Custom archives

Posted in Asides, Security | Comments Off We have a customer that wants to display date-based archives in a very particular way. So far it’s been a challenge, and we got the job done by creating some fairly complex code. Even so, it’s easy to use!
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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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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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Content Notification for WordPress

Posted in Custom Plugins, Newsltters and Email, Plugins, Wordpress | Comments Off Subscribing to blogs via email is handy, especially for those of us who prefer to use an email client instead of an RSS reader. It’s also using to help us all become aware that a site has new content. Recently one of our clients told us that they needed a plugin that can send their blog posts out in email. There are a couple of plugins that can provide that functionality, but each one can...
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