Wordpress Plugins
Using categories on WordPress pages
One of the differences between WordPress Pages and Posts is that Posts can have a category assigned to them, whereas pages cannot. Frankly, I think that is just dumb… why shouldn’t pages have the ability to have categories assigned. Well, I’m not the only one that think pages should have categories and there are several…
Read MoreLinking WordPress posts and FaceBook Pages
Duplication of effort is, well, duplication. And when it comes to effort, who needs that? Well that’s what many of us who have both a WordPress blog and a FaceBook Page are faced with…. Whenever we make a post on our blog we have to make a similar entry on our FB Page Wall. Makes…
Read MoreCreating a Sign-up Form with MailChimp List Setup
Creating a sign-up form for the MailChimp email service is pretty easy with the MailChimp List plugin, unfortunately there are also several limitations that you either have to live with or find a way to work around (and I haven’t found a workaround yet.) After installing the MailChimp List Subscribe Form you will have…
Read MorePutting WordPress Login at the Top of Your Site with Registration-Login Bar
Sometimes I just want to make the registration and login process a little easier to access. Well, not just easier to access because you can use the Meta widget to put login and registration links on your web site. The thing is, when you use the Meta widget you are directed to a separate login…
Read MoreSimple Local Avatars
Here’s a situation for you… let’s say that a visitor has a Gravatar profile set up to display a picture whenever they author or comment on a WordPress site. That generally works quite well and makes your site more personable. But what if either you, as the site owner, or the visitor, want to have…
Read MoreGravatar Signup Encouragement
Here’s a neat little addition to your WordPress site that should help make your site a little more personable – display someone’s Gravatar (what is a Gravatar?) on your site when they visit and leave a comment. This post isn’t about how to display those nice little pictures as that is covered elsewhere. But what…
Read MoreWordPress Plugins for the TinyMCE Editor
Alternatives and Enhancements to the WordPress TinyMCE Editor Love it, or hate it… The editor in wordpress sure does have it’s frustraiting behaviors. WordPress uses a custom version of the TinyMCE editor, and they seem to have really hacked it up in many ways. It is very frustraiting to have formating stripped away from something you’ve…
Read MoreVisual Form Builder
Visual Form Builder The Visual Form Builder is just like the name implies; it is a form builder that is much more visual than any of the other form builders that I’ve tried. It also has a great set of features and seems to work quite well. It seems to be the visual brother of…
Read MorecForms II
cForms II cForms II is a nice blend of drag and drop design with parametric design. You can assign a very good range of values to various field and form design parameters including the ability to assign variable information such as user name, form name, and email to any field’s default value. There is a…
Read MoreCustom Contact Forms
Custom Contact Forms The Custom Contact Forms plugin has a lot of settings for you to modify. It is a very parametric driven forms generator with no drag and drop that I could find. It does appear to allow you control over just about every aspect of the forms appearance, and for those of you…
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