Category Archives: Plugins

WP User Manager Unofficial Update

Add styling and formatting to the Wordpress Administration view of custom fields by updating WP User Manager with this unofficial update.

I install and configure WP User Manager on all commercial Wordpress-powered sites requiring custom user profile fields, Dealsway Solution’s plugin really is in a league of its own, plus I’d like to give back to [...]

Donations Cloud Minimum Donation Bug Fix

Alex from Zirona has released a Wordpress plugin that allows visitors to donate money in return for a back-link of their choice. The process has been automated and no interactions are required making this a great revenue generator for power-bloggers and niche hobbyists who can now be rewarded for their efforts.
The donations cloud is something [...]

Popularity Contest SQL and bug fix

The first step of two to fixing Popularity Contest is to edit popularity-contest.php and update the contest of a single line so the plugin can support the new Wordpress 2.5.
Open popularity-contest.php (within /wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest/) and scroll to line 59. Replace require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);
The second step is to manually create the default Popularity Contest tables within your [...]

Issue with Single Click Update for Plugins

Wordpress 2.5 includes support for ’single-click’ Wordpress plugin updates from the Plugins page within Site Administrator. Simply put, Wordpress can automatically download and install the latest version of a committed plugin as soon as it’s released into the wild.
Currently if you use single-click update for plugins the existing plugin directory is deleted and the new [...]

Custom Wordpress Administration Theme Styles

Plugin: Baltic Amber Admin Themes (available from Baltic Amber Admin Themes)
Impress your next client with attention to detail by applying their corporate style guide colours to the Wordpress Administration interface with the help of Baltic Amber Admin Themes.

Choose from fresh preset styles or apply your own defined colour set through the Colour Settings sub-menu within [...]

Remove Wordpress Administration Width Limit

Plugin: Admin Big Width (available from XoraX Source-Blog)
Anyone maintaining a Wordpress site with a larger screen resolution than 1024×768 that is not running Admin Big Width is missing out on a considerable proportion of usable screen real-estate. By removing the fixed-width Administration design restriction imposed by the Wordpress team the Administration display is now best [...]

Install Files and Database Backups

Plugin: BackUpWordpress (available from Wordpress Designpraxis)
I recently deployed BackUpWordpress - a complete backup solution for Wordpress power users - across my personal and commercial Wordpress-powered sites to avoid any unnecessary pain from lost site files and/or corrupt SQL databases.
Scheduled e-mails on a daily and monthly frequency of each site’s database are sent to dedicated e-mail [...]

Securing the Wordpress wp-admin directory

Plugin: WP-Security Scan (available from Semper Fi Web Design)
After installing WP-Security Scan - an online vulnerability scanner for Wordpress-powered sites - and analysing my test results I have locked down access to the/wp-admin/ directory in the root of my own Wordpress sites as a precaution to future Wordpress file access vulnerabilities.
This access control restricts access [...]