If you want to create a link to activate a plugin, you need to know the path of the plugin file. Let’s use Akismet for this example.
$path = 'akismet/akismet.php';
$link = wp_nonce_url(admin_url('plugins.php?action=activate&plugin='.$path), 'activate-plugin_'.$path);
The `$link` URL will be something like http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&_wpnonce=f97dabdf9
If you want to define a Google Analytics “UA String” while using Yoast Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.
Add the following to your theme’s `functions.php` file:
add_filter( 'option_Yoast_Google_Analytics', 'custom_ua_string_filter');
function custom_ua_string_filter($options = array()) {
$options['uastring'] = 'UA-########-#';
$options['manual_uastring'] = true;
return $options;
}
For users of WordPress Multisite, this will allow you to pre-configure new blogs with the same UA string.
To enable shortcodes inside your Gravity Forms form description, field labels and descriptions, you need to add the following code to your theme’s `functions.php` file:
“
add_filter(‘gform_pre_render’, ‘walker_do_shortcode_gform_description’, 10, 2);
function do_shortcode_gform_description(&$item, $key) {
$item = do_shortcode($item);
}
function walker_do_shortcode_gform_description($form, $ajax) {
$form[‘description’] = do_shortcode($form[‘description’]);
array_walk_recursive($form[‘fields’], ‘do_shortcode_gform_description’);
return $form;
}
“
I found people are coming to this site (to an unrelated article) looking for a way to merge settings into an array.
The main function for WordPress to do this is `wp_parse_args()`. You likely want this function.
Learn more about `wp_parse_args()`
This is used for parsing shortcode options. It only supports defined arguments.
I just visited Mitt Romney’s website for the first time and noticed right away that his site looked cheap because his button images had been so compressed for load time.
For comparison, here are some similar boxes on BarackObama.com
I don’t think the affect of the bad quality comes across in these pictures. I encourage you to compare and contrast.
I have previously written on how to determine if a widget is active. This is helpful for widgets, but not for plugins.
WordPress has a couple of different functions that help you determine plugin status. They are both located in wp-includes/plugin.php
Using these two functions, I put together a one-size-fits-all function `get_plugin_status()`. Continue reading “Simple Way to Get Plugin Status in WordPress”
I use Panic Coda for coding. I like its Mac-style interface and it “fits” me well. There are some items that are frustrating, including a lack of auto-complete for functions you’ve already used in your code. Here are three tips to improve your coding experience. Continue reading “A WordPress Developer's Tips for Using Panic Coda”
Remember when Google was ten blue links?
Today, for the first time, I was actually taken aback by the amount of visual crap on Google results.
IDX+ is a project I’ve been working on for months. It was born came out of necessity: a client told me “there is no perfect solution for WordPress real estate websites.” After looking into it, I realized he was right.
IDX+ is the solution to your real estate website’s problems. Continue reading “Introducing IDX+, WordPress Real Estate & IDX Done Right”
I have put the BoulderSEO.com domain up for auction: with the upcoming release of the top-secret WordPress real estate plugin, I have chosen to sell this prime property.
The BoulderSEO.com auction will be ending in 18 hours, so if you’re into Colorado, Denver, Loveland, or Boulder SEO (you get the idea!), check out this auction.
Currently priced at only $660 – it’s a great deal! With literally no work done on the site since April, 2009, I still get 1-2 leads/month from this site. This domain will pay for itself in a month.
You may have noticed this blog has gone un-updated. That’s because I’ve been working on an awesome new plugin.
In the past, I’ve written posts about how to optimize your WordPress real estate website for SEO and I’ve created a Trulia plugin for WordPress.
This WordPress real estate plugin changes the game of what you can do with your WordPress website — and for how much money. No longer do you need to pay tens of thousands of dollars for an indexed IDX solution.
Next week I will release a beta version, so stay tuned for the formal announcement.
RAMP allows you to make all the changes you need in your staging environment, then selectively push these changes to your production site. You can set up a new section of your site, upload some images to fill out a nice carousel for it, and add a link to it on your home page. Once this content has been reviewed and approved, you can go to your RAMP page, select these content changes, and push them to your production site.
This would be really handy for larger WordPress sites.
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most URL shortener services.
I’m not the only one who wanted these things, so I’ve created a plugin that adds Google Analytics tracking to Yourls. It’s very cool.
I was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features:
Other smaller offerings may have had both features, but they also seem unreliable. I wanted control of my links. Continue reading “YOURLS URL Shortener”
The +1 Button uses an advanced sprite technique to simulate an animated `gif`. The animation occurs when hovering over search results with +1 enabled, and the shine moves across the button. (The image to the right is an animated `gif` I made…)
The +1 Button is not an animated `gif`, however. It’s a sprite image that moves a background image across the “window” of the button using Javascript. The code, if you care, goes something like this:
`onmouseover=”window.gbar&&gbar.pw&&gbar.pw.hvr(this,google.time())”`
The sprite image Google uses for the +1 button is below:
Pretty neat, huh?
Oh goodness gracious, the animation is annoying. After hovering over one search result, it’s obvious how awful the animation is and I want to claw my eyes out with a rusty nail. I wanted to find a way to disable the animation. Continue reading “The Google +1 Sprite Animation”
Easily add TruliaMaps to your website!
Add a Trulia maps widget showing homes in your area, without touching any HTML or code. This plugin allows you to configure tons of options; check it out today!
`[trulia city=”Bethesda” state=”MD”]`
will show a map for Bethesda, MD real estate.
`[trulia zip=90210 rotate=10 size=panorama]`
will show a wide map of the 90210 real estate for sale, and will rotate showing listings every 10 seconds.
[trulia title=”Boston Real Estate” align=right city=Boston state=MA background=”#cccccc” color=”#333333″ size=large rotate=10 logo_color=gry] The following shortcode produces the map seen on the right:
`[trulia title=”Boston Real Estate” align=right city=Boston state=MA background=”#cccccc” color=”#333333″ size=large rotate=10]`
The plugin has shortcode support with the following setting options:
There’s been a lull here on the SEODenver.com website. That doesn’t mean I’ve been standing still. What have I been up to?
I’m going to tell you a bit about these projects and something I’ve learned from each of them. Continue reading “Recent Projects & Lessons Learned”
In developing the a website for professional genealogists, I was tasked with creating link directory functionality in WordPress. I didn’t want to install some big plugins; I wanted to use the Links Manager that’s built in to every WP install out of the box. There were two problems, however:
My client’s website will have over 20,000 links; having them all on one page was simply not an option.
I didn’t want to create a new Post Type or Taxonomy; Links are already the right tool for the job. I moved forward creating the custom solution, and am sharing the results of that development here. The result of the project was a successful deployment of a crazy amount of links (see an example on their Iowa genealogy resources page). Continue reading “Paginate Links in WordPress Link Manager”
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Bit.ly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and rightly so: it is stable, easy to use, and has pretty looking statistics. One thing Bit.ly does not do is export data. There is simple no other Bit.ly exporter out there.
The Bit.ly Exporter plugin allows you to export up to three years of daily click data for your links. This allows you to analyse click data like you always wanted to! All you need is WordPress. Continue reading “Export Bit.ly Link Data as CSV”
