Handling multilanguage content is one of the most challenging tasks for a WordPress plugin – I will share my advice on how to turn WordPress into a simple multilanguage CMS, with decent SEO, in minutes. I’ve been experimenting with different plugins and my own SEO add-on, and found a viable solution for most tasks. Continue reading
As you have ve just experienced, this new plugin is useful for building squeeze pages / websites, where you have some premium content (post or page) to protect that you want to trade with newsletter subscription or some kind of email or user data collection.
The plugin restricts access to some chosen posts only to users wich access them with a special URL wich you can easily send to your subscribers, in the subscription confirmation email, via AWeber or any newsletter software you use, or even by Gmail.
The special link that allows access to the restricted posts has just a simple parameter added to the permalink, and always the same for all users – so this is NOT a real login, no nasty user login and password to remember for your users, but only a quick restricted access clicking a link in an email – people will also be able to “fool” the system if they pass or IM their full access URL each other – and this might also be tolerable in a viral marketing perspective.
When the user clicks the special link URL in the received email, the plugin sets a cookie so the user is recognized also next time he is accessing the page, without requiring to click again the special link. Also if the user closes the browser, next time he opens it and accesses the page, he will be recognized.
Just add a custom field called PROTECT_POST and set value to 1.
This will make the post accessible only with the special link.
Have a closer look clicking the screenshot to understand how to do it properly.
(while logged in as admin)
Each protected post will show to WordPress admins only some useful informations – only on protected posts obviously.
Click the thumbnail to view full screenshot.
That’s it!
Would you be interested in it?
Just activate this WordPress plugin, and it will send to the post author a notification email when the blog administrator will publish his post/draft (or edit article and republish).
A must for community wordpress-based websites! I wrote it since I couldn’t find any other suitable plugin to do this. Up and running on some pretty large wp 2.6 – 2.6.3 installs. Should work on all recent wordpress installs. No configuration necessary.
In order to get the plugin, insert your email address. You will receive instantly an email with the direct download link.
I’ll contact you occasionally regarding WordPress plugins and updates – I won’t use your email for any other purpose or give it to anybody else.
[HTML1]
This post is outdated – please read my advice for multilingual WordPress here:
http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/qtranslatemeta/
I saw lots of interest for this subject – Hey , Matt, isn’t it time for WordPress to get multilingual?
I wrote this simple plugin just because I hated most other solutions, that proved very cumbersome and not very clean – but lately I’m experimenting with good success the new version of the qTranslate plugin wich incorporates much of the desired functionality, and some more bells and whistles, while keeping installation simple:
http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/
So this plugin may be a better option for you. I’m going to focus on making qTranslate more SEO!
This is a plugin to turn WordPress into a simple MultiLanguage CMS.
There are other plugins to do so but this one is very light, easy, basic, easily hackable and SEO-friendly.
It has some limits, but it can be perfect in order to use WordPress as a multilanguage basic CMS. Perfect for a multilanguage company website or anything else not too complicated.
The plugin only handles pages. Posts are still there, but the same old way:only in the main language.
The idea behind this simple plugin is that basically, the navigational structure of a multilanguage website looks anyway like a tree, and so it can be perfectly matched via the WordPress standard Page Parent mechanism.
The only problem would be that your theme would obviously list pages in your navigational menus without discerning the language. So we need to introduce a new function to do it properly. That’s what the plugin is mainly for. Don’t worry, it’s very easy to setup once you understand the basic idea!
[HTML1]
First, some good news: if something goes wrong and you don’t like this plugin, remember that it does not alter any table of your precious wordpress install. We’re in beta, after all. But I have many websites happily running this plugin.
To make the plugin work, you need to hack your theme just a bit in order to use the new function to list pages, wich will show only pages in the current language, and to insert the classic language switch links/flags. Backup your theme first, and then start hacking!
Install this preliminary great plugin: is_child. Activate the plugin.This is needed in order to make everything work. MultiLanguage CMS will break your theme if is_child is not installed and active!
Now, download and install the Multilanguage CMS plugin:
After downloading, activate the plugin. No configuration necessary here. Now take a deep breath and go on!
That is very easy but needs a bit patience for the newbies. Some minutes, shouldn’t be more! You just need to know how to use an FTP client and a text editor.
Typically you’ll have to edit your header.php (or more files) in the active Theme folder.
In this file, substitute the standard wp_list_pages function with the wp_mlg_list_pages function, introduced by the plugin.
<ul><?php wp_mlg_list_pages(‘&title_li=’); ?></ul>
And then decide where do you want to put the language switching standard navigation links. Somewhere in the header, right? Or maybe in the sidebar ? (SamsarinPhpWidget would be handy)
Just call the mlg_links function - copy and paste this code wherever you want the language switching links to appear:
This function simply echoes some links, showing only languages that have at least a page. Continue reading!
We assume your WordPress website has already pages for the main language (typically English).
So let’s see how to add a language! Be careful to follow the instructions precisely and it will work in a snap. Pay attention to lowercase / uppercase – we have some case sensitive stuff here.
You’re done! If you did everything well, you’ll see that a new link is born for the new language (printed by the mlg_links function), and clicking this link you should see only pages of that language listed by the wp_mlg_list_pages function you’ve added before.
If you want to disable the plugin, make sure you revert the theme hacks BEFORE – otherwise your theme will break. This is why I advide you to backup your theme before installing the plugin. Anyway, it’s not a great problem: You’ll still be able to enter the wp-admin if you’re stuck in such a situation – just reactivate the plugin and everything will come back to life. This happens because you are calling a function wich is not defined. You could easily avoid that using if function_exists – but I wanted to keep the code as elementary in the example.
I want to thank you Erik Range, the author of this great plugin wich has helped me a lot of times: is_child
Unfortunately the developer’s site (http://erik.range-it.de/) is down. So I’ll host this one for all of you who haven’t used it yet – if Eric is not offended – those lines of code are way too precious to get lost!
Useful for template designers. This plugin checks if current page, posting or category is in direct or recursive relation with a specific parent category or parent page.
Examples:
———————————————————————
Examples:
———————————————————————
–> is_child( 10 )
Checks if the current page, posting or category is somehow
related to category- (or page-)ID 10.
–> is_child( “Example Category”, false )
Checks just if the current element is a direct child of “Example
Category”.
–> is_child( “some-page”, 1 )
Checks if the current element (page) is somehow related to a page
with the slug “some-page”.
As I recently blogged about, there are many good reasons to switch to Mac.
If you are a WordPress blogger, why not endorse the Mac cause showing off you’re a proud Mac user?
This widget will greet your site visitors differently:
- PC users will see this:
- Mac users will see this:
So this is just a funny widget – but I hope it can help many people discover the beauty of the Mac Os.
Get this Widget and try it on your WordPress blog! After all, it’s free 
In order to get the widget, insert your email address. You will receive instantly an email with the download link.
…and very easy to setup!
just a quick post, mostly for myself….to remember this wonderful polls wordpress plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/democracy/
Thank you Mr. Sutherland!
But today, I would recommend another classic: Wp polls: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls/
Sometimes you want to put some content in a static box as shown here:
Yes, read more. With this plugin you will be able to insert additional content wich is displayed upon clicking a “read more” link. [HTML3]
Do you need a SIMPLE plugin for incorporating any HTML code (including Youtube, Metacafe, Ustream.tv html embed code) into your WordPress posts? WordPress 3 compatible?
How many times have you been feeling frustrated because the WordPress built in WYSIWYG editor would destroy your HTML code, no matter what you do?
This light and easy wordpress plugin will solve your problem. Continue reading
