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Have you ever needed to see what a theme looks like with your content but you did not want to have to recreate your whole site on a testing server and import all your data?  Well, Theme Test Drive to the rescue. You simply download the plugin, unzip it, upload it to your WordPress install, [...]

Sometimes you want to show your user the strength of their password and although there a quite a few jQuery “plugins” that do this there are none – that I’ve found – that let you set the class of an element so that you can do a graphical representation of the strength. What I have [...]

WordPress 2.7 will be release sometime soon and with it comes a new feature call “favorite actions,” it’s a drop down menu that is sort of a quick launch to your most used actions. Right now it only contains “Add New Post”, “Add New Page” and “Manage Comments”. Like with most features in WordPress, you [...]

I am pleased to another WordPress plugin geared toward improving the functionality and usability of WordPress’ admin area. This plugin will extend the functionality of the richtext editor to include the ability to browse thru all your images that have been uploaded to your WordPress install. Feel free to check it out at Image Browser [...]

Future home of the WordPress Happenings plugin, an events plugin. The WordPress Happenings Plugin is an plugin that will add events capabilities to a WordPress install. You will be able to create event with Presentations, Agenda, Hotel information, etc.

Temporary code home: http://pastebin.com/f38d8be51 Will move to WordPress Extend once I get it approved.

Today I present to you my newest release, a WordPress plugin that adds/extends the functionality of the richtext editor for editing post and pages call Editor Extender.  Fancy name huh?  I am not very creative with my names but I am however creative with my code.  I’ve been using this plugin in probably about half [...]

Tweet You is a WordPress plugin that will bring Twitter to your site via a widget. Based off code written by Sea of Clouds, Tweet You allows you to easily post your Twitter messages your sidebar. Insall Instructions Unzip into your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. If you’re uploading it make sure to upload the top-level folder. Don’t [...]

Lately I have been do a ton of development with WordPress for use in a few websites as CMS – which I will be doing a few post on at some point – and I found using the Media Library to be a bit lacking. Not to bash anyone but there just seemed to be [...]

As you very well know by now, I have created quite a few image / photo galleries and the ultimate goal was to allow them to be as unobtrusive as possible. Well, the other day I got into a discussion with a co-worker and the questions he asked were, “How is that unobtrusive?”, referring to my gallery plugins, “The images are in list elements?” My answer to that was, “They can be styled to have each list element float and punched up a bit.” His rebuttal, “But what if styles were off also?” I hesitated for a second and he know he had won this conversation and silently walked away.