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Mark
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Mark
MailChimp Plugin
Thanks to Erik and CloudBurst Consulting for giving me the opportunity to release this.
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Mark
Another New Plugin
I know, I must be bored today.
I remember someone at the meeting last week mentioning to me about wanting a plugin to send email notifications to the admin when plugins needed updating. Well, I’ve written the first version of that plugin and will publish it to the repository shortly. It allows the user to set multiple recipient email addresses and the interval at which to check the plugins and WP core status. I’m working on building an RSS feed for the data too, but I’m not quite there yet. -
Mark
New Plugin
Since I’ve been adding a lot of new features to the site I’ve noticed that my functions.php file is getting a little hairy, so I’m putting all of this code together into a new plugin. I’m sure that there are existing plugins that do some of this stuff already (custom avatars, social network links, listing of site users), and then there’s always BuddyPress, but creating this new stuff as a plugin will help me keep things nice and tidy. I am having a little problem though. I built a shortcode to display the site’s users but when I add it to the end of the page I want it on, the output is showing up before the content. Anyone have the solution?
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xentek
I would recommend that each discrete bit of functionality be put in its own plugin. This will make it much easier to maintain, debug, reuse, and (possibly even) release the code.
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Mark
This one’s pretty small though. I don’t think it can be more than 250 lines. Just adding extra user meta, hooking into the gravatar function, then calling everything into a list with a short code. Trust me, I’m way too lazy to have this become a headache for me in the future. That’s good advice in general though.
btw, we didn’t see you last week. do you not like beer or something?
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xentek
I’m in Chicago now, so its a bit harder to pop down to the meeting. I should be back in April for a little while though.
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BungeeBones
Need Help Testing A New Plugin
I just built my first plugin (yeah!) and was curious if I could find some beta testers?
Plugin name: A BungeeBones “Distributable” Web Directory
Description: The plugin delivers a complete web directory with categories and links to a WordPress site from a repository (i.e database/central website). For the WordPress operator/host it works very much like a RSS or news feed sending a maintained and managed web directory and is maintenance free. Visitors that want to add a link do so into the repository and the one submittal places the link on all present and future plugin installs.
Features: In addition to being distributable and sharing the category and link repository it has pagination for both the categories and the link displays. The top half of the real estate is for the categories and the bottom half for links so both have pagination. And perhaps its a quirk (or worst) but I can’t stand going down empty trails. The category pagination is dynamic and reports in both numeric and alphabetical. There may be only five subcats, for example, in one but maybe 45 in another so the 2nd is paginated. But where are the subcats beginning with the letter “m” hiding? Alphabetical pagination solves that problem by displaying the starting and ending letters of the subcats names. There is also dynamic population reporting telling how many links there are in a category as well as all its subcategories. Also, there is a “speedy” nav using AJAX dropdowns that both filter results to any geo region (continent, country state or city) and also to a cat or subcat. Both results are integrated in a “Go To” link. For database fiends the original script came with a Modified Preorder Tree Traversal which I’ve found pretty cool once I got my head wrapped around it.
Needs: Any way, it is pretty far along and there are just a couple real minor glitches so mostly what I need is a bunch to download and install it and see how it works in the real world. There is a link to download the plugin zip at the bottom of the web page also.
Possible Uses: Web directories are a dime a dozen so why a new one? The ability to pull from a repository and the front end display to be distributed makes this directory very much like an Adsense ad so it really is different. I always say that, while Adsense wants to rent the side bars of your content , I’ll be happy with a whole page. So one possible use is as an Adsense alternative. I see possible use as a potential new web advertising paradigm. If the system scales (which I believe it will) then it is a Web2.0 app that gets better the more that use it. As more directories get installed, those new portals bring even more traffic in which, then, cycles back to get even more installs etc. I see it as a great tool for web designers and hosting companies. Every webiste needs traffic so if this can deliver some at lower cost that’s great. I think content providers such as bloggers may find it to be just what they needed in order to generate a little income from their writing. Eventually I hope to “pool” the traffic enough to where the income gets serious..
So if you would please mosey on to my wordpress install at BungeeBones.com/blog you’ll be at the install. The download link for the plugin is towards the bottom of the page as I said. I hope you all find it of interest and can give it a good test run. The more the merrier.
Thanks,
Robert Lefebure
Mark 9:06 am on January 18, 2010 Permalink
5 hours of sleep gave me the energy I needed to finish the RSS feature of this plugin. This will prove useful if you’d like to subscribe to feeds across multiple sites that you manage and forgo the individual email notification entirely. I will post the link to the plugin once WP sends me the svn info.