Archive for the ‘Wordpress Plugins’ Category

While moving Darkmatter journal from WP-Footnotes plugin to YAFootnotes plugin (custom tweaked, moved because YAFootnotes was easier for writers/reviewers) we bumped into a problem: a lot of older posts used the old syntax. We had three choices:

Leave WP-Footnotes plugin for older posts (different look and feel, one more plugin using up resources)
Change posts by hand [...]

Numerous sites use plugins to expand functionality offered by Wordpress.  A lot of good plugins emerge and fight for a place under the sun. For various reasons I have worked with a lot of plugins and would like to make a public list of plugins I have found to fit my needs.
Ajax Plugin Helper
Very good [...]

There is a bug inside Co Authors and Co Authors Plus plugin, coauthors_wp_list_authors function, where co authors without their own posts doesn't get links to their posts: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/275644
The bug is inside this sql statement:
$author_count = array();
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT
p1.post_author,
(COUNT(ID)+(SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM $wpdb->posts p2, $wpdb->postmeta pm
WHERE p2.ID = pm.post_id
AND pm.meta_key = [...]