Kinderlose is not just an unusually-named* WordPress 2.3 plugin, but one with a very simple mission (which is good, because it's a very small plugin): It removes posts from any possible child categories under a (presumed parent) category archive. (more...)
Forgive the misuse of an absolute in the name: More Unique is a simple WordPress plugin with a simple task: to let you customize, individualize, alterize (word?) the text of the 'more' link for each post through the use of custom fields. (more...)
Search Custom Fields is not my prettiest code, but it's a relatively small WordPress 2 plugin doing two things at once. First and foremost it adds missing functionality for searching your post custom field or meta data. It also lets you use a separate template in your theme to display custom field search results. Sound cool? (more...)
Hoho, another WordPress 2 plugin: Welcome Visitor! lets you add a welcome message on the sidebar or introductory note to the home page or whatever and wherever the heck you like. You edit the message from within the WordPress administration pages. The plugin sports a healthy selection of customizable options---for a simple message plugin, that is. (more...)
There's a funky new WordPress plugin, WordPress Widgets, driving a fair percentage of the WP community to both ends of the enthusiasm spectrum. But love it or hate it, it's here to stay, and you can pretty much expect to see it end up in the WordPress core in a not to distant future version. With the appetizer out of the way, let me get to the meat of the post: a thread on the WordPress support forums lead me to the decision the example dev material provided is a bit weak, especially for the neophyte plugin writer. So in the interest of avoiding dozens of similar yelps for guidance over the months to come, I tore through the widgets that tag along with WordPress Widgets (the Google and del.icio.us ones) and after an hour had merged, molded and abused them into an example widget (with lots of explanatory comments!). And now I'm passing that work along to anyone who wants it. The widget can be considered useful, to boot. (more...)
Gotta love the various goofy "Day" things the Internet seems to go crazy for. In honor of Dustin Diaz's idea to make every April 5th CSS Naked Day, I'm releasing a WordPress plugin for it. (more...)
Post Image is a WordPress 2 plugin that displays an image attachment for a post through the plugin's post_image() (or szub_post_image()) template tag. It's useful if you want to provide a unique "post image" to each post without having to manage the image references and tags within each post. (more...)
Lazy WordPress plugin posting time! Another of my did it but for some reason didn't release it plugins, Head Meta Description provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type (i.e. page you're on). Some search engines are supposed to love this tag, so I guess we should, too. (more...)
Another WordPress plugin I had sitting around doing nothing. Might as well release it, and make it look like I'm busy on the blog... The META Relationship Links plugin inserts a START, FIRST and LAST rel(ationship) link tag in the head of your blog pages. On individual posts it also adds tags for PREV(ious) and NEXT. START represents the home page of your blog, while FIRST and LAST are the first and last posts. PREV and NEXT are obvious (hopefully). (more...)
Inspired by a support forum thread, I wrote Email Immunizer, a little WordPress plugin which provides protection against email harvesters by taking email addresses and mailto links on your blog and converting their text to numeric character references. (more...)
Post Templates by Category (PTbC) is another WordPress plugin I've had stuck between couch cushions the last several months. The benefit of PTbC is that it lets you set custom templates for all posts within a category. (more...)
Blog Copyright is a WordPress plugin that displays a dated copyright mark. When displayed on general, category, search and author queries it provides a range of dates (first-last post years); on single posts, Pages and archive queries the year for the content will be used. Name, copyright term and reservation of rights text can be fully customized through tag parameters, or completely overridden with a custom field. (more...)