Recent Comments

Jodies

This plugin displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.

Features
# Highly configurable via WordPress’ admin interface.
# Adjustable layout by macros.
# Different handling of trackbacks and normal comments.
# Support for gravatars.
# Option to exclude comments to posts in certain categorys
# Installable by one-click-install
# Doesn’t show pingbacks originating from own blog

Get Weather

WP Plugins

A plugin for getting and displaying the current weather conditions in any given locale. GetWeather is very simple to use, but can return a range of data.

A plugin by Jeff

Email Notification

Watershed Studios

This plugin allows people to signup to be notified when a new entry is posted to your blog and once they’re confirmed it sends them an email every time a new entry is posted to your blog. It also allows them to unsubscribe if they wish.

This plugin was written by Brian Groce and is based on Jon Anhold’s Email Notification Hack. And a HUGE hat tip goes out to Jeff Mikels for the HTML templating functionality.

Get Recent Post Plugin

Tony’s Cafe

This is a plugin that satisfies a simple need in WordPress. A function that returns text from one post (the most recent) for one category. That’s it! :) Save the Get Recent Post plugin to your wordpress/wp-content/plugins directory, then remove the .txt extension.

Wordpress Church Themes

Some good looking sites here that have downloadable church style Wordpress themes.

Church Themes

Wordpress as a CMS

I have just found a plugin that takes Wordpress into a new depth of cms. It is fantastic and can be found at:
Get-a-post.

The basic concept is using this code [php get_a_post(id); ] (I have substituted the Wordpress page or post anywhere on a page. It really is very excellent.

The code I have used is available as a zip file at:
The Zip File.

As you can see I have saved the file as a template called “about.php” and then attached this template to each of the pages mentioned above. It really was very easy to do.

A HUGE thanks to Moshula who pointed the plugin out to me and also to Kaf who produced the plugin.

Rich

Wordpress Related Entries Plugin

Continuing on the seo related search I am applying the Wordpress Related Entries Plugin. It makes a list of five related posts below your content for great deep linking and possible usefulness.

Let’s wait and see how it helps.

Rich

Duh Gallery Update

Well I only posted about this gallery a short while ago but I wanted to repost because the developer has added some features which I have to say is very quick work!

In less than the few hours ago that I started using the plugin, Nate has added, a previous/next button that sits rather nicely on top of each picture and also ensured the plugin works for those that don’t use fancy urls.

I have also suggested a couple of additions to the plugins. One would be options to style through css and additionally add an option to choose certain directories for the photos.

This is an excellent plugin and those that like simplicity should look to use it.

Rich

WP Gallery (another)

Hi All

I have just visited the site of Nate Ritter and discovered yet another WP Gallery. I am always on the lookout for a gallery that works very simply with wp. I think I might have just found it! I think it probably needs some more work to it but I have to say that at present this is a winning gallery. I love it. It is fantastically simple to use and other than an issue with the rich text editor (which I turn off anyway!), there are no problems in using this gallery.

Visit Nate Ritter for more info.

Thanks Nate.

Custom Contact Form

I recently uploaded the plugin written by VaamYob to a site. However, as admin of the site I kept getting all the contact emails. In the contact form created by VaamYob it is not possible to allocate an alternative email address. The plugin also came up with an annoying Your Info message that customers didn’t appreciate. And so I have duly developed the plugin on slightly! You can now get rid of the annoying message and allocate an alternative email address.

To use the form place this is a page or post:

A suggested style sheet code has also been added to the form. However, if you want to review the code it is also listed below.

The new plugin can be downloaded here.
The original plugin can be found here.

Rich

VaamYob on his site suggests styling the code with this:
.custom_contact_row {
margin: 10px 0px 20px 0px;
margin: 15px 0px 15px 0px;
clear: left;
}
.custom_contact_label {
font-size: 1em;
float: left;
width: 120px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
.custom_contact_label_required {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1em;
float: left;
width: 120px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
.custom_contact_data {
float: left;
padding-left: 5px;
}
.custom_contact_data textarea {
width: 85%;
}
.custom_contact_buttons {
clear: left;
padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
border-top: 1px solid gray;
}