Posts Tagged ‘wordpress plugins’

Wp Unique Article Header Image Plugin for Wordpress

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

hi all.here I am back with another brand new plugin to enhance your blog.Ok,If you have ever thought of the following,then this plugin is for you.

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

Browse Header Image to upload
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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
edit-screen-gt-unique-header

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

Code snippet to be modified

[Please not this 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


WP NIcEdit-A WYSIWYG comment editor for wordpress

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

“UPDATE:The version 1.0 of the plugin is available on wordpress,please use following link to download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-nicedit/

and go to this page for updated information on the plugin http://geekytalks.com/2008/11/wp-nicedit-updated-version-10-released.html

Well,After working for the last 30 minutes,finally I am done with the plugin.WP NicEdit is a wordpress plugin which integrates Brian Kirchoff’s Nic Edit(a javascript based rich text editor) to wordpress comments area making it visully pleasing and enhancing its capability.it makes the Comments section feature rich.Once you Install this plugin you(Your visitors) get a visual editor for posting their comments.So it’s pleasing to have all this.

To See a demo, please look at the comment section of this page.still I am posting one of the pic to show how it looks like.

NicEditor How it Looks Like:–well here is a pic to depict how it looks like….

Nic Editor

Now how it looks when integrated to the Comments..Good question…

Integrated to comments

Now you Can choose the font-family,size,formatting and various other options while writing comments..wow..sounds Great..

Ahh..I forgot.. I need to put here ..how to install it…well..it’s damn simple…

Download:Update file is available here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-nicedit/

For the updates,please visit my post http://geekytalks.com/2008/11/wp-nicedit-updated-version-10-released.html

Installation:

  1. Unzip wp-nicedit.zip
  2. Upload the wp-nic`edit folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Log in to your admin.Go to Plugins menu
  4. Find the “WP NicEdit” there and click activate.
  5. Congrats,You are done.Go and check your comments on any page/post it is working now :)

Please Note:IE6 is having a little trouble while integrating this plugin.The Visula editor will appear but it will not be enabled.i.e. you may not use the functionalities of NiCEditor.


How to OverCome it:Well the reason of this trouble is,there is a p tag wraping the text area in your comments.php file

Follow the following steps( only required for making it work in IE)
1.Open the Comments.php of your theme(found in your theme folder) in any of the text editor
2.Locate the line which says something like…

<p><textarea id=”comment” name=”comment”></textarea></p>

and replace it with <textarea id=”comment” name=”comment”></textarea>

i.e. we have removed the wrapping p tags.

That’s all we are done now.

If you have any problem with the plugin or wish to add some features please let me know.I am always open to your suggestions and will love to add the feature.Further please leave your comment below for any support i will reply within 24 hour.

Credits:

All the credit for the editor goes to Brian Kirchoff for making the wonderful editor.

I will also like to thank Michael for his great post 10 Best Plugins To Get More Comments from where i got to know about the NicEdit.