Plugins

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Website In A Weekend is working on several useful plugins to enhance your WordPress blogging experience. Here’s a list of what’s currently available, and what’s in the pipeline.

• hRecipe provides an easy and convenient way to format recipes for display in WordPress. The formatting is performed using specific CSS class names conforming to the hRecipe microformat. You can install hRecipe using the WordPress plugin finder. Here’s the hRecipe home page.
• Demo Plugin Suite: Website In A Weekend has developed several small plugins, some of which are described below, which belong to a collection useful for basic plugin programming.
• AWeber Super Simple: Here’s a pre-alpha of a plugin to handle registrations combining AWeber and WordPress blogs: AWeber Super Simple. Activate it to get an AWeber signup email sent to your newly registered WordPress user.

There’s a few more in the pipeline that will be very useful for beginning plugin authors. The plugin API has evolved somewhat over the years, and it’s possible to find a wide variety of techniques for accomplishing tasks such as plugin activation and deactivation. Each of these plugins are extremely small and stripped down to illustrate exactly how to implement one and only one capability. None of these are important enough to be hosted at WordPress, so they aren’t yet packaged for release. If you want one or more, let me know, I’ll package them up for downloading.

• Demo Plugin i18n: A very, very simple plugin showing how to set up for internationalizing your plugin. There is literally nothing here other than a simple admin page and a Spanish translation!

  I would be delighted to have some help with translations.

  Try it for yourself: download Demo Plugin i18n.

• Demo Options Plugin: Shows how to set up a very simple options page for your plugin.
• Demo Database Plugin: Shows how to set up and tear down a simple database table for your plugin.

  Try it for yourself: download Demo Plugin Database.

• Creative Commons license tag to drop in on a per-post basis. This one hasn’t quite lifted off yet. Encourage me!