As I had mentioned,I was planning to release another updated version of WP NicEdit,but it has been delayed because of some issues.My apologies for that.

When you use Wp NicEdit,It makes the comment area a rich text editor.

Now the issue is ,when a user is not logged in or has no capability(as in wp terms) to write html,It will not save the comment as rich comment.Reason,wordpress removes all the formatting using the kses filter.

My current experiment has not been successful in removing the kses filter for wordpress and because of time lack ,I could not do more experiments.If you know a way,In which we can remove the kses filter for comment,or allow html comments(so wordpress does not strips the tags),Please let me know.All the help is appreciated.Also,I will give you a credit link in my next release post of wp NicEdit.So pleasemIf you have any idea about allowing HTMl in comments,please let me know.

Thanks

Brajesh

If you are using a custom theme(not the default theme which ships with wordpress),and your theme has some custom Page templates,there are possibilities,you might have already noticed this unwanted behavior.

Wordpress 2.7 does not show your custom Page templates by default on your page edit/create screen.The Page templates working before may become inaccessible now,in your page edit window.

I just looked around,and wondered ,then I found something like very wiered solution.

If you swith to the default wordpress theme,and then switch back your theme,now if you go to edit/create page,the page templates become accessible.That’s not the expected behavior,but any how,Thank God!,It’s working seamlessly after that.

If you have also found the same issue,and found some better solution,please consider mentioning using the below comment form.

brajesh

You will love to see the back end of wordpress 2.7 ,It’s very clean and has got so many features.

I just upgraded to wp2.7 today and now,geeky talks is running on wordpress 2.7

To my rescue came the automatic upgrade plugin(which will be come obsolete,because now wordpress2.7 core contains the automatic upgrade functionality).bye bye my beloved Automatic Upgrade plugin and welcome wordpress 2.7.

Btw there are some good news too.I developed two plugins for wordpress Mu,one allow users to choose their password at the time of registration and another one restricts how many blogs a registered user can create.I will be posting the plugins and the updates soon.

First of all,my apologies to all those who commented on the blog and I could not reply them earlier.I am going to reply you quickly now.

Now,here are the updates and future plans about the two of my released plugins.Thank you very much miguel for your patience.I have not abandoned the plan for wp-Unique-article-header-image to port to PHP4.

Here are the updates which will be coming in the next version of the wp-unique-article-header-image

1.Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5 both(currently only with PHP5)

2.User can choose the directory from admin end where the images(header-images) nare stored.

3.Option to delete the image from admin end(a remove link below the header selection on post edit window)

4.the images,can be viewed and modified from wordpress media manager ,as it will be stored as standard image attachment with post.

and many more,Please remind me ,if I am missing some updates.

The next version of wp-unique-article-header-image which is version 1.1 will be available around 20th of dec 2008(please forgive me for the delays,because I am currently  I don’t have time to update it because of my regular works).

For wp-NicEdit

The next Version i.e. wp Nic Edit 1.1 will resolve some of the issues mentioned by our beloved users.Thank you everyone for taking time and posting the details of all the issues.

The next version will address following issues

1.All users can post Rich comment(not only the logged users as done currently)

2.It will be compatible with wordpress 2.7(the major release of wordpress coming very soon)

3.For the compatibility issue with other comment  preview plugin-It is redundant,as you can see what you type,so is it really required.Please correct me if I am wrong.

4.For compatibility with other plugins,specially threaded comment(which is also going to be an inbuilt functionality in wp 2.7),I am trying my best and will post the update soon.

The next release of wp-nicedit will be around 15th dec.

Please post any issues you have found, or you want to improve in my plugins,I will certainly incorporate if feasible.

This time I am back again with another plugin “WP-NicEdit”.It’s is a wysiwyg type rich text editor for comments section.

As you may see from the original website of NicEdit(by Brian Kirchoff) http://nicedit.com,He has released a newer version of NicEdit,which has a better well defined API for  extending it.

So I integrated it again to wordpress and that too much more easier than the previous version.

Current features include

1.wysiwyg editor(Choose whether you want default or you want a full panel from admin->settings->Wp NicEdit Settings page.

Settings for Wp-NicEdit

2.It allows you to do copy paste using keyboard shortcuts(not available in the older version).

For general information about the wp-nicedit ,please visit my post here http://geekytalks.com/2008/07/wp-nicedit-a-wysiwyg-comment-editor-for-wordpress.html.There you will find the help on installation.Or use readme.txt included as a guide.

The current version of wp-NicEdit allows you to choose either the editor in default mode or in Extended mode from admin->settings->Wp NicEdit settings page.

Download the plugin from official plugin directory of wordpress here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-nicedit

here are some more screenshots of the nic edit.

Default mode enabled

Extended mode enabled

Please see the comment area of this page for a real world view of Wp NicEdit(note:I have enabled default mode)

if you liked it or  you have any issue,please drop a message here ,I will help you in all possible ways and love to see your messages here.

Today,I am here to let you know,my another plugin “wp NicEdit” which integrates Bryn Kirchoffs light weight rich text editor to wordpress comment,got approval from wordpress.org.

It will be hosted soon on wordpress.org/extend/plugins(atleast as soon as I update the svn).I am  waiting and not uploading old version,because a new version of the plugin is about to finish.It will have several options from backend.

As another note,The wp unique article header image plugin ,will be available as compatible with PHP4 in it’s next version 1.1 ,currently it supports only PHP5.

Bye the way,my list of plugin queue is getting longer day by day,let me tell you some of the upcoming plugins from my selves are

1.Thumbnailed recent posts-Feature for selecting recent posts from only selected categories or all categories,It searches for the first image in the post/page, if found,creates a thumbnail,or if not found  allows you to use a default image with post as thumbnail.

2.GT Recent Posts advanced:-To show a list of Recent posts,form selected categories or simply from all categories.

3.wp-popular-posts-:You can show a list of most popular posts in over all,sort the list by date ,time,year,categories.It can be used for showing most popular reviews of products and so.The popularity is counted by the number of times a post is visited.

…and some more.

Please leave a comment,if you want your ideas to be converted to wordpress plugin or need any help on wordpress.I will love to assist you.

Have a great Day.

Brajesh

• You wanted to show unique header image on each single article page of your wordpress(or may be on some of the single article pages)
• You wanted to have a unique background image for each of your single article page(or may be just on some of them)

If your answer is yes,Then this plugin is for you.It allows you to upload an image using the wordpress new post/edit post/page window.It adds a file uploading button just below the title of the post as shown below

New Post window

Now select an Image and when you click publish/save the default image is changed with the current image.

Browse Header Image to upload

Once you click save/publish,Go to manage->posts->your post and click to edit.you will see that the default image is changed with the new image uploaded.

Post edit window

How to use

For your use there is a method gt_get_image_url(), it returns unique image associated with each post.you may use it in any way you want.here is an example,how I modified the default theme on the demo server to show unique header images on each post.

Now,let us edit our themes header.php to make use of unique header on each of the page.we add following snippet of code to our header .php

Code snippet to be modified

[Please note this code shown here, is for the default theme Kuberick,which comes with wordpress,depending upon your theme and header you may need to use custom css here]

See the live demo here [Click on the articles on the demo site to see the use of unique header thing)

NOTE:It seems ,someone has deleted all the posts from the demo site,as i mistakenly provided the test user rights to edit/delete posts.well,I will be correcting my mistake tomorrow.For the time being,I encourage you to login and try uploading some image of your choice on the demo site and looking at it in action.

http://plugins.wpdemos.com/gt-unique-header-image/

Do you want to try it yourself,well use following credentials

http://plugins.wpdemos.com/gt-unique-header-image/wp-admin/

User: test

Password: test

Try,posting some new posts with any image of your choice and then click to view the page.
ok,so you need a download link now.Here goes the download link
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-unique-article-header-image.zip

get_user_by_email($email)

Description

It is one of the important but not documented method on codex(as of now),It provides same information as the get_userdata(),get_userdatabylogin(), except the fact that it takes the email address of registered user(e.g. admin@geekytalks.com as an argument rather than the ID/username of user).It returns an object with the information pertaining to the user whose login name is passed to it. Properties map directly to wp_users table in the database.

Usage

The call to get_user_by_email() returns the user’s data, where it can be retrieved using member variables.

<?php
$user_info=get_user_by_email(get_option('admin_email));
echo ('Username:'.$user_info->user_login . '\n');
      echo('User level: ' . $user_info->user_level . '\n');
      echo('User ID: ' . $user_info->ID . '\n');
?>

Username: admin
User level: 10
User ID: 1

Accessing Usermeta Data

<?php
$user_info=get_user_by_email(get_option('admin_email));
echo ($user_info->last_name .  ", " . $user_info->first_name . "\n");
?>

Singh,Brajesh

Parameters

$email

(String) (required) The email address(of registered user) of the user whose data should be retrieved.

Default: None

Values in users & user_meta table

Here are the values in the users table you can access via this function:

users

• ID
• user_login
• user_pass
• user_nicename
• user_email
• user_url
• user_registered
• user_activation_key
• user_status
• display_name

useful in user_meta

• first_name
• last_name
• nickname
• user_level
• admin_color (Theme of your admin page. Default is fresh.)
• closedpostboxes_page
• nickname
• primary_blog
• rich_editing
• source_domain
• It works in the same manner as get_userdata() ,except that the argument passed in get_userdata() is an integer(The ID of User),while In the case of get_userdatabylogin() ,the argument passed is string(The Login name e.g. “admin”)

See as a reference :http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

Description

It is one of the important but not documented method on codex(as of now),It provides same information as the get_userdata() except the fact that it takes the login name(e.g. “admin” as an argument rather than the ID of user).It returns an object with the information pertaining to the user whose login name is passed to it. Properties map directly to wp_users table in the database.

Usage

The call to get_userdatabylogin() returns the user’s data, where it can be retrieved using member variables.

<?php $user_info=get_userdatabylogin("admin");
echo ('Username:',$user_info->user_login . '\n');
      echo('User level: ' . $user_info->user_level . '\n');
      echo('User ID: ' . $user_info->ID . '\n');
?>

Username: admin
User level: 10
User ID: 1

Accessing Usermeta Data

<?php $user_info=get_userdatabylogin("admin");
echo ($user_info->last_name .  ", " . $user_info->first_name . "\n");
?>

Singh,Brajesh

Parameters

$login_id

(String) (required) The Login_name(Login Id) of the user whose data should be retrieved.

Default: None

Values in users & user_meta table

Here are the values in the users table you can access via this function:

users

• ID
• user_login
• user_pass
• user_nicename
• user_email
• user_url
• user_registered
• user_activation_key
• user_status
• display_name

useful in user_meta

• first_name
• last_name
• nickname
• user_level
• admin_color (Theme of your admin page. Default is fresh.)
• closedpostboxes_page
• nickname
• primary_blog
• rich_editing
• source_domain
• It works in the same manner as get_userdata() ,except that the argument passed in get_userdata() is an integer(The ID of User),while In the case of get_userdatabylogin() ,the argument passed is string(The Login name e.g. “admin”)

See as a reference :http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

It has inbuilt facilities for importing my firefox bookmarks,history,passwords etc.Ahh..I am waiting to see the first site of this Google browser.Thank God,It started now.Wow,what a clean interface.It is so impressively thin,I am really starting loving it from the first start up only.

have a look how it looks like

Google Chrome

Good, so Google is really concerned about it.It seems the world is turning to blue again[:D],It’s fist browser,which has such a sleek look(though I am a fan of firefox,for its large number of extensions and developers support).

Some Features of Chrome

• It is visually pleasing,something your eye will love to browse with
• It has incognito mode(.Do you know what incognito mode is,well I am posting an image for details),In incognito mode it does not remember browsing history and cookies etc.
• It Is based on WebKit rendering engine,the same engine being used by safari 3.X
• It uses v8 javascript engine(also by google),one of the fastest javascript engine
• It is made from scratch ,keeping in mind the current web architecture,so hopefully it will perform better
• It uses the location bar for searching and url both, you can type something in the location bar and press enter to search it on google.

Here are some of the screenshot,to show some of the features of this browser

Incognito Mode

Incognito mode

Home page,It contains most visited,recently browsed,bookmarked sites,good..that’s really good idea,a little bit inspired from opera(speed dial)

Home Page

Here is how the history page looks(very nicely done!)

History Page

The customizations are quiet easy and pretty straight forward.first times,it seems I am working some something really cool!.

Btw,There are some disadvantages too

1. It forks a new process for each tab,so if you have 6 tabs open you will see 7 or more chrome.exe running.
   

   Multiple instances of chrome.exe

You see the four chrome.exe running,while I had only 3 tabs open at that time.

2.It’s more memory intensive(at least as I see on my system)

But still overall,I liked the way it’s looking and working(seems to be fast )

to download Google Chrome browser ,use the following link http://tools.google.com/chrome/