Add JS form validation to your WordPress plugin

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

I was working on a plugin that someone else created and there was a requirement for validating that a specific name field was filled in before submitting the form.  Since WordPress has jquery.form.js included in the source, I figured I could use that. Turns out it is pretty easy! First thing, ...

Widgets: Archives

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives a List of recent months where you posted content to your site.  This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.

Suggest Plugin: File Gallery Plugin

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Plugin Homepage: http://skyphe.org/code/wordpress/file-gallery/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/file-gallery/ What is it? This plugin will completely change how you handle file uploads to your WordPress posts, especially if you prefer to show images individually in your posts.  Before File Gallery, the process for uploading multiple images and showing them in your posts individually was: Click the ...

WordPress upgrade woes?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

It is that time again, when a new version of WordPress comes out.  Since this is a major release (3.0) and not a minor release like 2.9.2, site owners are starting to feel a little bit of pain due to the upgrade.  Some people may not notice anything and happily ...

Suggested Plugin: Ultimate Google Analytics

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/ What is it? This plugin makes adding google analytics at the bottom of every page easy. This way, if you switch themes your analytics code will always be in the code of the theme. Setup Instructions Get an analytics site code from http://analytics.google.com Go to the 'Ultimate GA' ...

Setting up Widgets

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Widgets are small applications you can drop into your website, the images below will help you to know how to use the widget management screen: Once you have your widgets in the sidebar section, you will be able to go to your homepage and see the results of your work.  If ...

Upgrading Plugins

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Upgrading Plugins WordPress makes it extremely easy to upgrade plugins, all you have to do is go to the plugins page and click the "upgrade automatically" link for each plugin that needs to be upgraded. After you click the "upgrade automatically" link, WordPress will take you to the following page and show ...