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Passing parameters from PHP to Javascripts in plugins » Otto on WordPress
Much cleaner. One static and unchanging JS file to cache. Parameters get put into your HTML itself as a one-liner. You can deal with the parameters using a normal PHP array before passing them over. No need to screw around with generating Javascript from PHP or looking for wp-load or even messing with tricky actions.
via Passing parameters from PHP to Javascripts in plugins » Otto on WordPress.
Posted in QuickTip, WordPress
Tagged Javascript, Plugin Development, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugin Development
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Storing Data in WordPress Plugins – A Quick Rundown
Coding better WordPress plugins
As I’ve worked with WordPress plugins, I’ve learned new ways of working with WordPress. WordPress has tons of built-in functionality that is very useful and easy to use once discovered.
I am by no means a great PHP coder. I am still learning OOP principles and how to write code better. In creating new WordPress plugins (see a list of my plugins), I have improved how I code: writing more efficient code using WordPress functionality rather than hacks.
One of the methods of coding that I have discovered (thanks to Jeremy Clarke) is using the WP Cache and Transient APIs to store plugin data. It’s made a big difference in the speed of all my plugins.
The following is a quick review of three different ways of storing data when you code plugins or work with WordPress. This is to the best of my knowledge, and I welcome feedback/improvements in the comments.
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged Options, Plugin Development, Plugins, Transients, WordPress Development, WP Cache
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EasyVideoPlayer WordPress Plugin
Embed EasyVideoPlayer videos to WordPress
Finally add videos inside your WordPress content without the hassle!
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
It’s been hard — and very technical — to embed EVP videos inside WordPress content…until now. The EVP plugin for WordPress changes everything – it is now simple to add EVP videos to your content.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Easy Video Player, EasyVideoPlayer, Embed Video, EVP, EVP 2.0, Video, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Lottery Results – A New WordPress Plugin
Download the plugin at WordPress.org
For plugin support, please visit the support forum.
Show lottery results from all 43 states with lotteries
- Choose which games you want to display
- Choose from different lotto results layouts
- Embed results in your content using the
lottery]shortcode.
The widget automatically gets updated results every 6 hours, then they are stored in your website for very fast load times.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Lottery, Lottery Results, Powerball, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Snow Report – Ski Mountain Conditions Plugin for WordPress
Get the latest ski/snowboarding conditions from your favorite area or mountain using the Snow Report WordPress plugin.
The plugin uses the OnTheSnow.com website’s data feeds that provide the most accurate, up to date information available.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Ski Report, Snow, Snow Report, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Weather Forecasts for WordPress – WP Wunderground Plugin
This is the official plugin support page for the Wunderground plugin. Download it now from WordPress.org.
Do you need plugin support or have comments?
For information on how to use the Wunderground plugin, please view the plugin page.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Weather, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, Wunderground
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5 Easy Ways to Disable the Gravity Forms CSS Stylesheet
We can do this the easy way or the hard way. What’ll it be?
The WordPress form plugin Gravity Forms (if you don’t use it, you should — it’s great) comes with a stylesheet found at [plugin-directory]/plugins/gravityforms/css/forms.css. SEODenver.com’s is found here.
If you want to turn off styles for Gravity Forms, there are a few different ways. Here are five examples of how to turn off CSS for the form plugin.
Posted in Plugins, WordPress
Tagged CSS, Gravity Forms, Gravity Forms Mod, Gravity Forms Plugin, WordPress Development, wp_dequeue_style
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WordPress.org Changes Plugin Page Layout
WordPress.org plugin page layout change likely for usability
What the WordPress.org plugin page used to look like.
A couple of weeks ago, WordPress.org changed the layout of their plugins directory plugin pages. The update was likely to improve usability for users trying to determine whether a plugin is trustworthy and what it does. I believe the re-arranging of the page has achieved those goals.
The update removes author links
The layout redesign removes links to the official plugin page. I believe this makes it more difficult for users trying to get support on plugins.
Removing links also affects plugin authors. One of the ways that plugin authors are “rewarded” for creating plugins used to be a link from the WordPress.org website. This resulted in two things: increased traffic to the author’s website and some passed SEO value from the WordPress website to the author’s website.
I recommend all authors to go back through their readme.txt files and add a link to their support pages.
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Layout, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress.org
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Auto-Optimize WordPress Database without a Plugin
These horses are somehow not cool. Speeding up your blog is.
I am working on a WordPress project that has a pretty heavy database, and I want to be able to auto-optimize the WordPress database. Even though they are integrating this functionality into WordPress 3.0, I want it now, and without having to use a plugin (I have had some issues with WP-DBManager configuring properly on a few sites).
If you add the following code to your functions.php file, it will automatically optimize your WordPress database every 6 hours, keeping it squeaky clean.
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged Database, Functions.php, load time, Optimization, Speed, WordPress Development, WordPress Functions, WP-DBManager
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