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Three NEW BuddyPress Plugins! (Custom Groups Name, Group Authors Widget, Group Registration)

By / February 18, 2010 /

UPDATE: This page will no longer be updated. Instead, please visit the Hardly Neutral WordPress plugins page. Eric Johnson did all of the coding and deserves all of the credit for these three great plugins! I commissioned them for a project and am posting them here with Eric’s permission. As an FYI, these are all…

Change the Sort Order of the “Better Blogroll” WordPress Plugin

By / September 11, 2009 / Comments Off

The Better Blogroll WordPress plugin sorts your links randomly. There is no built-in option to change this. BUT, if you are willing to delete a couple of words from the plugin’s core file, you can hook it into My Link Order or any other link ordering methods you might be using. To stop the random…

“Books I Am Reading” Plugin Extends “Now Reading Reloaded”

By / August 21, 2009 / Comments Off

I had a quandry today. I needed some functionality not provided in a plugin. The question: Do I edit the “Now Reading Reloaded” WordPress plugin, or do I build a plugin that extends it? I chose the latter, and this is why: Normally when i want to customize an existing plugin, I will edit the…

Include/Exclude Category from WordPress wp_get_archives()

By / July 22, 2009 /

For some reason, WordPress’ “wp_get_archives()” function does not allow us to include or exclude categories by default. This is weird, because many other WordPress hooks include this basic functionality. Thankfully, after struggling for a bit today, I discovered this plugin that solves the issue. It hooks directly into the WordPress core, so customizing is a…

Set Your WordPress Columns to Equal Heights!

By / May 18, 2009 / Comments Off

After spending countless hours trying to figure out how to implement JavaScript and JQuery solutions to the infamous CSS equal column height problem, I discovered the WP Equal Columns WordPress plugin. Holy cow is this plugin awesome! Simple and awesome. Hopefully it will save you some hours. For technical reasons, WordPress has problems with certain…