Administrative Options
Every once in a while you come across a feature or two that at the beginning seems really neat, but after a little while you realize things could run smoother or more efficiently if that feature wasn’t there. WP Feature Disable is the saving grace when it comes to getting rid of certain WordPress features. The idea is not to disable or harm the blog, but to simply help it be more efficient, use less database space, or simply hide so-called ‘nag’ screens. Turning features on and off is as simple as clicking a check-box and to make things better, nothing is permanent in case you decide you want that feature back later! » Read the Rest
A new version of our home-grown AWeber Registration Integration plugin was released today marking version 1.2. Alongside some new error handling, two new features were added to the administration panel allowing the site owner to control whether people have the option to opt-in or not during registration as well as quickly disable the plugin without having to deactivate it. We’re so proud of it we even added a screenshot to show it off. Enough talk, check it out for yourself! View the plugin information here: AWeber Registration Integration » Read the Rest
Administration Options
Often times you may have your own methods for managing users and their email addresses for purposes of marketing and newsletters. Though WordPress has a wonderful user registration capability already built in, integrating this with your 3rd party email marketing process can be quite the task. This specific plugin integrates with AWeber Communications for those of you who have accounts with them. It works by seamlessly integrating with your WordPress system such that when a user registers on your site through your standard WordPress registration form and enters their name and email, as they submit the form this information is sent along to AWeber using your WordPress account information to register them with your marketing account. » Read the Rest
We have all undoubtedly heard of the new internet sensation, Twitter! Chances are you probably already have a Twitter account or have several friends that do. Well for those of us that do have Twitter, and of course a WordPress blog, there is just something neat about the idea of incorporating them for a little cross-site promotion. Thankfully, Twitter already thought about this and produced quite a wonderful little API to do this. Now, to make it better, I have packaged everything up into a simple little plugin aptly named Humble Twitter which will allow you to display your Twitter Tweets on your WordPress blog. You can put them in your sidebar, before or after post content, pretty much anywhere you want. To top it all off I built in a few different controls that allow you to quickly and easily customize the appearance of your Tweets without having to hack through any files. » Read the Rest
This plugin has been replaced by WP Feature Disable. The same functionality, and much more, can be found in this new plugin!
This plugin has been replaced by WP Feature Disable. The same functionality, and much more, can be found in this new plugin!
WordPress is of course one of the most amazing open source projects out there for the blogging world, as I currently write this from my lovely little administration panel. (No I am not biased at all, I swear!) The problem with some of these open source ventures is that not everyone is content with the out-of-the-box features, which is ok. The lovely creators gave us the ability to install plug-ins which can further enhance our blogs and give us the ultimate functionality we are looking for. The problem though comes with those certain features some of us want that do not come all neatly packaged in a plug-in. So should we hack the core files, or dig deeper for the sake of reliability and safety? » Read the Rest
