WordPress Plugins and Other Programming
WordPress Plugins
- My Calendar
Manage events and maintain a public calendar on your WordPress web site. My Calendar can be extensively customized in appearance and many aspects of output.
- WP to Twitter
The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your blog with support for a variety of URL shortening services to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.
- Content Progress
Content Progress is a WordPress plug-in to quickly spot the pages and posts on your site which are not completed. It's primarily intended as a early development tool while building content out on a new web site.
- My Content Management
My Content Management adds support for generating and displaying a wide variety of types of special content, including Frequently Asked Questions; Testimonials; Staff lists, and a variety of other special content formats.
- WP Post Styling
Add post-specific custom styles to posts or pages of your blog.
Accessibility and HTML Tools
- Color Contrast Tester
Allows you to explore the spectrum of color combinations with a color of your choice. Allows you to see what colors will be acceptable under Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as well as see how the two sets of guidelines compare. See also Testing Color Contrast for WCAG 1 & 2.
- Color Contrast Evaluator
A tool for comparing the contrast of two colors against WCAG 1 and WCAG 2 contrast evaluation guidelines. This tool is cited in Pro ASP.NET 4.0 CMS
, by Alan Harris, published by Apress.
- Semantic Webpage Structure as a Graph
A Java applet to graph the internal structure of the HTML used on a single webpage. Interesting way to view the use of particular elements on a web site.
Software and Programming
Most of these scripts have not been updated since 2008 or earlier.
- Basic Boolean Search Engine in MYSQL and PHP
A simple, home-baked search engine for PHP and MySQL based dynamic websites. Provides basic Boolean searching and low-level security against SQL injection based website attacks. Requires a fair amount of PHP/MySQL knowledge to implement. Current version downloaded
2641times.Previous versions downloaded
11393times (2.6),505(v2.5),2612(v2.0) and1954(v1.5) times, respectively. - Simple poll using PHP and MySQL
Looking for a free and easy way to add a poll to your PHP website with MySQL software? This may help. Version 2, released April 14th, 2008, has been downloaded
794times. Original script was downloaded3607times between May 25th, 2006 and April 14th, 2008. - Processing Forms with PHP, a Beginner's Guide
A tutorial for the beginning programmer dealing with forms for the first time. Gives a basic introduction to form handling with MySQL, writing data to a file, and sending information by email. Script downloaded
1872times. - Easy PHP Photo Gallery
A PHP script to create a photo gallery with one major advantage: it's easy to put together. It's not easy in the sense that you can do it blindfolded, but it's easy in that it requires very few steps to make your gallery. The default CSS is usable, but you'll need a fair amount of CSS skill to make it integrate with your existing design. Version 1.3 downloaded
901times.Version 1.2 downloaded
4781times between November 2008 and February 2010. Version 1.1 downloaded3407times between July 2007 and November 2008. Original version was downloaded422times between March 2007 and July 2007.
