Category Checklist Tree: Version 1.0

If you’ve ever used categories extensively, you will have noticed that after you save a post, the checked categories appear on top of all the other ones. This can be useful if you have a lot of categories, since you don’t have to scroll.
Unfortunately, this behaviour has a serious side-effect: it breaks the hierarchy. If you have deeply nested categories that don’t make sense out of context, this will completely screw you over.

That’s what this plugin is for: it preserves the category tree at all times. Just activate it and you’re good.

There’s a related plugin that you might also find useful: Category Checklist Expander.

Custom Field Taxonomies: Version 0.5

Custom Field Taxonomies is a plugin that lets you use post metadata as ad-hoc taxonomies.

Register taxonomy

For each taxonomy, you have

  • Tag cloud with all values of that field
  • Show only posts with field = value
  • Any theme can add a meta.php template
  • Several template tags (can be found in meta-template.php)

It also has a nice settings page where you can define which fields to be used as taxonomies.

PHP5 is required.

Full Comments On Dashboard: Version 1.0

The Admin dashboard in WP 2.7 has a neat Recent Comments Box, from which you can manage and reply to comments directly. The only problem is that it shows the comment excerpt instead of the entire comment text. This means that you basically have to load another page to view the entire comment.

This simple plugin fixes this issue.

Custom Field Images: Version 1.8

This version of the Custom Field Images Plugin adds the CFI Loop widget. By default, it displays the 5 most recent custom field images, linked to their respective posts. If you’re familiar with the WordPress Loop, you can customize which images to show by filling the Query String field.

If you don’t like using widgets, you can use the new template tag cfi_loop() directly in your theme files. You can find out more about it in the readme file.

PHP5 is required.

Filter Email Notifications: Version 0.6

Scenario

You’re the only user who can create posts and moderate comments on your WordPress installation.

You have both ‘Email me when anyone posts a comment’ and ‘Email me when a comment is held for moderation’ options checked.

You get an email about a comment awaiting moderation and you approve it.

The problem is that right after that you get a second email letting you know that a new comment has been posted, which of course you already know about.

Solution

Instead of disabling email notifications for new comments alltogether, you can use this plugin and not receive the redundant emails mentioned above.

Smart Archives Reloaded: Version 1.2

I have been using Smart Archives for some time and I really liked it, but version 2.0 wasn’t up to snuff, in my opinion. So I decided to improve it, until I ended up with this plugin:

  • Easy setup – no code editing required
  • Better caching – no need to wait when publishing a new post
  • Settings page – elegantly choose how you want the archives displayed

Version history

  • 1.2: better HTML output; various optimizations and bugfixes
  • 1.1: switched to wp_cron for updating the cache
  • 1.0: initial release

Extra Feed Links: Version 1.1

WordPress has a feed for pretty much anything you can think of. In spite of this, besides the “All articles” and “All comments”, feeds go unnoticed because very few themes have links to them.

This plugin tries to fix that by adding appropriate auto-discovery links to every page type:

  • Comments feed for single articles and pages
  • Category page feed
  • Tag page feed
  • Search page feed
  • Author page feed

The link can also be added anywhere in the page by using a template tag: extra_feed_link().

See the readme for further details.

PHP5 is required since version 1.1.4.

Version history

  • 1.1: more flexible link text format
  • 1.0: added options page
  • 0.6: added extra_feed_link() template tag
  • 0.5: initial release

Improved Gallery: Version 1.0

The new built in gallery shortcode is certainly a handy addition, but it is far from perfect. As such, I have written this plugin to optimise this feature.

What it actually does:

  • Puts all the gallery css in a separte file, for easy customisation and faster page load.
  • Adds an id attribute to the code, so that two or more galleries can have a different number of columns and still display correctly on the same page.

Custom Field Images: Version 1.6

Besides the built-in template tag, custom_field_image(), now we have the [cfi] shortcode, which means that not only can you put the image anywhere in the layout, but anywhere in the post content, too.

Other Features

Easy install: theme code editing required only for advanced use.

Bulk management: import, export and delete images in one click.

Simple management box under the post editing screen:
Custom Field Images management box

Settings page:
Custom Field Images Options Page

Version history

  • 1.6: added shortcode; duplicate alt. text as title
  • 1.5: import / export functionality; option to automatically link to associated post
  • 1.4: extra attributes for image link
  • 1.3: one field per image instead of 4
  • 1.2: general improvements
  • 1.1: added page support
  • 1.0: initial release