Archive for Plugins

An alpha version of the new amr events plugin for wordpress is available.  The zip file will actually produce two plugins (one is an upgraded version of the “free” event listing plugin).  These files will be cleaned up and rationalised in the next upgrade.  I wanted to make a version available asap for testers. Try [...]

The User Template plugin which helps you simplify member admin screens is now available for download.  Access is for registered users who have purchased access to this post  or who have been upgraded for free . Notforprofits, and selected others, please register using the free option and then email me your username and the domain [...]

Given a date, get the next or previous Monday, or Tuesday etc from the given date. This is useful when working with ical recurring dates.  If the date given is already that day of week, it is returned as the result. For example to get the following Every 20th Monday of the year, forever: DTSTART;TZID=US-Eastern:19970519T090000 [...]

Problem with getting the day of week for old dates before 1760? See this.

How to remove columns for all your users automatically in wordpress list screens.

If you are using the amr-users plugin to provide a public user list or directory and you want to have the pagination working, there is a small bug when permalinks are used.  IE does not happen in admin. Note: if you have a short list you can simply set the rows per page to avoid [...]

This version has a bug fix that may affect reports that use data created by any plugins that store arrays in the usermeta.   Very other non-serious tweaks were made.  And a all-in-one background batch cache create option was added. So now you can push all those buttons at once! As always, it may take awhile [...]

Ability to Admin control Screen Options based upon User type

Version 2.3 has just been uploaded. It offers the following: Widget – the beginnings of a widget to display any user list you wish in your sidebar such as ‘top posters’, ‘top commenters’, longest members, newest members etc.  It is a “beginning”  as improvements in the mechanism and features is required for this to be [...]

Tips on debugging your setup of the personalisation plugin

A number of people using the amr-users plugin and who are Excel users, seem to need help when it comes to importing the csv file into excel.  Open Office and Google Docs users seem to be fine. As far as I can make out, this seems to be because: their default excel csv import settings [...]

The comments totals and potential link to comment/author archive in the user list plugin has temporarily been removed.  I was working with people who had  large numbers of users users and there are a number of problems with providing the comments totals and link to comment/author archive, and rather than provided a half baked solution, [...]

The shortcode any widget plugin can reference multiple instances of the same widget individually  by targeting the instances unique id.  If you use the general name without the id, it will list all widgets with that name. The trick is to be sure that you have the correct id’s, and the id names correct. For [...]

Register-plus is a very useful plugin.  However Dieter Eerens, and I have discovered a situation where it does not play nicely with my  user lists plugin.  (Well it also highlighted a bug in my plugin for users on php <5.3, so make sure you have plugin version 2.1 which gets around this!) What it does… [...]

Configurable User Reporting for large membership sites.

Don’t blame 2.9! A  site was hacked.  This was only detected because he had a funny admin screen so decided to do auto upgrade to 2.9 (possibly without backup!).  This appeared to cause his plugins to dissappear including the one that protected his content!    This may help others, as initial googling did not find direct [...]

Version 1.4.5  recently uploaded to wordpress has  two minor changes: For hasty configurers who do not configure the nice names for the list headings, the earlier version would fail on attempting to configure a list without first configuring nicenames.  1.4.5 will check and use default nicenames. For versions of wordpress < 2.8 (and note still [...]

A vertical use of the Breadcrumb widget A query was received from Kim for  http://metakosmia.dk, asking how to indent successive levels of the breadcrumb widget links.  This was not possible in version 1.1, so version 1.2 has been released with css classes added for each breadcrumb indicating it’s depth in the menu.  This css class [...]

Request for requirements for a search / filter function for member, subscriber, user lists

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