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The built in ‘wp_register’ function is hard-coded to display either a ‘Register’ or a ‘Site Admin’ link. If you want to display different wording, you’re out of luck, until now. The jpf_register function allows you to determine what text is displayed as the link for registering. It also allows you to include what text or coding you want included before or after the link. Finally, if you don’t want a link to be displayed at all if a user is already registered (based on if they are logged in or not), it can do that to. The plugin accepts the following parameters:

jpf_register ( '<before>', '<after>', '<not_registered>', '<registered>')

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The built in ‘wp_loginout’ function is hard-coded to display either a ‘Login’ or a ‘Logout’ link. If you want to display different wording, you’re out of luck, until now. The jpf_loginout function allows you to determine what text is displayed as the link for logging in or out. It also allows you to include what text or coding you want included before or after the link. The plugin accepts the following parameters:

jpf_loginout ( '<before>;', '<after>', '<login>', '<logout>') Read more…

I wanted to use a calendar on my site, but keep it as small as possible. I found that the layout for the Wordpress default calendar could be more efficient if the links to the next and previous months were moved to the top, on either side of the current month name, instead of at the bottom where they just take up extra room. To install this plugin, simply copy the jpf_calendar.php file to your plugins folder and activate. This works exactly like the default Wordpress calendar, just insert <?php jpf_calendar(); ?> where you want the calendar to appear. You can then control how it looks using CSS, the exact same way as the standard calendar. The calendar below uses this plugin, so you can see how it might look, again, the difference is that the next/previous month links are on either side of the name of the current month, and all of the appearance (colors, fonts, sizes, etc) can be changed in your CSS. Read more…

I recently came to realize that WordPress allows one post to have muliple pages by simply adding the code <!--nextpage--> in your post. If your template includes the ‘link_pages’ or ‘wp_link_pages’ function, it will stop the post at that point, and place navigation there for the other pages. I liked the way MSN.com articles have their multi-page navigation, and wanted to do the same with my blogs, but the built in ‘link_pages’ function couldn’t do it for a couple reasons, so I modified it to my liking. I’ve divided this post into a number of short pages so you can see how it can be used, though their are many ways to use it, especially in combination with the original ‘link_pages’ function. Read more…

I’d previously released a Wordpress plugin called “Joe’s Quotes WordPress Plugin” (since upgraded to “JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin”) that allows you to have a quote, and the picture of the character that said the quote, in your sidebar. Since then, a new Widgets framework has become available that makes adding and organizing sidebar items much easier. So, Joe’s Quotes Widget is a ‘port’ of the Joe’s Quotes Plugin that works with the new widget plugin (the Widget plugin is required). This base package comes with the Simpsons quotes already installed (though you can delete them if you don’t want them). The JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin page contains a number of other quotes packages you can easily add. Just download the quotes package of choice, unzip, and place the contents in ‘plugins/widgets/joesquotes’. They become instantly available. The included readme file has full installation instructions, if you have any problems or comments, please leave them below. Note that the JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin is the newest in the series and offers the most configuration options.

Joe’s Subscription Widget is a Wordpress plugin that works with the new Widgets plugin system. The plugin creates a section in your sidebar that contains links to your e-mail and RSS or ATOM subscriptions. Note that you must already have an e-mail subscription service setup, subscribe2 is a great option.

The plugin requires you first install the Widgets plugin and get it working with your theme. Once it’s working, the install of this plugin is easy:

• Unzip the package and put subscription.php and the directory JoesWidgets in the widgets folder (should be /wp-content/plugins/widgets)
• Log in into your Wordpress account
• Change to the Plugin Management and activate Joe’s Subscription Widget component
• Go to the Sidebar Widgets tab on the Presentation Management page and drag ’subscription’ to your sidebar
• Click the options button on ’subscription’ and enter your desired section title, E-Mail description and URL, and RSS/ATOM description and URL

I’ve modified the Joe’s Simpsons Quotes plugin to make it work with other quotes as well. The code is cleaned up quite a bit, and should be ready to go (it’s working great for me!). The plugin currently has quotes from The Simpsons and from Seinfeld, but it’s easily customized to your liking. See the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions, and let me know what you think!

Version 2.0 now makes it easier to add quotes of your choice as ‘packages’.

***NOTE*** Version 3 now available as JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin

I saw Phunky’s “Simpsons Quote” plugin for WordPress, and I knew I wanted to have that on my page! Once I had it installed, I wanted to make some formatting changes (so the quotes don’t wrap under the pic, etc), which turned out to be a complete overhaul. Have a look at my version, which is more flexible in how you can format it (the picture and text are treated separately). I’ve set mine up in a table with the quote to the right of the picture, but you can modify the ‘Generate HTML’ section of the simpsons.php file to have it appear as you wish. I’m also adding more characters and more quotes, so updated versions should give even more variety.

If you have additional quotes, send them to me in tab delimited form, with character name first, then a tab, then the quote, and I’ll add them to the quote file for the next release. If any questions or comments, let me know. This is my first PHP plugin, so I’ll do the best I can to solve any problems…

No longer available, replaced by JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin.