The Daily Plugin: Members

By Ryan Imel on June 28, 2011

Today’s Daily Plugin extends the user management system within WordPress to make the modification of user roles, capabilities, and permissions really simple. If you’ve ever been interested in membership sites, or tweaking capabilities on your WordPress site, you should really sit through this episode.

The video is embedded at the top of this post’s page, with more about the plugin below.

Members

Members is a well structured, well thought out plugin that really feels like a natural extension of WordPress. It makes the process of adding new user roles, tweaking capabilities of user roles, and restricting content to certain user roles very, very easy. I recommend it to any friends who are considering various membership solutions for their WordPress sites. If you do any work in that field at all, you must look at Members.

Members was recently updated from 0.1 to 0.2, and saw some nice improvements. I’m really looking forward to the future development of this plugin.

Video recorded with version 0.2 of Members, running WordPress 3.1.3.

About the plugin author

Justin Tadlock developed Widgets Reloaded. He is also one of the authors behind Professional WordPress Plugin Development, as well as the Hybrid theme framework.

It likely feels like just yesterday we were looking at one of Tadlock’s plugins. Odds are we’ll come back around to his other plugins too. He does great work!

Is your plugin worthy?

If you would like to see your plugin featured on an episode of The Daily Plugin, send your plugin information over to dailyplugin@wpcandy.com. We’ll see you tomorrow for another Daily Plugin!

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What happens in 60 seconds?

By Justin Rouch on June 28, 2011

A recent poll asked folks at what age they started contributing to WordPress. That was asking for years. Think about what a year really is. 12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. 8,760 hours. 525,600 minutes.

Yes, I hear the song from Rent in my head when I think about the minutes in a year. Anywho, think about what you accomplish in a year, a month, a week, a day or even an hour. How about a minute? Compared to the time we spend reading, working, eating and sleeping, a minute is a very short period of time. Globally, though, a minute is quite long.

An infographic released this month shows the numbers regarding what happens globally every 60 seconds. The graphic (shown after the jump) shows quite a few impressive things, including:

  • 70+ domains are registered
  • 168 million emails are sent
  • 98,000 tweets are tweeted
  • 13,000+ hours of music are heard on Pandora

Those numbers are astonishing. But, obviously, that isn’t why it’s getting reported on WPCandy. WordPress was included in the data:

According to the graphic, in 60 seconds, there are more than 50 WordPress downloads and more than 125 plugin downloads. That means WordPress is downloaded once every 1.2 seconds and a plugin is downloaded about every half second!

In 60 seconds Infographic Gallery

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If you were asked to think about how many times WordPress and its plugins were downloaded in a single minute, what would you have guessed? Also, there are some other blogging related nuggets you can seek out in the infographic. What do you think about the information shown? Tell us.

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DevPress launches a $5 per year club for themes, plugins, and forum access

By Ryan Imel on June 28, 2011

The quartet of WordPress developers at DevPress have announced the launch of their own DevPress Club Membership this morning. The club will include access to all the themes and plugins they develop, as well as their documentation and community forums, for just $5/year.

DevPress team member Tung Do explained in the post the thought process behind the new $5/year pricing scheme:

There’s already a themes club at almost every price range. Other groups and companies price their themes, plugins, and/or club strategically so they can market their products, gain affiliate support, compete for users, or whatever the reason/motivation is…

Charging a premium price means we have to compete with other companies feature for feature to prove we are superior even when certain features aren’t necessary. That’s not what we want because we don’t develop our products like our competitors do.

Existing DevPress customers (those that purchased the first theme that DevPress put up for sale just a few weeks ago when they relaunched) will be refunded all but $5 of their purchase, and will be immediately a part of the new club.

Do announced the new club on the DevPress blog, perhaps fittingly, since the new club is similar in many ways to Do’s own $5/year club subscription launched during his time at WPDesigner. The WPDesigner Club launched in early 2008 with a similar deal, and drew attention at the time, in part for the provocative price point.

The comparison is a valid one, of course, as Do points out in the post himself in a question and answer format:

Haven’t you learned from the failure of the Wpdesigner $5 themes club? Yes we have. The WPDesigner themes club had one person doing everything. The DevPress Themes and Plugins Club has four people and not just any four.

Those four team members are Tung Do, Patrick Daly, Ptah Dunbar, and Justin Tadlock.

What do you think of the new DevPress Club? Will you join their $5/year club, and if so what effect do you think it will have on the commercial WordPress ecosystem?

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Introducing WPCandy Discussions, the (new) place to discuss WordPress

By Ryan Imel on June 28, 2011

I’m very excited today to introduce the brand new WPCandy forums, primed and ready for your words to fill them up. The forums are located at wpcandy.com/discussions, and you can join in the conversation if you have a WPCandy account (join here if you don’t yet).

The forums you will be most interested in are:

  • General Discussion: If in doubt, start here.
  • Demo Your Work: If you have a new plugin, theme, or service to show off, take it here and get some feedback. Believe it or not, everyone around here just wants to see awesome stuff made.
  • WPCandy website help/bug reporting: There is now a place for questions if you run into an issue on the site, or have a problem with your Pro, or something like that. In other words, bugs come here to die.

You can jump in and talk right now, if you like. Just create a WPCandy account and have at it.

Behind the scenes

The forum is, of course, running on bbPress. We haven’t done a ton of customizations to bbPress just yet, as my post in the forum explains, since we want to feel out how the new plugin works before we make any real changes. Besides, bbPress is pretty dandy just how it is.

We’re also starting small and simple, without a ton of subforums here on launch day. As the discussions begin to happen and it becomes prudent to organize the conversations into more subforums, we’ll add them. For now, you know exactly where to go to both start, and find, fun WordPress community conversations.

Another fun step as a community

I’m personally very excited for the new forums because, as evidenced by some monster comment threads on our blog, our readers (that’s you) love to talk about WordPress. And now you don’t even have to rely on my poorly written puns to start the conversations. That’s just good for everyone.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over and get to talking.

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10 super useful tools for JavaScript developers

By Jean-Baptiste Jung on June 27, 2011

MicroJS


Need a piece of code quickly? MicroJS is a brand new site which aim to provide JavaScript code snippet for most common tasks: Ajax, Json, DOM, Object-Oriented JavaScript, and more. A true gold mine to have in your bookmarks!
Visit http://microjs.com/

Diva.js


Diva is a Javascript frontend for viewing documents, designed to work with digital libraries to present multi-page documents as a single, continuous item. It is designed to work with a IIPImage server and will be an awesome tool for those working on library or bookstore websites. A demo is available here if you want to have a look.
Visit http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva/

Bookmarklet Generator


As you can guess, this tool is a bookmarklet generator: Simply paste your regular JavaScript code, press the button and you’ll get a bookmarklet – ready to be installed on your browser bar.
Visit http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/

jQAPI


Like any other jQuery developers, I spend a large amount of time digging in the documentation. jQAPI is a website which provides the jQuery documentation in a more user-friendly way, so it is now my reference site when I need any jQuery help.
Visit http://jqapi.com

heatmap.js


Day after day, JavaScript continues to surprise me with its endless possibilities: For example, heatmap.js allows you to generate web heatmaps with the html5canvas element based on your data. Easy and efficient!
Visit http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/

Respond.js


Remember my article about adaptable layouts with CSS3 media queries? Respond.js is a small script that allow you to use CSS3 media queries on browsers that do not support it yet (Yes IE, we’re looking at you…).
Visit https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond/blob/master/respond.min.js

Modernizr


Modernizr is a script that helps older browsers to work almost as good as newest ones, so you can build modern applications that will work on IE6 and 7. Your clients will love it, that’s guaranteed.
Visit http://www.modernizr.com/

YepNope


YepNope aim is pretty simple: It answers yep, or nope. For example, ask YepNope is Modernizr is loaded. If yes, ask YepNope to do this, and if not, ask YepNope to do that. That’s simple as that, and very useful in many cases.
Visit http://yepnopejs.com/

Ligature.js


Ligature.js is, unsurprisingly, a script that adds pretty ligatures to any kind of text. A must-have for all typography lovers out here!
Visit http://code.google.com/p/ligature-js/

FitText.js


FitText is a very interesting tool, that allows the automatic resizing of a text regarding the size of its parent element. Just have a look to the website and resize your browser: The text will fit. Another very interesting tool for modern websites and applications!
Visit http://fittextjs.com/

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