I was looking for a widget to allow people to tell their friends about a site for a client of mine and realised that any I found in the WordPress repository were forcing you to use a third party service to do such a simple job. I wrote this plugin to do just that. It creates a widget for you to use on your site which is very flexible and requires no signups or payments to anything. It was written for a recruitment company so the screenshot shows it in the job vacancy context. The title, intro paragraph (optional) and … Continue reading
Getting the WordPress Excerpt outside of The Loop
November 16th, 2011 by Sean No comments »I have been working my way around this one for a few months now, never bothering to think about the best solution. There is not, in fact, a WordPress simple function to get the excerpt outside of the WordPress loop. Why would you want to do that you ask… Example: I have a plugin I have written to create a basic shopping cart and shop front. It makes use of a simple shortcode on a Page to generate the shop which is based on a custom post type called Products. The Loop is used on the main page itself to … Continue reading
Where on earth is that programmer?
October 29th, 2011 by Sean 2 comments »Its been a while since I last posted here so I thought I would do a quick roundup of what’s been going on and what you take look forward to in the future. I spent all of september in France with my family. We stayed just outside of St Tropez on the riviera and I was forced to cut down my working, let alone blogging, to a minimum in account of the shocking Internet speed and lack of real computer with me. Needless to say though I did get some work done although more bread and butter than stuff for … Continue reading
How to get into a WordPress site without a login, just FTP
August 22nd, 2011 by Sean 4 comments »Ok interesting problem for you… your client gives you the FTP information for his server but has no idea what the admin password is for the WordPress site you are supposed to be working on is. Sounds a little odd but in the case I experienced the user account was an Editor role which is, in effect, useless if you want to play with plugins or users etc… Here’s how I got in… WordPress stores it’s passwords as hashes in the database for security purposes. Annoying if you are trying to find out other people’s passwords though. Luckily the hashinh … Continue reading
WP Ecommerce template redirect
August 18th, 2011 by Sean 5 comments »Today I spent a good two to three hours making zero progress on a site which I was upgrading. I am making changes to the design but sadly didn’t get that far as first I decided to update WordPress and the plugins. The upgrade to WP 3.2.1 went well as did every other plugin except WP Ecommerce. I know this plugin to be a troublemaker but sadly as it’s the only half decent cart WordPress has to offer (and it’s pretty dire really). The issue I was facing is that we have a custom page template for the shop to … Continue reading
SB Comment Reviews get’s WP-Ecommerce compatibility
August 16th, 2011 by Sean No comments »My Birthday today(!) so only a quick post before I go off gallivanting with my family… I just updated my review system plugin to incorporate custom post types. On activation it adds records into it’s settings page for the custom post types you have on the system and sets the system to off for those types. So you simply add my plugin then go to the settings page and turn the system on for the post types you like. I did this because I needed to write a product review system for WP-Ecommerce today. Their system incorporates a star rating … Continue reading
WordPress plugin – SB User Cols
August 14th, 2011 by Sean No comments »Just a quick one today. I had to be able to sort the users list within the admin pages by the date the users registered for the system. This meant I had to both add the column and make it sortable. WordPress is slightly flawed with the sorting in that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do however at least it’s possible. A brief Google search turned out only requests for support on the first page so to remedy that I wrote a very simple plugin to accomplish it. Download
SB Comment Reviews
August 3rd, 2011 by Sean No comments »Another little plugin for you to play with. I was, today, looking for a simple plugin to convert WordPress comments into a kind of review/ratings system. The idea being that a comment would be left against a product posting or something similar and people could then rate the page/post at the same time. I wanted the ability to add a star rating and then keep an average against posts and pages themselves. This is only very basic for the moment but I would happily extend it according to demand. Let me know if you have any ideas for it. Features … Continue reading
