This plugin provides a simple way to include the contents of data files into your posts or pages. The data files can be local to your server, or on remote servers (if your PHP configuration allows it). In the options page for the plugin, just define the trigger text and the file the data will be retrieved from. When that trigger text appears in a post or page, the contents of the specified data file will be shown. More »
This is the PHP version of my secure form mailer script. This script has a wide range of features including: an easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order), multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, optional auto reply feature, an image verification system, numerous security features (including protection against email header injection), a message template system, multiple languages, and too many other things to list. This script was designed to be easy to use, while still being extremely flexible. If you just want a simple contact form, you can set one up with just a few clicks. For those of you who need something a bit more advanced, you can completely customize script plugin to fit your needs - whether it is 5 fields or 500. A WordPress plugin version is also available. ReCaptcha support has also been added, as well as support for storing the data in a delimited file. More »
This is the WordPress plugin version of my secure PHP form mailer script. This plugin has a wide range of features including: Support for multiple instances, an easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order), multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, optional auto reply feature, an image verification system, numerous security features (including protection against email header injection), a message template system, multiple languages, and too many other things to list. This plugin was designed to be easy to use, while still being extremely flexible. If you just want a simple contact form, you can set one up with just a few clicks. For those of you who need something a bit more advanced, you can completely customize the plugin to fit your needs - whether it is 5 fields or 500. A non-WordPress version is also available. ReCaptcha support has also been added, as well as support for storing the data in a delimited file. More »
This WordPress plugin allows you to create sections of text in your post or page which expand/collapse when clicked on. You simply wrap the special tags around your text, and set the ‘expand link’ (the link visitors click on to show the text). If your visitors do not have javascript enabled, the ‘expand link’ is not shown, and the text is displayed normally. More »
This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more. To see this plugin in action, visit my sitemap page. More »
The WordPress plugin API provides a large number of action and filter hooks to make plugin creation easier. While the provided hooks cover just about everything you would need for plugin development, it can occasionally be useful to have a hook that can process the entire html output of WordPress. This article describes a method that can be used to create a ‘virtual’ hook which allows processing of everything between the end of the header section, and the footer of the theme, using the output buffering feature of PHP. More »
With the release of WordPress 2.3, there were several major changes to the database structure. Most notably was the new taxonomy schema, which replaced the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables in favor of a new term based system with three new tables - terms, term_taxonomy, and term_relationships. While there are plenty of guides on the new structure, this is a simple visual guide to the relationships of these tables - specifically for category handling. This information is really only useful for those who are writing plugins or other code that interface with the database directly, and want a handy reminder of the table relationships. More »
