admin-only navigation bar to bridge several projects

Favorite Sometimes I want the home page of a project to look different to administrators than to regular users.  For instance, on a couple projects of mine I was integrating several different technologies, osTicket, osProject, and WPMU — each one of these has different locations for their administrative use, so it is therefor useful to…

WP-Table plugin – Fatal Error fix for WordPress 2.5+

Favorite The following post first appear at http://www.wpsnippets.com/2008/06/wp-table-plugin-fatal-error-fix/ WP-Table plugin by Alex Boelinger is a unique WordPress plugin that allows admins to create tables, by this I mean the ones with rows and columns like in Excel, easily in WordPress. It is the only one that I am aware of at the moment that makes…

matrix rain code

Favorite Here’s the code used to the display the matrix rain, thanks mgccl.com: <p align=”center”><img src=”http://mgccl.com/gallery2/g2data/albums/2007/03/advancedmatrixphp.gif” alt=”matrixrain” height=”400″ width=”600″ /> </p> This code can be placed in .php or .html documents, works for pages and posts in wordpress, and can be added to .css files.  Fairly easy for novice users, send a post if any…

mini-meta widget hack for mu

Favorite the minimeta widget by daniel huesken works with mu when put in the plugins folder, except that it never produces a registration link for new users. Otherwise it’s a very useful widget for customizing your login window. You can find it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimeta-widget/ I add the following code around line 151, which adds a…

Sweet Skin Color Hack for wp-forum plugin

Favorite This hack can be used with any of the skin themes that come with the wp-forum plugin by Fredrik Fahlstad, but looks best with “sweet”.  This hack changes the color of the title bars and large folder graphics, and requires an image editor with a gradient tool (for the folder graphic to look best),…