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IE6 Upgrade Option
IE6 Upgrade Option utilizes the 7.9kb script created by mihai.ile: http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ as a WordPress plugin. I preferred this script over the many alternatives due to the fact that the message is displayed with a Lightbox effect and not placed at the top of the code forcing content down and drastically altering the page appearance. IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date and providing links to download newer browsers. Links included are: IE8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome.
The web page remains visible through a transparent, Lightbox...
WordPress Database Backup: Quick Fix
The WordPress Plugin: WordPress Database Backup by Austin Matzko is one of the more intuitive backup plugins currently available and with no stern warnings to scare off the faint of heart it has held its own as a very effective and useful tool. Recently though it has come to our attention that a small issue exists for some users of WordPress 2.8 - 1.9.1 wherein the navigation menu has simply disappeared. This applies to WP-DB-Backup Version 2.2.2. The plugin performs correctly if set prior to an upgrade with scheduled emails arriving on time but with no easy way to make changes or force a manual backup. It was decided that our Clients needed immediate...
PictureBook
While doing our usual run of site updates and code adjustments we ran into a small issue, how to display WordPress bookmarks with both text and images. Utilizing the "Links" tab ( WordPress 2.7 + up ) it is possible to list them as either a list of text links or a list of image links but not both.
Several hours of research reading entries by angry WordPress users in the Support forum confident that bookmarks should only be allowed as text or images it was clear this issue needed a resolution for the better. Why not have it both ways, after all it is a computer and as such are supposed to work for us not the other way around.
So enters PictureBook...
BookMaster
BookMaster is our answer to what we feel is an odd issue with the WordPress wp_list_bookmarks tag. For those that have exercised the use of wp_list_bookmarks you are well aware that is not possible to use the bookmark category title alone without calling on the bookmarks themselves. This is, of course, with the exception of excluding all bookmark categories and this can be painful if there are a lot of them.
With the introduction of BookMaster we have solved this small issue. The concept is to allow for the use of the bookmark category title anywhere within a page or post template without being forced to list any of the bookmarks themselves....
Limit-Post Add-On
Limit-Post is one of the better WordPress post content limiters we have come across both in terms of usability and size. Developed by labitacora.net Limit-Post provides excellent control over the post character-length and even adds the ability to create "read more ..." link with a single line of code.
From labitacora.net: "We have developed a plugin for WordPress in order to control the maximum amount of characters displayed for an entry on the main page. If the set limit is surpassed a link to a page with the whole content will appear and the text on the entry will be chopped to that amount of characters, otherwise the content will be show[n]...
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