WordPress Web Directory plugin updated to 2.6.3

Starting off 2010 with an update to the WordPress Web Directory plugin. In this update, I’ve basically added a couple of features that I needed and have been requested by some people.

The first feature I’ve added is some support for incorporating a URL submission form. Being a fan of the Contact Form 7 plugin by Takayuki Miyoshi, I’ve added some support to allow people using the Web Directory plugin to create a Contact Form 7 form that will enable people to submit links. For how it looks like, you can check it out at my Connected Phone web site. The other feature is paging. With version 2.6.3, you can now separate your list of links in a category into several pages if you have a long list.

I’ve made adding a URL Submission form as simple as possible. If the Contact Form 7 plugin is installed it will load some code stuff that will allow you to use the [linkcat] shortcode on your form. The shortcode displays the list of link categories you’ve created on your site. This allow people submitting their urls to choose a web directory category. The [linkcat] shortcode works almost the same way as the “select” shortcode for the Contact Form 7 plugin with one exception – you don’t need to list down all the options. The code I have incorporated will automatically list them for you.

The previous version of the plugin was okay if you have a small list of links. But once the list of links for a category becomes long, it would be nice to be able to separate them into several “pages”. With this new version of the plugin, you can do that. You can even control the number of items that you want to display per page by setting it on the plugin’s “Manage Directory” settings page under the WordPress “Links” menu.

There is one other minor change I’ve also done. This new version now works out of the box on the default WordPress theme. You can download and try the plugin from the Web Directory WordPress plugin. If you use the plugin, hope you can tell me about it.

By the way, since I’ve released the plugin, I’ve already incorporated multi-lingual support. If you’re interested in helping out and making the plugin available in other languages, just send me a note.