Plugin Review: WordPress Advanced Ticket System
The other day, I had asked plugin developers to dish out their wish list for the plugin repository. Olivier published a comment recommending a plugin called WATS or WordPress Advanced Ticketing System as a way of handling support on your own website. After installation, users need to visit the Wats Options page within the Settings menu to configure the plugin
Making Site Wide Changes on Your WordPress Blog
Last week I wrote up a post to review the Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin and the comments on that story about other methods to make site wide changes permanent sent me in search of another way to search and replace information in my SQL database. Now I consider myself pretty decent at geeky things but directly editing and messing with my site’s SQL database does not top my list of things to do. Neither does manually going through nearly 1,000 postings to make changes. What I found was a terrific plug-in that lets me perform a few different functions to make corrections or change info throughout my site
WordPress trick: Disable plugin stylesheet
The first thing to do is to open the plugin file and find the code which include a plugin-specific stylesheet in the blog header. This function is called wp_enqueue_style() . For example, in case of the useful wp-pagenavi plugin, the code to find is: wp_enqueue_style(‘wp-pagenavi’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri().’/pagenavi-css.css’, false, ‘2.50′, ‘all’); What we need to find is the handle
Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?
Twitter ized answer? Abso-freakin-lutely! Take a look at the following graph
Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation
One thing I’ve loved about WordPress 2.7.x is the ability to install plugins directly from the WordPress Plugin Repository. You don’t need to visit the individual site and instead just search for the plugin you want and then download, install and activate it
Are You Ready To Shopp?
It’s not often that we feature plugins or themes that you have to pay for but when the product is fully compliant with the GPL, things are gravy! In this special episode of WordPress Weekly, we talk e-commerce with Jonathan Davis who is the developer of the Shopp E-Commerce plugin for WordPress. Jonathan gives us the low down on what his plugin has to offer. What is also interesting is his business model
Introducing Tweetbacks Plugin for Wordpress
Just yesterday we introduced Twitter Avatars In Comments plugin for Wordpress that enables bloggers to have both Twitter and Gravatar avatars in blog comments. We are certainly not going to turn Smashing Magazine into a repository of Twitter plugins for Wordpress, but we are confident that it does make sense to introduce another plugin that enables another kind of Twitter integration in blogs. This is why this post releases the Twittbacks WordPress Plugin that was developed and released especially for Smashing Magazine — this plugin imports tweets about your posts as comments
