I’ve just finished some modifications to my Shapeshifter WordPress theme. The WordPress Shapeshifter theme is actually base on the Chameleon WordPress theme I was creating but it seems that there is another WordPress theme of the same name so I decided to change it to Shapeshifter.
I’ve just placed the WordPress Auto Correct and is_mobile plugins at WordPress Plugins repository. You can now also download them from the WordPress web site.
You can find the WordPress Auto Correct plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kih-wordpress-auto-correct/ while the is_mobile WordPress plugin is at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/txtu-is-mobile/
I’ve been cleaning up the code of the Web Directory WordPress plugin I’ve created so that I can make it available for download. I decided to start creating this plugin by using the existing core bookmarking code available in WordPress to make it easier for people that have WordPress sites to add a web directory into their blog.
My plan is to create an initial usable version that focuses on simplicity and ease of installation plus optimizing it for search engines thru the use of permalinks. I’ve also added some code so that the page title and description for the categories are properly initialized. This should add more plus points when the web directory gets crawled by the search engines.
I’ve finally segrated the code for a Web directory from the Chameleon WordPress theme and created it into a WordPress plugin. The code is now working in my computer. It uses the internal link tables that WordPress uses for its bookmarks functions instead of creating my own tables. I’m currently testing it and hopefully put it into production on one of my web sites on the Internet.
Over the following days, my goal is to test and clean up the code so that it would be easy for people to put up a web directory on their own blog without to much of a hassle and also keep it working by using available core functions in WordPress instead of re-inventing things. Once I’ve stabilized the initial version, I’ll make it available on my projects page for people to download and use.
One of the things I’ve placed here at Code Stuff is breadcrumbs navigation. Breadcrumbs navigation is very useful for web site visitors because it allows them to easily navigate a web site. It’s such a very useful feature I wonder why it hasn’t made it to the WordPress core.
I used the simple and useful WordPress plugin called Yoast Breadcrumbs by Joost de Valk. I’ve made some more updates to the Web Directory code I have been using here. Last time I made some mods to include permalinks. This time, I needed to be able to update the breadcrumbs navigation so that it will reflect the correct link category path. So I made some modifications of my own to the WordPress Breadcrumbs plugin for my needs. The modification is actually simple. I added some code so that I could filter the breadcrumbs created by the WordPress plugin. Now my web directory page’s breadcrumbs navigation is correctly updated (checkout the screenshot).
If you want a copy of the modified Yoast Breadcrumbs WordPress plugin, you can download it from the link below.
breadcrumbs.zip
I’ve been following on the upcoming version 2.8 of WordPress. One of the major focus of this next version of WordPress is the sizeable changes being done to the widgets system. I liked the idea of bringing back the good old days of drag and drop to the widgets which makes it a lot easier to configure widgets for a blog.
Besides the overhaul of the widgets component of WordPress in version 2.8, the other thing I noticed is the welcome addition of descriptions for tags. You might have noticed that prior to version 2.8 only categories have descriptions.
I’ve been putting more time to finishing my WordPress Chameleon Theme over the past few days so that I could be able to fully use it on my web sites. Once I’m done with the base code, it would be easier for me to make layout changes on the same WordPress theme.
Today, I’ve just finished putting WordPress pretty permalinks on the Web Directory module of the WordPress Chameleon theme. Links that use to look like this — “/links?cat=developers“, now look like this — “/links/developers“. I’ve also updated the module so that the proper <title> and <description> head tags will be properly set to the correct values for improved SEO and search engine indexing.
I just started putting up my web directory for WordPress, web development, PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML and other code related stuff that I come across and find useful on the Internet. The directory is located here. If you have any code / development related site that can be useful for others let me know. If I like it I’ll put it on my directory.
I’ve now added a Code Stuff project page on the site where I will post the coding projects for download. I’ve initially put an updated Kih is_mobile WordPress plugin that you can download. I tested the plugin over the weekend using WordPress 2.7.1 to make sure it’s working. You can download the Kih is_mobile plugin from the project page.
I’ll be adding some more WordPress plugins to the Projects and a couple of WordPress themes that I have created. You can subscribe to the Code Stuff feed if you want to get updated.
The latest (from version 2.6) version of Wordpress has support for making the admin section of your Wordpress site use SSL or Secure Sockets Layer. This means that you’d be able to encrypt your admin pages if you want to.
Encrypting the admin pages provides more security for your Wordpress site. In order to enforce SSL in your admin pages you need to do things a couple of things.
