Hello all!!!
Don’t know if anyone will find this useful but decided to write it anyway. This page contains some of the plugins that I have installed in WordPress. List Of Plugins:
- Advanced WYSIWYG Editor
- Same Looks Without Using the PlugIn Above
- Akimets
- Anarchy Media Player
- ChennPress
- Coppermine
- Next Gen Gallery
- Sidebar Widgets
- WP-ContactForm III
- WP SlimeBox
1. Advanced WYSIWYG Editor
Awesome plugin makes the usual TinyMCE (the visual editor inbuilt into WordPress) extended. Gives all the whicked options that the usual basic TinyMCE missing, or the ones that I was missing.
I got this plug in from: http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=275.
Now I have had quite a few problems with making it work. The problems are not directly related to the plugin, but to the TinyMCE editor that was throwing an error or more of a warning screen”Are you sure you want to navigate away form this page?” with a “Yes” and “No”, and the post wouldn’t save regardless what button you click “SAVE”, “Publish”. It just wouldn’t save.
I managed to resolve the problem after few days of poking the code and google. Now I am no guru in code all I was doing is grabbing suggestions from ppl from different thread, most of them didnt fix my problem. Finally I stumbled upon this thread: http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?p=20864. Which is completely unrelated to WordPress but is related to TinyMCE.
The problem was that for some reason the JAVA script in TinyMCE was always referring to www.domain.com, and because in option my blog was put in as domain.com, there was an “Access Denied” error.
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=22041
After changing the blog address to www.domain.com.
I still had a problem where I couldn’t save posts, but that was fixed by re-uploading the original tinymce files back to/wp-includes/js/tinymce/. After that I followed Instructions from the read me in the zipped plugin, one plugin from there advimage was killing TinyMCE so I left it out and VOILA!!!
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And it Looks awesome and has all I need.
1.1 Same Looks Without Using the PlugIn Above
Notes for Now: About No PlugIn Conf, used the modified “tiny_mce_config.php”, that is situated in wp-includes/js/tinymce/
Also modified the file myself a littlebit. By adding the PLUGINS from TinyMCE Web Site and Integrating those into the file above.
Current PlugIns in use are:
- advhr
- advimage
- advlink
- autosave
- cleanup
- directionality
- inlinepopups
- paste
- searchreplace
- spellchecker
- style
- table
- wordpress
- wphelp
Problems:
- Some plugins cause an error “Are you sure you want to navigate away form this page”, talking about TinyMCE plugins.
- Had to sort through different version of TinyMCE to try the plugins and finally combined a package that works for me.
- Inline Gallery Lite – was causing the above navigation error, replaced inline gallery with NextGen Gallery.
In order to use the file above download it and extract into wp-includes/js/tinymce/
2. Akimets:
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.
3. Anarchy Media Player
This Plug in is really awesome, it actually converts a link like:
<a href="http://gallery.andriy.ws/albums/userpics/10001/JerryC-CR.wmv">Download Link</a> <br>JerryC - Canon Rock</p> Into This --> VIDEO JerryC - Canon Rock
And this plugin does it for all of the below formats: One bad thing I found is if you want to give a link of a file to download, you still get a player like above. But then renaming helped.
Plays mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, avi, asf and wmv hypertext links directly on your web-page. Adds buttons to the post editor for embedding swf movies including Google Video etc. Edit all player options in anarchy_media/config.php By An-archos.
4. Chennpress
This is a WYSIWYG plugin, which replace the default editor with FCKeditor v2.1.1. By W. Chen. This look very good and works good but then all the I didnt know how to insert the buttons for the gallery plugins I was already using so I stick to TinyMCE, but do keep this a a backup.
5. Coppermine
Was thinking if such plugin after i choose Coppermine Gallery and couldn’t find a good one. There was this one Coppermine CS
http://oddy.net/blog/wordpress-widgets/
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This page contains some of the plugins that I have installed in WordPress. The hardest by all was selecting a nice and easy gallery plugin. I had a choice of 3:
- Coppermine Gallery
- Gallery 2
- Inline Gallery
- Nextgen Gallery (Coming Soon)
Number 1 – Coppermine Gallery.
So I have installed the “Coppermine Gallery” was nice and easy readme document has all the required info to run a successful install. You can see the results here COPPERMINE GALLERY. The gallery works good handle shit-loads of image formats as well as movies and heaps of file formats. Also there are batch uploads to the gallery only from the server side but works a charm, since the hosting I am on supports unzipping. All I had to do was zip the files chuck them on the server then unzip them thought the hosting Control Panel and just add em all.
Then use the link directly from the COPPERMINE GALLERY and paste it in the post. Like I did here
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With few simple clicks using the WYSI-WordPress Editor, this picture in the post point you to the gallery with all the pics.
Number 2 – Gallery 2.
FFS this was a pain to do this I needed to install the Gallery2 script, which wasn’t very hard but it’s not as quick and as elegant as Coppermine Gallery. The good thing about this script is that is was integrable into WordPress by using the WPG2. And then all it was doing is grabbing the link to the gallery within Gallery2 and creating th thumbnail at the same time, saves few clicks but still not the best.
Number3 – Inline Gallery.
This plugin was very easy to use and to install. The installation procedure was very simple, even thought I got a little confused on how to put the galleries into the post. Eventually I worked it out and here it is.
Example:
A very cool thing about this plugin is the java script it uses to bring up the pictures. Try clicking on those. The only problem with the plugin is that it cannot handle large images. I had to resize them and also when I put 150 images into the folder it would not display them until I left 106 image in the folder. So looks like there is a limit, which could be due to hosting limits.
Other Plugins
Theres few other plugins I am using on the site. One of them is this Anarchy-Media-Player. This plugin converts any multimedia file into a multimedia content instead of the link. Very ease to use and very easy to install.
Redirect to Page
Current Version: Redirect to Page 1.2
Although not a true plugin, Redirect to Page does have it’s use. Redirect to Page will allow you to link to another site or non-WP page without touching the theme’s files. This is useful for adding things to your top navigational menu bar that WordPress does not manage, such as a forum.
Installation
Extract redirect.php from redirect.zip and upload to your theme’s directory. Your theme’s directory can be found at /wp-content/themes/theme name/.
Usage
Create a new page in WordPress and select the page template as Redirect. Within that new page form scroll down to the custom field section. Add a new key with the key name being redirect, and the value being the URL you want to redirect to.
Download Redirect to Page
Current Version: 1.2 Released: 10/01/06 Download Redirect to Page 1.2
Version History
1.2 – Bug Fixes
- Fixes the “OK Redirect” message some users are experiencing.
1.1 – Minor Update
- Optimized Code
- Either redirect or Redirect can now be used as the key name.
1.0 – Initial Release Coppermine Integration Plugin: