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Category Archives: Wordpress

Top 12 Underrated WordPress Plugins for Commercial Sites

pageMash
pageMash is a great visual drag-and-drop plugin for managing the ordering and visibility of published pages on your site.
Viper’s Video Quicktags
Adding hosted videos from YouTube and other services doesn’t get any easier! With simple to use TinyMCE integration embedding a clip is as easy as the click of a button, pasting your video URL and [...]

Adding Minimum Donation Checking to Donations Cloud Plugin

I’ve just redeployed the Donation Cloud plugin for WordPress by Alex Günsche on Visser Labs, it’s sitting in the right sidebar.
I made a note when I was last using Donations Cloud to add a minimum donation check to ensure that all donations are larger than the minimum specified in /wp-content/plugins/donationscloud/settings.php and consequently create a link in [...]

List of WordPress Plugins & Addons for NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN for WordPress has steadily been picking up traction across commercial WordPress powered sites and blogs  for its image management, slideshow and power-user features, so too has development of plugins and addons further extending an already impressive plugin! Listed are emerging and known WordPress plugins for NextGEN Gallery.

Thumbnail Generation PHP Memory Limit NextGEN Gallery

When uploading a set of admittedly large images using NextGEN Gallery to my WordPress site I exceeded my web hosts default memory usage allocation for PHP applications. The error was:
Follow thumbnails could not created. sample.jpg (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 80.65 MByte)
This issue can be resolved by increasing the memory usage allocation at [...]

WP-Forum PHP Date function bug fix

Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /htdocs/michaelvisser/wp-content/plugins/wp-forum/forum-functions.php on line 668
Look familiar? There is a bug in the current release of WP-Forum which exists in the plugin’s PHP function ul() hidden away in cookies.php of the plugin root directory. To fix this issue open cookies.php with your favourite text editor and [...]

Donations Cloud Minimum Donation Bug Fix

Alex from Zirona has released a Wordpress plugin that allows visitors to donate money in return for a back-link of their choice. The process has been automated and no interactions are required making this a great revenue generator for power-bloggers and niche hobbyists who can now be rewarded for their efforts.
The donations cloud is something [...]

Wordpress as a workplace Intranet system

Over the past month I’ve been stretching a vanilla installation of Wordpress (now 2.5.1) into a secure Intranet site for distributing news updates as well as an enabling technology for performing electronic tasks across the workplace.
To date it’s been a complete hit with staff placing high and frequent demand on the system from a staff [...]