Firefox is my favorite web browser. I’d love if the guys at Mozilla would start optimizing it for speed so it will load and run faster like Chrome or Safari. Although, admittedly slower to load than the other two web browsers, I still love Firefox because of the rich plugin apps available on the Firefox browser.
I’ve been working on a new version for the Link Directory WordPress plugin I’ve created. Just to update you of what’s coming. I’ve made some changes to the Web Directory plugin core to allow me to easily add more features in the coming versions. I’ll soon be releasing a beta version for those of you who might want to test it and provide some feedback.
I have uploaded my newest version of the Web Directory WordPress plugin here at Code Stuff and also at WordPress.org. I’ve added a new feature on version 2.6.1 to allow users of the plugin to remove the display of the “Websites/Blogs Under” prefix when displaying the header title for Link Categories. I’ve also tested it for WordPress version 2.8.2.
You can download version 2.6.1 from the Web Directory WordPress plugin project page.
Once I got started to using the plugin, it didn’t take long to find it very useful especially if you need to create more than a single form for more than one WordPress blog. But I was not being too keen on the idea of having to key in those forms too many times I decided to create a WordPress plugin for backing up and restoring the Contact Form 7 form data. It will allow me to transfer the forms data from one site to another without having to retype them. 
I thought I’d share it to whoever might need it so here I am writing this post about the Contact Form 7 Backup and Restore plugin that I have created. It’s actually on it’s initial usable version so don’t expect any bells and whistles for this ‘coz I just needed to transfer what I did for one blog to another and start making changes for that blog from the restored data.
If you’ve started a WordPress blog, probably one of the first things that would be on your list is creating a contact form so that readers would be able to interact with you. I’ve used a number of Contact Form WordPress plugins for sites I have created.
Recently, I decided to try out the WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin created by Takayuki Miyoshi. The features are flexible and simple. It allows you to create multiple contact forms for different purposes. It has support for Akismet spam filtering and captcha.
I’ve now uploaded the Web Directory WordPress plugin at the WordPress.org plugin repository. You can now also download it from from its WordPress.org page. If you have questions on using it, just use the Code Stuff contact page or post a comment at the Web Directory WordPress plugin project page.
I have now made available the Web Directory plugin for WordPress. The Link directory is built upon the core WordPress bookmarks functionality. You can manage the links using the existing WordPress functions for adding, deleting and updating bookmarks. It also uses the existing link categories that you create under WordPress.
If you have existing WordPress bookmarks, you can display them as a link directory using the plugin. It also creates search engine friend permalinks using the link category names. For more information and to download the plugin, go to the Web Directory plugin project page. I hope you’ll find it useful as additional feature of your WordPress blog.
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.
