Justin Tadlock's Members plugin has become pretty much a default piece of every project I do lately. The ability to fine grain user permissions is almost always a critical part of any business website built using WordPress. A typical set up might involve employees having low level access to backend functions, managers having greater abilities, [...]

I came across a problem today with a client site where I’m using Mailpress to handle both a newsletter and all of the default WordPress emails. Everything was working beautifully except for the lost password emails. If a user submitted the lost password form they got the email they were supposed to with the link [...]

Ran into a problem with Gravity Forms, IE8 and ajax form submission where it was kicking out an “error, object expected” every time. After many hours of digging through the code I figured out the issue. Short version is that the way it was written, when you first load a page with a form it [...]

If you’ve ever done a new install of WordPress and for whatever reason not gotten the initial email with the admin user name and password, you know it can be a real pain in the arse. I know people who have ended  up deleting the install and doing it over again thinking there was no [...]

*Note: Code revised Dec. 5, 2010 Mailpress is a great plugin that continues to develop into a more commercial grade product even though it is still completely free. While it isn’t as robust (yet) as PhpList or some of the other options out there, it does integrate entirely with WordPress and has some really great [...]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-query-posts-show-specific-id-doesnt-work?replies=8#post-1708609 Problem and my fix are documented there. In a nutshell, the plug-in won’t work correctly when you’re attempting to show a single post by ID #. Fix is to add in the following code at line 123: /*NCG edit */ if( $instance['post']) $args['p'] = $instance['post'];

Add an HTML field to your form. Insert the following code: <script src=”http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme/scripts/jquery.counter.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”>// <![CDATA[ jQuery(document).ready(function($q){ $q("#input_15_12").counter({type:'word', goal:'100'}); }); // ]]></script> Use view source when you’re looking at the form in a page to see what the id of the text area field you want to validate is and use that in the [...]

I’ve been using the very useful Gravity Forms (www.gravityforms.com) plug-in for a number of different projects. It does a lot of great stuff, but one thing it doesn’t do (at least not yet) is allow for ajax form submission. For some projects, that’s a bit of a drawback. After poking around looking for a solution, [...]

I’m running WordPress 3 with Domain Mapping on one installation. The domain mapping plugin lets you map sub-blogs (www.mysite.com/blogone and www.mysite.com/blogtwo) to unique URLs (www.mysite.com and www.myothersite.com). I recently discovered when I went to password protect a page on one of the sites that it totally failed. The password form would load, but when I [...]

I earlier posted about how to modify the layout of the excellent xHanch My Twitter plug in for WordPress (http://xhanch.com/wp-plugin-my-twitter/). Once I had the Twitter feed for that particular project looking the way I wanted, there was one last customization I wanted to make — a new header image for it. The xHanch plugin comes [...]