Comment Remix enhances your admin comment section, and introduces several post features.

Post Features

Reply, Quote, and Tags

Comment Remix takes your existing comment section and adds the following options:

• A ‘Reply’ link
• A ‘Quote’ link
• Tags

Here’s a quick screen of those in action:

If you click on the reply link, you’ll see something like this in the comment box:

The benefits of the ‘Reply’ option is that the original comment is linked to if others want to read the original comment.

The only issue I’ve found with the ‘Reply’ and ‘Quote’ options is that they are still available if comments are disabled on a post.

On the tags feature, if you click a tag on a comment, only comments with that associated tag are displayed. I’ve been debating with myself how useful this is, since it appears that tags only show up for the particular post I’m on. Also, there is no easy way to edit tags. You’ll have to edit the comment in order to edit the tags for that comment.

Trackback Options

One nice option that Comment Remix has (in the admin panels) is removal of Trackbacks. You’ll find similar functionality in the Comment Sorter plugin I wrote.

In addition to the removal of Trackbacks, the admin has the ability to automatically move Trackbacks to the end of the comment section.

Sort Options

Admin can also specify how the comments are displayed. Comments can be sorted (ascending or descending) by the comment date, or by the commenter’s name.

Other Post Options

Additional post options are the admin’s ability to:

• Disable the ‘Reply/Quote’ links
• Add/Disable tags
• Customize all text displayed.
• Change the number of tags displayed.

Admin Options

The meat of the Comment Remix features come in the admin panel.

Comments Panel Actions

With an interface very similar to Absolute Comments, the plugin gives you the ability to edit, ignore (explained in a minute), reply, quote, and view all comments for a post.

One thing I’d like to see here is better styling of the links.

Reply/Quote Pop-Ups

When clicking on the Reply/Quote actions, you see a pop-up window, which allows you to add your comment and submit.

I’m not quite sure why the author didn’t go with the ‘Thickbox.js’ file, but the pop-up he uses works pretty well.

Once you hit ‘Save Reply’, the new comment will show up at the top of the Comments panel.

In Need of Reply

One absolutely fantastic feature is called the ‘In Need of Reply’ panel.

What this panel shows you is all of the comments that haven’t been replied to.

Once you reply to a comment in this panel, the comment disappears since it is no longer in need of reply.

One feature that is desperately missing here is a ‘Mark All as Replied’, although you can “ignore” comments on an individual basis.

Conclusion

Comment Remix is a very nice plugin that combines a lot of features I’ve seen in other plugins. It’s always nice to have it all in one place, and the admin options (not shown in this review) are quite extensive.

The star feature is the ‘In Need of Reply’ panel, which will help busy blog authors figure out which comments haven’t been replied to.

Comment Remix is still in its early stages, but it’s off to a great start.

As a side note, Comment Remix is also part of the WeblogToolsCollection plugin competition. If you have a moment, head over to the Comment Remix post, cast a vote, and give your say.

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Some reader appreciation plugins offering direct benefits: Top Commentors or Last comments, or WP Ajax Edit Comments fall into this directly rewarding category.

Some other plugins offer indirect benefits, which are rather meant to help readers as bloggers, by offering them a small SEO help. This category includes the Do Follow and Comment Luv plugins, which are some of the “most hunted” and “most searched for” and which (especially the Do Follow) sometimes make people sign their comments with “purple lamp post” or “white beans soup with noodles”, or other thoroughly researched keywords.

Thanks to Stephen Cronin, the conversation between lamp posts, noodle soups and camping flashlights is coming to an end: The Keyword Luv plugin allows commenters to input both their name and their desired keywords, the backlink to their blog being anchored on the keywords, and not on the name, as it was before.

If you want to read a more detailed review of the Keyword Luv Wordpress plugin, you can visit InspiritBlog, or you can download KeywordLuv Plugin and offer your readers a nice treat.

Due to the fact that this plugin is valuable only if it is used on Do Follow blogs, you will need to install a Do Follow plugin in order to be sure it works smoothly.

If you have a Do Follow blog, I’m sure you won’t miss all the “items” which used to leave comments on your blog. You can now offer them a name.

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What it does is translates a comment like this:

Sue@TameBay

Into this:

Sue from TameBay

I pick on Sue simply because she leaves comments like that (nothing wrong with it in my opinion).

Theoretically, the plugin applies the correct weight to the keywords after the “@” symbol.

When the plugin is deactivated, everything is converted back to its “name@site” format.

There is a issue with Ajax Edit Comments, but only when editing the name portion, which hardly anybody does anyway.

Feel free to leave a comment below to try it. I’ll leave it installed for a week and see how it works out for you all.

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One of the greatest enablers of community is having comments enabled and allowing the reader to give feedback and add to the conversation.

However, since spam is a constant problem with comments, bloggers take measures to limit the amount of spam being received on blogs. Some bloggers use CAPTCHAs, and some use plugins such as Akismet or Bad Behavior.

The ongoing struggle with spam is why I stated that spam is a reader’s problem too. Their comment may be accidentally marked as spam, or the comment may be lost due to some ill-advised spam-blocking attempt.

So when I saw yet another anti-spam plugin for WordPress, I was extremely skeptical. Especially since this plugin works right out of the box with absolutely no configuration.

To illustrate the ease of installation, here are the install directions for WP-SpamFree:

Installation Instructions

1. After downloading, unzip file and upload the enclosed ‘wp-spamfree’ directory to your WordPress plugins directory: ‘/wp-content/plugins/’.
2. As always, activate the plugin on your WordPress plugins page.

You’re done! Sit back and see what it feels like to blog without comment spam!

And how have we managed here at the Reader Appreciation Project? The only spam we have received has been that annoying Trackback spam (only a few spam messages a day compared to hundreds). And readers don’t have to fill out a CAPTCHA and I don’t have to worry about them being blocked as with some other WordPress anti-spam tools.

I highly recommend downloading and installing WP-SpamFree. It’s a great and unobtrusive plugin to weed out almost all of your spam without imposing spam’s evil effects on your readers.

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It feels good to see that people remember you, doesn’t it? But what if you knew this is part of an automatic recognition process? Would it still be enjoyable to you?

Let me tell you this story: a couple of months ago, I’ve discovered an interesting blog, Revellian.com, a mixture of poetry, philosophy, spooky stories and practical blogging advice which can easily get you addicted to it. After a while, I remembered about my discovery, and visited Revellian for the second time. And guess what? In the sidebar, there was a personal message for me: “Welcome back, Simonne…” and my MyBlogLog avatar.

Although I was sure that must be a plugin, I couldn’t stop myself from noticing the positive emotion triggered by that warm welcome. Suddenly, Bobby Revell’s blog became familiar, and made me subscribe and comment, because I felt like somehow I already belonged to that community.

For those of you who want to know the secret of making your blogs more familiar to your readers, find out that it is called The Welcome Plugin, and it can welcome your visitors by name, in these cases:

* If they’ve already left a comment they should keep a little cookie on their computer with their name/email/website. These information help determining the name and avatar (first MBL, if not found, gravatar, or the default image)
* If the visitor is a registered user: in the 99% of the cases this will happen for the admin only, if a WP installation has got only one user. Be sure to set the “email” and “website” fields of your profile, to ensure avatars are shown correctly.
* If they’re MBL users, and you too: only if you display the MyBlogLog graphical widget on your blog, the plugin with a script (you have to activate it below) can recognize MBL users and welcome them.

What do you think? Will your readers love you more, if you welcome them back to your blog?

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I’ve reviewed a similar plugin in the past called Better Comments Manager, but Absolute Comments doesn’t add an extra panel. You can access everything through the familiar Comments admin panel.

The Plugin In Use

From within the Comments sub-panel, I look at my recent comments. I see someone has responded to a recent post I wrote.

A sample comment

Seeing that the comment needs a reply, I hit the spiffy “Reply” button, which displays a reply box instantaneously. I type in my reply and hit “Reply to Comment.” If I had some threaded comments type plugin, I could have hit “Thread Reply” instead.

Me replying to a comment

Once I hit “Reply to Comment”, the new comment is moved to the top. It’s as easy as that.

My reply

Other Features Worth Mentioning

1. The plugin is highly customizable. If you are comfortable editing PHP code, you can change the width of the text editor, the reply prefill, and numerous other options.
2. Support for threaded comments
3. Ajax Edit Comments is compatible. Okay, so this isn’t an advertised feature, but you can reply to and edit comments all in one place.
4. Impressive localization. Numerous languages are already supported.
5. Reply-to in e-mail notifications. If you receive e-mail notifications on e-mails, a reply-to link is included.

Conclusion

I highly recommend Absolute Comments for every WordPress blog (versions 2.2 or higher) to make replying to comments in the admin panel a snap. And replying to comments is an excellent way to show reader appreciation.

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One of the many tasks was making sure that I didn’t break people’s bookmarks. After browsing WordPress Extend, I came across a great WordPress plugin called WP Redirection.

You see, I was used to doing it the old and boring way: using.htaccess. However, this plugin actually made setting up redirects a breeze.

Installation

Installation was as simple as uploading the plugin file and hitting activate. It can’t get any more easier than that.

Where to Find the Options

The options are hidden away under the “Manage” tab, but once you think about it, the location is a good fit for how the plugin operates.

Inputting the Redirects

Putting the redirects into place involved filling out a form with the source location and the target location. And adding the URL is a snap. It’s all done via AJAX, so it’s very quick.

The Redirects After Adding

Some smarts are built in so that if you enter a full path for the source location, the plugin will trim it down for .htaccess goodness.

Once again, all redirects are applied via AJAX, so adding in redirects is fast and easy.

And Editing a Redirect is Simple Too

You can also edit and save existing redirects via AJAX as well. I think I had to pinch myself a few times to realize that yes, there is a plugin that awesome.

Conclusion

In short, I highly recommend trying out the WP Redirection plugin.

It’ll save you a load of time, you don’t have to edit the .htaccess file, and your readers are sent to the right place. What can get better than that?

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Typically, the author who writes the post only receives the comment notification e-mail. However, there have been many instances where one of the authors doesn’t respond to a reader either because the e-mail wasn’t sent, or the e-mail was accidentally overlooked.

Bes and I realized this problem early on, but there wasn’t much we could do. We experimented with setting up an admin e-mail and have the e-mail forwarded on to both of us. This worked only sometimes.

This weekend I discovered a WordPress plugin called Comment Notifier. What comment notifier allows you to do is specify which e-mail addresses will receive an e-mail anytime somebody leaves a comment. This is a dream come true plugin for multi-author blogs where authors like to be kept in the loop.

The Comment Notifier Plugin

Adding a new e-mail address to Comment Notifier is a Snap

Plugin Benefits

We’ve had the plugin installed here for about four days now, and I can immediately see the reader benefits. Now all of the authors will be notified of comments, and comment replies.

Here’s a short list of the benefits of having this WordPress plugin.

• All blog authors are notified of any comments and replies.
• Blog authors are kept in the loop of the blog’s happenings.
• Readers theoretically get more attention since their comment is being seen by all authors.
• One author can pick up another author’s slack if one happens to be away.
• Outsiders can receive notifications as well.

Plugin Drawbacks

One of the main drawbacks I noticed right away is the increase in e-mails. If you happen to subscribe to a post as an author, you’ll get as many as two e-mails per comment (depending on the post). If you are the author of the post, you’ll also get two e-mails per comment.

With Google Mail, this is almost a non-issue, but I can see how the substantial increase in e-mails can be overwhelming to some.

Conclusion

If you have a multi-author blog, this plugin is essential to have. It keeps all of the authors in the loop as far as comments go. The plugin is very flexible and allows the addition or deletion of as many e-mail addresses as necessary.

Even if you don’t have a multi-author blog, you may be in a situation where you want an outsider to be kept in the loop of blog comments, or perhaps have comment e-mails sent to alternate e-mail addresses.

Please visit the Comment Notifier plugin page if you are interested in having this plugin on your WordPress blog.

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This plugin enables bloggers who wish to use a ‘page’ as the homepage of a WordPress blog. For more information on pages, visit the BlogHerald’s article on making any page the homepage. Also visit my article on using the “more” tag on a WordPress page.

Please download WP From the Vault 1.0

Screenshots

From the Vault Admin Panel

From the Vault in Use

Installation

Download and extract the zip file. Copy the ‘raproject_vault’ into your WordPress plugins directory. From the WordPress admin panel, add in a post ID you would like to spotlight.

Plugin Use

After setting a post ID in the admin panel, dive into a post’s or page’s code and add this in:

<?php
global $rap_vault;
if (!empty($rap_vault)) {
	$vault = $rap_vault->getPostID();
}
<?php query_posts("showposts=1&p=$vault"); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- your post code here -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
?>

In the part where it says <!– your post code here –>, it should be noted that your code to display your post should go in that portion. For example, here is a portion of code to display a post in the default WordPress theme:

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

	<div class="entry">
		<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
	</div>

	<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments &#187;', '1 Comment &#187;', '% Comments &#187;'); ?></p>
</div>

Support

This plugin, like all plugins on this site, are provided as-is. However, I will try to help you if you need assistance. Please send an email or leave a comment.

This plugin was originally written to support a feature on this site, but I thought I’d release it publicly in case others wanted similar functionality.

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This WordPress plugin allows you to reply to a comment through the admin panel without actually having to go a post.

The Better Comments Manager Sub-Panel

The Better Comments Manager Sub-Panel

Once you have installed the plugin, go to the Comments panel and there you’ll find the Better Comments Manager sub-panel. There you can reply to comments, or even view all the comments for a particular post.

The only thing I don’t like about the plugin’s admin panel setup currently is that I have to go to the Comments panel, and then go to sub-panel. I think this plugin is good enough that it can have its own dedicated spot as a main admin panel.

The Reply Box

Better Comments Manager Reply Box

Once you have found a comment to reply to, simply click on the “Reply” button. Once “Reply” has been clicked, a box will show up that you can type your comment in. When you are finished, simply hit “Save Reply.”

The Loading Screen

Better Comments Manager Loading Screen

Better Comments Manager does all the replying via Ajax. No new screen is loaded, so everything is done very fast.

The New Comment

Better Comments Manager - New Comment Added

Better Comments Manager places the new comment on the top of the list. One annoying thing about this is that the plugin currently scrolls you to the new comment. I personally do not like this feature, so I went into the code and took it out.

Conclusion

Better Comments Manager is a great plugin and will save a lot of time. My wish is that the “auto-scrolling” is taken out and that the plugin is a main admin panel instead of a sub-panel.

Thank you for reading.

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What the Reader Sees

What a reader will see when you are performing maintenance

Features

• Can activate/deactive plugin in the admin panel.
• Can alert users when the site might be back up.
• Admins can still see the site.
• You can specify a custom message.
• You can specify which parts of the site can still work.

Admin Area

Various admin options

Conclusion

The Maintenance Mode plugin is a must-have plugin for those that want to alert users about maintenance.

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For a demonstration, please check out the videos below:

Demo

Several demo videos can be found here.

Download

Please download the file WP Ajax Edit Comments v1.1.4.3.

For previous versions, please check out the previous versions of Ajax Edit Comments.

If you are using this plugin for the first time or upgrading, please be sure to test out various characters unique to your blog. This is especially for those using non-English languages. This plugin needs to also have mb_convert_encoding enabled. Version 1.13 has an option in the admin panel to disable this, but you still need to test various characters.

Admin Features

• Admin and Users Panel Options
• Can edit all comments inline in posts.
• Can delete and mark as spam from a post.
• Can edit inline in the Comments admin panel.
• Can edit inline in the Akismet Spam admin subpage.
• Can edit inline in the moderation subpage.
• Can disable inline editing in posts.
• Various admin options including.
  • Ability to set comment time.
  • Can enable or disable a countdown timer.
  • Can receive e-mails when a non-admin edits a comment.
  • Can enable edited comments to be checked with Akismet.
  • And more…
• Various admin user options including.
  • Can turn off comment editing in the Admin panel.
  • Can turn off inline editing.
  • And more…
• Absolutely no theme or file manipulation needed. Works completely out of the box.

User Features

• Edit comments inline without page reloads.
• Users without JavaScript disabled will see a regular comment page.
• Has a countdown timer to show how long a comment has left to load.

Plugin Features

• Utilizes the jQuery library.
• Comment editing times out after 15 seconds.
• Better error handling.
• Graceful deletion for compatible themes.
• A hook for other plugin authors to tap into.
• Compatible with many plugins, including Akismet, WP Cache, Better Comments Manager, WP Grins, TinyMCEComments, and many more.

Language Features

A lot of effort has gone into translating Ajax Edit Comments into multiple languages. The following languages are available. A big “thank you” goes out to each of the translators who have contributed and/or continue to contribute a translation.

• Available in Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

The following pages have been created to provide a translation of Ajax Edit Comments:

• French (Lise)
• German (David May)
• Romanian (Madalin)

If you are interested in providing a translation, please contact me (Ronald).

Screenshots

Comment Editing - Admins

A comment the admin’s cursor is hovering over.

A comment that can be edited.

You can also edit author details

You can delete and mark comments as spam from a post.

A deleted comment. Sorry Mark, you had it coming.

Comment Editing - Users

User’s can edit their own comments for a time specified by admin.

Admin Panel

The Admin panel. Click the image for a larger view.

User’s Panel

A user’s panel where other admins can adjust settings. Click the image for a larger view.

Installation

1. Just unzip and upload the “wp-ajax-edit-comments” folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Customize the CSS in the ‘wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/css/editComments.css’ file.

Usage

For admin…

Simply hover over a comment in a post and click. The comment will load, and from there you can edit the comment. If you click “Save” without editing, an error will result. This is normal since the comment hasn’t been changed.

You may also delete a comment or mark as spam from a post as well. If your theme is compatible, a short deletion animation will show showing that the deletion was successful. If your theme isn’t compatible, the deletion will be successful, but no visual clue will be shown. If the deletion or spam marking is unsuccessful, an alert box will display.

You can edit global admin options by using the Options->Ajax Edit Comments panel. If you can configure individual admin options in the Users->Ajax Edit Comments panel.

For non-admin users…

If you are a user, leave a comment. You may edit for a specified amount of time (set by admin). If your comment is in moderation and you decide to edit, your comment will disappear from the page on the next refresh. If the admin has the option enabled, your comment will be re-checked for spam.

Customization

You can adjust the appearance or color of the highlight and user messages by editing the supplied css file called “editComments.css”. This file should be in your 'wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/css/' directory.

You can also customize other various options by digging through the code, but such changes are not encouraged or supported. Use the admin panels.

Special Thanks

An extra special thanks goes out to Vivien from Inspiration Bit. Without her, this plugin release wouldn’t have been possible. Brett Terpstra from Circle Six Design helped fix a rather major bug as well during testing. Thank you Brett.

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Bugs/Support/Feature Requests

This plugin is provided as is, but I will try to answer most of your questions in the comments. Please open up a support ticket in the WordPress Support Forums and comment here with a link to the thread.

Several users have had character encoding issues. Ideally all blogs and backends would be in UTF-8. With v1.1.1.0, hopefully all character issues have been resolved, but this may be a little unrealistic. I will try to help people out on a case-by-case basis for non-UTF-8 blogs, but having a character encoding different from UTF-8 seems to cause a lot of issues. If you do install this plugin on a non-UTF-8 blog, make sure to throughly test out the plugin on various characters.

I’ve had reports that this plugin will not work with PHP 4.3.7 or the Konqueror web browser. I am currently not able to test the plugin using that PHP version or the web browser. If anybody has access to test and can offer suggestions as to what might be wrong, it would be much appreciated.

Another thing to note is that if you edit a comment/author details and save without changing anything, an error will result. This is not a bug. This is just WordPress being smart enough to know that nothing has changed when updating the database.

Incompatible Plugins

The following plugins cause issues with WP Ajax Edit Comments

• The Comment Luv Plugin
• Any plugin that posts comments via Ajax and doesn’t require a page reload. An example plugin is JQuery Ajax Comments.
• Any plugin that loads jQuery improperly without queuing it with WordPress.
• WP PostRatings on ISO-8859-1 blogs. Characters load and save incorrectly.
• Google Ajax Search

Since the plugin requires JavaScript and the DOM (Document Object Model), Ajax-type posted comments will not be editable until the user makes a refresh. Future versions may allow hooks for other plugin authors to tap into, but this plugin is so early in its release that this isn’t a possibility quite yet. For now, those that allow Ajax-type posted comments will only allow the comments to be edited as admin.

Change log

• v1.1.4.3 Released on 02/08/2008
  • Bug fix: Certain characters were getting stripped out. Notably the “+”character.
  • Bug fix: Some admin couldn’t edit. Permissions were revised.
  • Greek language was added. Thanks Alexander Kanakaris
• v1.1.4 Released on 01/19/2008
  • Bug fix: Added mb_convert_encoding detection. This should resolve the error messages several have received. Please be sure to test characters thoroughly.
  • Bug fix: Round trip area when adding HTML to comments.
  • Bug fix: Caching issue when saving the comment to the database.
  • Bug fix: Logged in users could see the Edit links.
  • Feature Addition: Admin can de-spam comments in Akismet sub-panel without a form submission.
  • Language Updates: Updated French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, and Russian files. More to come.
• v1.1.3 Released on 01/06/2008
  • Added option to disable mb_convert_encoding in the admin panel. This was due to the numerous hosts that do not have this installed. Users should use caution and test various characters.
  • Fixed an DIV tag that was closed improper (Thanks Xeno Philia).
• v1.1.2.5 Released on 12/15/2007
  • Added page detection for incompatibility issues with the Navigation List plugin.
• v1.1.2.1 Released on 11/27/2007
  • Added Italian Language file. Thanks Piplos
  • Added Russian Language file. Thanks Sergey.
• v1.1.2 Released on 11/12/2007
  • Re-wrote char handling. Please be sure to test this plugin thoroughly on various characters if using unique characters on your blog.
  • Added French language file. Thanks Lise.
  • Added Polish language file. Thanks Maclej
• v1.1.1.4 Released on 10/29/2007
  • Added Romanian language file. Thanks Tache Ionut Madalin
• v1.1.1.3 Released on 10/20/2007
  • Added updated German and Spanish language files. Thanks iKArus and Adrián
• v1.1.1.2 Released on 08/18/2007
  • Bug fix. Admin were able to edit, but non-admin couldn’t. This was caused by having WordPress installed in a sub-domain and/or subdirectory and dealt with domain and path issues regarding cookies. Thanks Pelf.
  • Bug fix. Fixed more charset issues. Chinese characters were being interpreted incorrectly in UTF-8. Thanks Johnson.Wang.
• v1.1.1.0 Released on 08/10/2007
  • Bug fix. Admin were able to edit, but non-admin couldn’t. This was caused by the timer offset in the WordPress admin panel. Thanks Mo.
  • Bug fix. MySQL errors resulted in the comment unable to save. This was caused my blogs and MySQL database not in UTF-8. Thanks Louis.
  • Bug fix. Some characters were being screwed up when saving to the WordPress database. This issue was caused by non-UTF-8 back-ends. Thanks David.
  • Bug fix. The blog would be inoperable in Internet Explorer due to multiple session headings being called. Thanks Matt.
• v1.1.0.6 Release Updated on 07/22/2007
  • Added German language file (Thanks David).
• v1.1.0.6 Released on 07/14/2007
  • Admin can now delete security keys stored in custom fields table.
  • A language file is now included that can be translated. Chinese is currently available in the official version (Thanks Nicky).
• v1.1.0.1 Released on 06/08/2007
  • Complete JavaScript overhaul. Ported over to jQuery.
  • Admin can now disable inline edits.
  • Numerous CSS and plugin bug fixes.
  • Improved security.
  • Numerous admin and user-panel additions.
  • Added timer for non-admin users.
  • Better error handling and error correction.
  • Timeout feature when editing the comment.
  • Edited comments are re-checked for spam if Akismet is installed.
  • Admin can now edit, delete, and mark as spam from a post.
  • And lots more…
  • Thank you to the testers: Ben, Bes, Gene, Helen, Scott, Simonne, and Vivien. If I missed you, please let me know about it.
• v1.065 Released on 05/23/2007
  • Plugged a hole in a somewhat major security exploit. Please upgrade to this version ASAP. (Thanks Frédéric)
• v1.061 Released on 04/18/2007
  • Slight bug fix. Turning off comments in the Admin panel turned off comments for Admin on regular posts. This issue has been resolved.
• v1.06 Released on 04/16/2007
  • Plugin now allows comment editing in the Admin panel. This can be turned off in Users -> Ajax Edit Comments (Thanks Bes).
• v1.042 Released on 04/14/2007
  • Fixed minor issue with page validation. (Thanks John and Nicky.)
• v1.041 Released on 04/13/2007
  • Made plugin compatible with WP-Cache (Thanks Patrick)
  • Fixed ampersand issue.
  • Fixed contraction bug. (Thanks Kirk and Luis)
• v1.021 Released on 04/07/2007
  • Allowed comment editing on pages.
• v1.02 Released on 04/07/2007
  • Fixed a bug where the plugin wouldn’t work if the blog URL and the install URL weren’t the same. (Thanks Ben).
• v1.01 Released on 04/06/2007
  • Fixed character encoding bugs. (Thanks Koz)
  • Made an error result when a comment or author is empty. (Thanks Vivien)
• v1.00 Released on 04/05/2007

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I am disgusted. There are too many plugins for WordPress out there that do something. I am surprised nobody has released a plugin that does absolutely nothing. So here is my contribution to the WordPress community: a plugin that does nothing.

Download

Please download WP Do Nothing v0.23 beta

Installation

Simply unzip the file and copy to your plugin directory. Activate the plugin and be at rest that you have a plugin that does absolutely nothing.

Change Log

• v0.23b - First public release

  Corrected a few errors that caused the plugin to actually do stuff.

Bugs?

If this plugin behaves in a manner other than intended (such as actually doing something), please report it here.

By the way, April fools.

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For working examples, please see the following pages:

• Reader Appreciation Project Sitemap
• Ronalfy.com Sitemap
• Books Love Me Sitemap
• Untwisted Vortex Extended Categories

Here is a screenshot as well.

Download

Please download the file WP Categories and Posts v1.0.

Installation

Installation is simple. Just unzip into your plugins folder and activate the plugin. From there, you may call the function ronalfy_list_categories_and_posts() from within your WordPress page.

An example page template called sitemap.php is included in the zip file. You can copy this file into your themes directory and use it as a page template for your sitemap if you wish.

Usage

The function by itself will return the categories and posts. It will accept most of the same arguments as wp_list_categories, but not all of them. One argument that I noticed that didn’t work was showcount.

Support

This plugin is provided as is, but I will try to answer most of your questions in the comments. Thank you.

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