I have always thought it was a little odd that the Comments menu in the WordPress dashboard did not have any sub menu items. For example, I think it makes sense to include sub menu items for each of the comment status: Approved, Pending, Spam, and Trash. But since WordPress doesn’t include these, it is [...]
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A collection of 6 powerful WordPress Widgets that will help to super charge your blog. Each of the widgets in this bundle has been built in an effort to provide functionality that is greatly lacking with the default WordPress widgets.
View Post authors, comments, recent posts, Related posts, widgetbbPress a truly awesome WordPress plugin for providing a complete forum system inside of your WordPress. I’ve used it on quite a few sites now, and recently, while working on a client project, I needed short codes to work inside of forum posts, but they don’t by default. This is an extremely simple plugin that [...]
View Post bbpress, do_shortcodeI run several support forums on the bbPress plugin and one of the issues I have constantly run into is how to provide a good way for users to post private information in their support threads, without having to email it or open a private ticket in a separate system. In order to solve this, [...]
View Post bbpress, Rémi CorsonbbPress includes a feature that allows users to subscribe to forum topics, meaning that anytime a new reply is posted to that topic, all subscribed users will receive an email alerting them of the reply. bbPress does not, however, provide an option to customize the contents of this email, so that’s what this extension for [...]
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This add-on plugin for bbPress will add new links to the top of bbPress topics that let the current user mark topics as either read or unread. Mark as Read / Unread links will be added to the top of each topic, right next to the Favorite and Subscribe links provided by bbPress core.
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WordPress comes with a Recent Posts widget that you can use to display a list of your latest posts in your widgetized sidebar, but it’s really not very good in the fact that it does give you any control over your posts at all. So I’ve written a new one.
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Better Recent Posts Widget Pro provides a greatly enhanced recent posts widget. The default recent posts widget that comes with WordPress offers almost zero control over which posts are displayed, or how they are displayed. This widget fixes that.
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This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display similar, or related, posts in any widgetized sidebar. Related posts are selected using tags, categories, or any custom taxonomy. When searching for related posts, the widget will choose posts that share between 1-3 like terms with the currently viewed post.
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Ninja Forms is a super awesome, powerful, and free forms plugin for WordPress. If you need to build contact forms, surveys, proposal forms, even post submission, Ninja Forms will work wonders for you. This is a small extension I built that adds Campaign Monitor integration into Ninja Forms so that your users can easily subscribe [...]
View Post campaign monitor, Ninja FormsThis is a simple, very easy to use Maintenance Mode plugin that allows you to put your site into “maintenance mode” in order to perform updates or other changes. The plugin allows you to specify a set of authorized IP addresses for people that will be allowed to see the site normally, and also to [...]
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CGC Maintenance Mode Pro is a plugin for WordPress that is designed to make it extremely easy to safely perform upgrades and maintenance on your site. While in maintenance mode, unauthorized users are sent to either a WordPress page, external URL, or custom template. Authorized users, specified by IP, are permitted to see the site [...]
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A few months ago, Andrew Norcross, Tom McFarlin and I decided to collaborate on a new plugin that makes it easy to see which comments have not yet been replied to by the post author, and this is the result.
View Post Andrew Norcross, comments, Tom McFarlinThe other day a user posted a question on the WordPress Stack Exchange about how to display a calendar of your site’s custom post types, much like the default WP Calendar widget. After a quick google search, I found a function written by Jennifer Dodd that did exactly this. The user who asked the question [...]
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Easy custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes
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Easy Content Types add-on to enable taxonomy filters for custom post types in the WordPress admin
View Post custom taxonomy, easy content types, taxonomiesFeatured Comments is a great little plugin that lets you easily feature and / or bury comments. The idea is to emphasize comments that you want to stand out and to hide (bury) comments that have little or no value. When featured, comments will get a new “featured” class added to their HTML. When buried, [...]
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Add beautiful full screen background images to your site.
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Easy Digital Downloads is an e-commerce plugin I have developed purely for selling digital downloads. The plugin is completely free and can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin repository. This is an add-on for Easy Digital Downloads that provides an option for buyers to signup for your Mail Chimp newsletter list at the time of [...]
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This entry is part 1 of 8 in the Customizing Restrict Content Pro Series Add Custom User Meta Fields to Restrict Content Pro Registration → Mail Chimp for Restrict Content Pro Add Custom User Meta Fields to Restrict Content Pro Registration Removing “Restrict This Content” Meta Box in Restrict Content Pro Restrict Content Pro – [...]
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Ninja Forms is a super awesome, powerful, and free forms plugin for WordPress. If you need to build contact forms, surveys, proposal forms, even post submission, Ninja Forms will work wonders for you. This is a small extension I built that adds MailChimp integration into Ninja Forms so that your users can easily subscribe to [...]
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Mark as Read is a plugin for WordPress that gives your users a way to keep track of the posts they have read, and those they have not. The plugin lets your users mark posts as read / unread as they view them. Everything is performed with ajax for a seamless, smooth experience.
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Easily customize the dashboard columns for all your post types. This plugin gives you a really easy to use way to modify and manage the table columns for your post types. You can display post type entry titles, categories, tags, excerpts, authors, custom meta fields, thumbnails, and custom taxonomies. Customize the columns for each built-in [...]
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This plugin provides a very powerful widget that can be used to display a list of posts published by a specific author. With 13 configurable options, this widget is extremely flexible and will suit any WordPress site. It is especially well suited for multi-author blogs that wish to show off posts by a particular author.
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This plugin provides a very powerful widget that can be used to display a list of terms from any taxonomy, and also a list of recent posts for each term in the taxonomy.
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I run a dedicated support forum for my premium plugins, and it uses the wonderful new bbPress 2.0 forum plugin. The support forum has been active less than a month and already I’m seeing an influx of spam replies to the actual support topics posted by real users. Of course this is annoying and, at [...]
View Post anti-bot, anti-spam, bbpress, captcha, recaptchaRelated Posts Plugins are very popular as a method for WordPress users to display related content at the end of their posts, providing the reader with additional relevant content. Typically, related posts plugins use Post Tags to compare posts and find those that are related to the currently displayed post.
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This add-on for Restrict Content Pro lets you track and award affiliate earnings through the Affiliates plugin, both light and pro versions. If you’d like to boost your site’s membership and reward those that help you do so, this add-on will help you do just that.
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This is an add-on for the Restrict Content Pro that adds support for restricting bbPress forum and topics to paid members. While it does not have nearly the robust options that Restrict Content Pro offers for restricting content, this bbPress extension provides the features that 99% of users need: the simple ability to limit forum [...]
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This entry is part 4 of 8 in the Customizing Restrict Content Pro Series ← Removing “Restrict This Content” Meta Box in Restrict Content ProRestrict Content Pro – Graphs → Mail Chimp for Restrict Content Pro Add Custom User Meta Fields to Restrict Content Pro Registration Removing “Restrict This Content” Meta Box in Restrict Content [...]
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This plugin is an add-on for Restrict Content Pro, a complete subscription and premium content manager plugin for WordPress. Once activated, this plugin will provide a new menu item under the Restrict menu called “CSV Import”. In order to import correctly, you must preformat your CSV to match the requirements of the plugin. You CSV [...]
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Display graphs of earnings and member signups in Restrict Content Pro
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Add a simple math verification field to Restrict Content Pro
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Restrict Content Pro is a complete membership and premium content manager plugin for WordPress. It allows you to create an unlimited number of memberships levels, including free, trial and premium. You can easily Manage members and their subscriptions, track payments, offer discounts with a complete discount code system, and provide premium, members-only content to your [...]
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Integrate PayPal Pro and/or Express with Restrict Content Pro
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A powerful subscription and premium content plugin
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Integrate the Stripe payment system with Restrict Content Pro
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Restrict Content Pro is a plugin for managing premium content in WordPress. It provides a complete subscription system that makes it very easy to deliver premium content to paid subscribers. This is an add-on plugin that provides the option to display a “join my newsletter” option on the Restrict Content Pro registration form that integrates with [...]
View Post restrict content pro, WysijaThis plugin will very easily let you restrict content on your WordPress site to registered users. It permits you to restrict entire posts / pages or individual sections of content within a post or page.
View Post members only, membership, restrictBeing able to restrict certain content to logged in members only is a very useful function, especially for membership based websites, whether free or premium. This quick tutorial shows you the basics of how to write a short code function that will allow you to limit blocks of content to logged in users only.
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Campaign Monitor is one of the net’s most popular email newsletter services. This is a little plugin that adds several ways for you to add email list signup forms to your WordPress website.
View Post campaign monitorContactology is an email marketing service, and this is a simple plugin that allows you to integrate your Contactology account with your WordPress site.
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Simple Full Screen Background Image will allow you to easily upload and set a full screen image as the background of your WordPress website. Images will be automatically scaled with the browser, so regardless of the browser size, the image will always fill the screen, even as the browser is resized live.
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This plugin will enable a simple short code that you can use for embedding Google Maps in any WordPress post or page. The short code uses the WordPress HTTPS API and the Transients API for delivering cached maps with little to no impact on your site’s performance.
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Mail Chimp is one of the net’s most popular email newsletter services. This is a little plugin that adds several ways for you to add email list signup forms to your WordPress website. When a visitor fills out the form, they are immediately added to your email subscription list.
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This is a simple plugin that adds a notification system to your WordPress via custom post types. Simple Notices gives you a way to make announcements that are displayed site-wide at the top of your site. Use this plugin to keep your users up to date about important announcements on the site.
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Simple Notices Pro is a WordPress plugin to display site-wide announcements on your website.
View Post annoucements, noticesThis tutorial will demonstrate the methods used to write a simple Posts By Author Widget plugin. The idea of this plugin is to provide a widget that can be used to displays posts from a specific author. The plugin this tutorial is about is a much simplified version of the [highlight_green]Posts By Author Widget Pro [...]
View Post authors, usersThis plugin, based on my Sliding Contact Form Plugin, places a simple, elegant, sliding login form for your website that will allow users to login without every leaving the page. Once a user is logged in, they are redirected back to the current page, or any custom URL defined in the plugins options page.
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A sweet and simple event calendar for WordPress
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Sugar Event Calendar is a a simple, elegant Event Calendar plugin for WordPress that keeps event management incredibly simply. This is an add-on plugin for Sugar Event Calendar that lets you easily display a Google Map of the event location on the event details page.
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Most event calendar plugins are either way too simple, or extremely overly complex and bloated. Sugar Event Calendar is designed to be simple, light weight, and provide just the major features you need for event management.
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Sugar FAQs is a complete Frequently Asked Question Management plugin for WordPress. It provides an FAQ custom post type that can be used to effortlessly add FAQ sections to your website.
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Sugar Modal Windows provides an easy-to-use interface for creating Modal popup windows for your WordPress powered website.
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Create Beautiful Sliders with Ease Sugar Slider makes it as easy as it could possibly be to create gorgeous sliders for your WordPress powered site. Forget nasty custom fields and image URLs. You can even forget about manually resizing every image before you upload it.
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Short Codes are great, except that they are not always very user friendly, especially for those users that are not very familiar with programming, because, let’s face, short codes look like code.
View Post modal, short codes, shortcodesThis entry is part 9 of 9 in the User Submitted Image Galleries Series ← User Submitted Image Gallery – Part 8 User Submitting Gallery Images – Part 1 User Submitted Gallery Images – Part 2 User Submitted Image Gallery – Part 3 User Submitted Image Gallery – Part 4 User Submitted Image Gallery – [...]
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This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css.
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WP e-Commerce is a very popular and powerful e-commerce plugin for WordPress. This is a little add-on that I’ve created for WP e-Commerce that allows you to view graphs of your monthly earnings from sales.
View Post graphs, wp-ecommerce, wpecEasily insert nicely styled message boxes and download buttons into your posts with WP shortcodes. This plugin lets you very easily insert utility boxes and buttons, which can be used for any number of things, such as drawing your visitors to important information. For example, download links.
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