Daily Tip: How to Use Shortcodes in WordPress Text Widgets
August 1, 2011 Grab this quick hack that lets you use shortcodes within text widgets, just as you would within the post editor.
Display WordPress Categories in a Fancy Grid Style Gallery
Want to do something a little more creative with your content? The Category Grid View Gallery plugin offers a visual way to display categories.
Daily Tip: Add Pretty Drop Caps to Your WordPress Blog
Drop caps are a small detail that can add a nice touch to your blog posts or pages. They bring a warm reminder of the beautiful typography from the days of print. The new Drop Cap Shortcode plugin gives you [...]
Daily Tip: Add a Bug Tracking Library to a WordPress Page With a Shortcode
Do you need a simple bug tracking system without all the hassle of setting up a forum on your WordPress site? The Bug Library plugin is the easiest to do it. Create a page for your bug library and then [...]
Daily Tip: Light Weight Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress Uses the New Facebook API
There’s a new plugin out there for using Facebook to authenticate WordPress users and create new accounts. It’s called Facebook Connect and, though it’s based on older plugins that do the same thing, it uses the new Facebook API to [...]
New Plugin Seamlessly Integrates Google Calendars and WordPress
If you’ve ever had to add a Google calendar to WordPress in the past, then you know that there’s really no elegant option for embedding your calendars. They always end up looking ugly, distorted and utilitarian on your otherwise beautiful [...]
Daily Tip: How to Use a WordPress Shortcode Outside of the Post Editor
Here’s a handy tip from the codex. If you want to use a shortcode outside of the WordPress post or page editor, you can use this snippet to output from the shortcode’s handler(s): // Use shortcode in a PHP file [...]
