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Coffee2Code Releases Updates for WordPress 2.9

By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 13 2010 at 7:00 am | View Comments

One of the most prolific WordPress Plugin authors is Scott Reilly of coffee2code. Nearing 100 published Plugins to his credit, many created during intensive WordPress Plugin sessions annually in the early spring, he recently released updates to his Plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.9.

Reilly is most known for his “kitchen sink” WordPress Plugin, Customizable Comment Listings (CPL), so big he’s released it as a whole Plugin and as modular Plugins so you only use what you need. The Plugin displays recent posts, recently commented posts, recently modified posts, random posts, and so many ways to display content around your entire site, Reilly claims it’s the “1001 Things to Do With Content on Your Blog Plugin.” His Plugins are found on many WordPress blogs around the world, and many, like me, could not run their blogs without them.

Reilly has a way of finding solutions that are helpful to the majority of users, but also meets obscure and eclectic needs, especially for serious webmasters such as STMP email support, Plugins to help Plugin and Theme developers, multiple blogger support, restrict users, post formating, code filtering and cleaning, category images, post linking from within the post, future post features, and more.

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Here are highlights of his recent batch of updated WordPress Plugins for WordPress 2.9, with more on the way.

  • Disable Search disables the search capabilities of a WordPress blog so you can replace it with other options.
  • Safe Function Call allows the user to safely call in functions that may not be available from within a template or otherwise, such as calling in a function provided by a deactivated Plugin.
  • Extra Sentence Space forces browsers to display two spaces between sentences for that extra visible whitespace.
  • Linkify Tags turns a string, list, or array of tag IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those tags.
  • Linkify Categories turns a string, list, or array of category IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those categories.
  • Linkify Authors turns a string, list, or array of author IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those authors, a great Plugin for multiple author blogs.
  • Hide Broken Shortcodes prevents broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages.
  • Admin Post Navigation adds links to the next and previous posts when editing a post in the WordPress Administration Panels.
  • wpuntexturize goes against Matt Mullenweg’s goal of curley quotes and prevents WordPress from displaying single and double quotation marks as their curly alternatives.
  • Custom Post Limits controls the number of posts that appear on the front page, search results, and author, category, tag, and date archives, independent of each other, including specific archives, a must have Plugin for magazine-style Themes and those who want more control over their content presentation.
  • List More Custom Field Names breaks the viewable limit of custom field names by expanding the dropdown selection field in the Post Edit panel.
  • Configure SMTP configures SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending e-mail via SSL/TLS (such as GMail), essential for some installations.
  • No Update Nag removes the WordPress update nag from the top of the Administration Panels to alert the user of a new version of WordPress, a nice addition to those servicing client blogs.
  • Allow Multiple Accounts allows multiple user accounts to be created from the same email address for webmasters.

Reilly is in the process of moving over all his WordPress Plugins to the WordPress Plugin Directory. You can find them there under his name, Scott Reilly, and we’ve included a list here to help you explore more Plugins from this talented Plugin author.

Admin Commenters Comments Count •   Admin Expert Mode •   Admin Per Page Limits •   Admin Post Navigation •   Admin Trim Interface •   Allow Multiple Accounts •   array_partition •   Author Image(s) •   Auto-hyperlink URLs •   Blog Time •   Category Image(s) •   Commenter Emails •   Configure SMTP •   Custom Admin Post Listing •   Custom Fields For Anything •   Custom Post Limits •   Customizable Comment Listings •   Customizable Post Listings •   Disable Directory Listings •   Disable Search •   Dynamic Text Replace •   Easy Post-to-Post Links •   Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments •   Extra Sentence Space •   Get Custom Field Values •   Get Upcoming or Past Posts •   Get User Custom Field Values •   Hide Broken Shortcodes •   Hide/Cut Post Text •   HTML Special Characters Helper •   If File Exists •   Inject Query Posts •   Last Logins •   Linkify Authors •   Linkify Categories •   Linkify Post IDs •   Linkify Tags •   List More Custom Field Names •   Loop Post Navigation Links •   Never Moderate Registered Users •   No Update Nag •   Obfuscate E-mail •   Omit Passworded Posts From Search •   One Click Close Comments •   Parentless Categories •   Peer Categories •   Preserve Code Formatting •   Random File •   Restrict Usernames •   Reveal Template •   Safe Function Call •   Show Pending Comments Count •   Silent Publish •   Single Category Permalink •   Stealth Publish •   Stealth Update •   Text Hover •   Text Replace •   wpuntexturize

Know a prolific WordPress Plugin author you’d like to see us interview or feature? Let us know!

  • I like his "No Update Nag" Plugin. It's great if you have client blogs where you can turn the notification of, so they don't "freak out". You'll know that there's a new WP version anyway.
  • It's something extremely simple that can fix a big annoyance! Scott's good with stuff like that
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