drive his forums approached us with a unique request: He wanted to let people upload images with their posts. But, as you might know, there is no such feature in bbPress nor is there any plugin that will allow that to occur. So we created a set of plugins that introduces that functionality. With the plugins our customer can now let people upload...
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Decode URLs – A Plugin For WordPress

Posted in Custom Plugins, Plugins, Security, Wordpress | Comments Off TinyURL.com and its competitors are useful sites. They let people convert long URLs into short encoded URLs, and that makes them easier to read in Web posts and in email. But, as nifty as short encoded URLs might, they are also highly dangerous. For example, a bad guy can easily hide a malicious URL by obscuring it at TinyURL.com. The bad guy might then post it in a comment on your blog. Then...
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File Manager for WordPress

Posted in Collaboration, Plugins, Wordpress | Comments Off As you know, WordPress lets you upload media files, but other than that there’s no built-in way to handle other files that might be part of your site. So nearly everyone has to use FTP at some point. We recently found an old plugin designed for WordPress 1.5 that adds file management capabilities. However, being as old as it was, it needed some considerable work. We modified the plugin to...
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RSS Importer – Extended Version for Pligg

Posted in Custom Code, Custom Plugins, Pligg, Plugins | Comments Off Some time back a customer asked us for a plugin to use in the Pligg system that could import RSS feeds as new posts. We located a plugin but we found that its management interface was poorly organized and that there were also certain features lacking. So we extended the plugin by reworking the administration interface and adding new features. We’ve been repeatedly asked for a copy of this...
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