Today, I have launched two separate wordpress installations that act as a testing platform to support plugin develoment and -debugging without risking to destroy a production wordpress installation. One of the test sites, found here, will always feature the latest release of wordpress. The other test site, found here, runs the obsolete 1.5.2 version of wordpress, to test the downward compatibility of newer plugins. I will mainly use these test blogs for my plugin reviews and the development of my own plugins, but if you are a plugin author, you are welcome to send me a copy of your plugin to be tested in those environments. BTW, both installations are non-standard-directory installations of Wordpress that can help people developing on standard installations find problems and mistakes in their plugin’s directory implementation.

Today, I have released my second plugin for WordPress. Actually, it is a very simple plugin that enables you to link to wikipedia definitions in multiple languages whilst writing your posts. It uses a markup style similar to wikipedia’s markup which is almost as flexible as the actual wikipedia markup. The links in this post have completely been created by ActiveLink.

More information and download…

Current Version: 0.1.0

Are you using ActiveLink? You may want to consider donating to support the development of new features!

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Download
3. Installation
4. Changelog
5. Wishlist
6. Donate
7. Comments

About ActiveLink

ActiveLink allows you to set links to wikipedia articles by means of a wikipedia-style syntax when typing your posts.

• Write “{en:Post}” to create a link to the english lemma of “Post”: Post
   
• Write “{de:Post}office” to get a link to the german definition of “Post”, but let the link title display “Postoffice”: Postoffice
   
• Write “{en:Blog|Wordpress}” to create a link to the english definition of “Blog”, but have the link display “Wordpress” instead: Wordpress
   

Download

Download:

activelink.0.1.0.zip (2,14 KB)

Installation

Installation:

1. Upload the plugin package to your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Unzip the package (unzip activelink.zip)
3. Go to your “plugins” administration page and activate the ActiveLink plugin

Changelog

Still empty…

Wishlist

Planned features:

• Ability to support other link types (dictionaries, search engines, …)

Problems or comments?

Just write a comment below!

I have decided to write about and recommend plugins to all PlugInstaller users by reviewing them on this site. I did not have the time to write any reviews yet, but I am looking for possible review candidates. So if you have devloped or stumpled upon a plugin that might be especially useful, you are welcome to send me a link to this plugin to have it reviewed.

Also, take a look at this page to get more information and some links to other plugin review sites.

If you are looking for even more plugin reviews, you might find some here: sw-guide (german), BlogHelper (english), pixelgraphix.de (german).

On this page, I am reviewing some of the most useful plugins for wordpress. If you have found a plugin you find especially useful, or if you are a plugin author who wants to "spread the word" about her new plugin, you are welcome to suggest plugins to be reviewed here. Of course, I am not taking any money to review plugins, but please remember that I am doing this work in my spare time, so I will not be able to review every plugin you might suggest. My work will be concentrated on (but not limited to) those plugins that are not (yet) known to a large audience. If you submit a plugin for review, please specify the plugin’s name, the plugin homepage (if there is any) and the download location.

Reviewed Plugins

2007-07-06: NextGEN gallery 0.61a

Other plugin review sites

• Vi-Su (german)
• Weblog Tools Collection DE (german)
• BlogHelper (english)
• sw-guide plugins list (german)

Survey

I am planning to include a list of "recommended plugins" in PlugInstaller, if this functionality is supported by a majority of its users. Please vote if you would like to have such a functionality included in a future release of PlugInstaller.

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This page describes my efforts to create a Wordpress plugin that replaces the TinyMCE rich text editor (RTE) shipped along with wordpress by FCKeditor, a very powerful and easy to use RTE that is commonly used with many projects all around the web.

As a visitor of this blog told me that there already is such a plugin, I am no longer continuing the development of this plugin, but I will try to incorporate some of my features into Dean’s FCKeditor for Wordpress plugin, which I highly recommend.

Many people have asked to be able to replace the TinyMCE rich text editor (RTE) shipped along with WordPress by their favorite RTE. As my favorite RTE is FCKeditor (which I have successfully used in many projects), I have started to develop a plugin that is able to replace TinyMCE by FCKeditor. This greatly enhances the possibilities when writing articles in WordPress, like comfortably embedding flash, tables, and smileys , as well as text formatting.

There is still a lot to do (like connecting the image browser), but this article has actually been written with FCKeditor. Stay tuned for the first beta release!

So, nach meinem Login zeigt mir der “Tellerrand” (wieso eigentlich Tellerrand? Ich meine, eigentlich ermöglicht einem diese Seite doch, über selbigen hinauszusehen…) an, daß Wordpress 2.2 released sei. Mal schauen, ob ich in den nächsten Tagen die Zeit und Muße finde, mal ein Upgrade zu wagen. Wenn ich fertig bin, schreibe ich natürlich auch darüber, wies war und ob man das Ding brauchen kann. Naja, und eine größere Überarbeitung des Templates wäre vielleicht auch nicht unangebracht… verdammt, das klingt nach Arbeit.

PlugInstaller 0.1.5 has been released today! As promised, the following new features and fixes have been implemented:

• automatic uninstallation of plugins
• display readme file after installation
• display readme files for already installed plugins
• guess file type when downloading from a redirect page (does not work with wp-plugins.net)

more information and download…

The PlugInstaller WordPress plugin 0.1 has been released. This plugin enables you to install new plugins directly from your admin interface within a matter of seconds, without having to upload the plugin package(s) manually. PlugInstaller can upload a plugin archive from your harddisk or automatically download and install it from online sources (like the WordPress.org plugin repository).

More information and download