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How to use BackPress?

slopjong — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:56:58 +0000

For my recent project I want to use some WordPress core functions but it’s too disproportionate to install the full system. Then I found BackPress which is exactly what I need. It’s a collection of WordPress, bbPress and GlotPress libraries.

The usage of this library collection requires some work. In fact you only need to include functions.core.php and the libraries you need. But to find out what files you exactly need can be hard because some functions have a lot of dependencies so my proposal is to include everything as you needn’t to care about any dependencies later on.

Furthermore some files have to be included exclusive-or what means that either the one has to be included or the other one. Download backpress.php and include the extracted file in your web project.

WordPress 2.8 Baker Final really final?

slopjong — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:01:10 +0000

The new WordPress release is available since two days but it’s still too buggy to call it “final”.

Christa reports

…the dashboard is messed up, image uploader won’t work, the tags menu won’t work…or any of the other menus for that matter…

I checked this and this forums and they’re plenty of bug reports. It’s a good idea to not upgrade as long as most of these bugs aren’t fixed. If you already did here’s a description how to downgrade.

Update:
Code Styling wrote an article about known problems. He published some descriptions how to solve some of them.

Widget Disabler

slopjong — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:27:50 +0000

If you are testing widgets on your WordPress powered blog it sometimes happens that the widget causes errors that make it impossible to remove the widget from the sidebar again. If these errors have bricked your system the only way to get it working again is to deactivate the whole plugin. But if you would like to use some parts of the plugin that are independent of the widget you can’t just reactivate the plugin because the widget will be present in the sidebar again. For this reason I wrote a plugin that removes all widgets of deactivated plugins from the sidebars.

Downlaod

Comments are closed

slopjong — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Sometimes I want to leave a comment after reading an interesting post. In some cases the comments are closed for whatever reason. This can be frustrating if there’s no other way to contact the blog’s owner and you know that it could fix his problem or you just want to let him know that there’s a plugin for what he’s looking for. Thus the communication is broken.

Spam is not really a reason to close comments. There are services like Akismet to seperate spam comments out. Since I use Akismet I had no spam problem anymore. It hasn’t filtered non-spam yet so it works perfectly on my blog.

Does it make sense to close comments? Are there other reasons to close them on live sites?

One Word A Day

slopjong — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:32:02 +0000

This is my new plugin that displays a new English word in the sidebar every day. Furthermore a quiz is included. If you select the correct choice you can play a sound file to listen to that word.

To see One Word A Day in action take a look in my sidebar.

To reduce unneeded traffic I built a cache for it.

Download

My personal twitter account
My developer account

Notes

Only on workdays a new word appears. So don’t be inpatient if the word’s not changing on the weekend and holidays.
The widget is accessing the data from owad.de

Collapsing blogroll

slopjong — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:06:14 +0000

Collroll is my new plugin that lets you insert your blogroll into a static page or into a post. The categories are collapsed by default. Here is how it looks like.

As Collroll uses the built-in blogroll no extra database table is used to store your bookmarks. Once the plugin is activated the background color for the category titles can be set. Have a look at the screenshot.

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Leave me a comment if you wish some features. You can also chat with me if you add me to your friends list on facebook ¹.

Ideas related to this plugin:

Link descriptions (planned for the next version)
A browser plugin for direct bookmarking a web page on your blog. If you’re a desktop application developer contact me please.
Sharing bookmarks with other bloggers. For instance you will be able to show bookmarks of your friends on your site or just set a link to them.
Option to open the link in a new page by default regardless of which setting is set while adding a new link.

I’m the one with the hockey stick in the background ↩

My first wordpress plugin

slopjong — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:44:59 +0000

During watching the football match “Germany – Portugal” I’ve planned how to realize my first plugin that will be published on the wordpress plugin page. I looked for free components and toolboxes to construct my calendar plugin. More details will be available here soon.

By the way Germany won …