GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites.

It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).

The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like:

• flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
• product specific sales
• quantity discounts
• free shipping options
• multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts

and supports multiple payment providers like Google Checkout, Paypal & Payment Express.

GetShopped makes it possible to complete the shopping process quickly with a one-page-checkout & optionally, guest checkouts is supported.

It is easy to manage orders with the help of a powerful admin interface, print invoices, packing slips & more.

The plugin also offers lots of other features from comments to new/featured product widgets.

Most web developers have ready-to-use libraries under their hands that were created in past projects & will make developing future projects easier.

If you are not happy with your library, want to improve it or don't have one, you'll love BackPress.

BackPress is an open source PHP library that offers the core functionality for web applications.

The library inherits the bulk of it’s code from WordPress & bbPress.

Some of its features are:

• logging
• permission-based user system
• database connections (across multiple servers & multiple datacenters)
• HTTP transactions,
• XML-RPC server & client,
• caching
• formatting
• XSS and SQL injection protection with various powerful escaping functions
• & more..

Web-kreation is sharing a beautifully-crafted sliding login panel that is very handy to be used in websites with limited spaces.

It has 2 versions:

• using MooTools
• using jQuery (improved version in means of design & functionality)

The panel works by overlapping the content rather than pushing it & can be easily converted to be used for any other functionality (like navigation, search, contact form, etc.)

It is also converted into Wordpress plugins:

• Sliding Panel: WordPress Plugin by Justin Tadlock.
• SuperSlider-Login by Twincascos.

P.S. It comes only the HTML-CSS-JavaScript part of the code & doesn’t have an integrated login system. Such a function needs to be adapted while using the code.

VidoopCAPTCHA is a free verification solution that works image-based which is unusual compared to the widely-used text-based ones.

It aims to be a more user-friendly solution as text-based captchas can sometimes be so hard to read for humans besides bots.

VidoopCaptcha is a hosted service & have plugins for WordPress, Ruby on Rails, and Drupal. Also, there are libraries for programming languages such as PHP, Python, and .NET.

It offers some customization options like category, number of grid squares, color & grid size. For a demo of this security resource, click here.

Divine is a fresh & free Photoshop plug-in for converting Photoshop files into Wordpress themes.

It works by selecting spots in design files & marking them as Wordpress variables like:

• post title
• post text
• author link
• etc..

It produces valid XHTML-CSS code & themes are automatically widget-ready.

Divine has an integrated FTP-client & it is a very ideal plug-in for anyone who is not that into coding and/or Wordpress theming.

FlashMint.com, one of the most popular flash templates provider with a rich collection of premium website templates for all tastes, is giving away free credits to 3 WebResourcesDepot readers:

• $100 credit to one reader
• $75 credit to one reader
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Credits can be spent on any FlashMint products which varies from high quality Flash Intros,  Flash CMS Templates, premium Wordpress Themes to Joomla Layouts & superior osCommerce / Swish Templates.

Details of winning the free credits can be found at  the bottom of the post.

Apart from the exclusive web designs, FlashMint provides Flash components (from XML slideshows to editable e-mail contact forms) for improving your website’s functionality and enhancing its presentation.

And, for any questions you may have before or after purchasing any FlashMint products, they offer a friendly & helpful customer support.

How to win the free credits?

Simply tweet this message on Twitter: Want to win $100 credit for Flash Designs from http://www.flashmint.com/ ? Check the details and join the contest at: http://tr.im/nfy8 (click to tweet easily).

Winners will be selected randomly from tweeters & announced 1 week later (10 June 2009) at WRD.

P.S. Credits can not be replaced with cash & it is possible to buy items with a higher price than the credit earned by simply paying the difference.

Audio Player is a tiny yet beautiful free Flash mp3 player that is used on many popular websites like Talkcrunch.

It is originally a Wordpress plugin but with the increasing popularity, the developer of the player, Martin Laine, has created a standalone version as well.

The Wordpress plugin can directly use the Wordpress media library which is great. The standalone version can be configured very easily too & they both have various features like:

• autostart
• loop
• animation
• remaining time
• volume control & more.

For a demo of the player, you can check TalkCrunch.

P.S. Audio Player is open source & source files can be found here.

WebResourcesDepot is more a place for fresh web design-development resources & generally don’t share resources about Wordpress (although it is a great app.). But, this was something I needed to manage WRD easier, created it & would like to share.

For Wordpress users who switch between frontend to admin frequently for:

• fixing a typo after seeing it in a post
• finding out if there are any new comments
• browsing most used menus like "Write New", Manage-Posts/Drafts"

this fresh WP-QuickAdmin plugin will be very handy.

With a hotkey (default is CTRL+q), a modal box is displayed which includes links to the popular admin menus.

If you’re inside a post, then it displays a link for "editing that post" & "unapproved comments of that post".

The modal box is called with an Ajax request which helps showing the latest count of comments every time the WP QuickAdmin is called (no need to refresh the page).

If an user who is not an administrator calls the QuickAdmin, then an "unauthorized" message is displayed.

Requirements

• Important: Make sure the footer.php file of the theme you use ("wp-contents/themes/your theme/footer.php") has the <?php wp_footer(); ?> info. If not you should add it manually.
  • What is wp_footer()?: It is a function used by many plugins for inserting data to a theme before the </body> tag.

Compatibility

• Tested with Wordpress 2.6.2 & 2.7 (previous versions: unknown).

Security

• QuickAdmin is only displayed to site administrators.
• There is only 1 variable used, it is escaped, sanitized & handled only if the user is an administrator.
• The 2 steps mentioned make it very secure : ).

Updates

• Updates to the plugin will be mentioned in this post & via Twitter (follow WRD at Twitter to get more resources too!).
• I will be adding QuickAdmin to the Wordpress.org’s plugin repository too.

Installation

• Unzip the download files & a wp-quickadmin folder will be created
• Install this folder & all its contents to your Wordpress "wp-content>plugins" folder
• Enable the WP-QuickAdmin plugin from the Wordpress>admin>plugins menu
• If any cache plugins like WP-Cache or WP-Super-Cache is enabled, then the caches must be re-created from the plugin’s settings (so the div tags of the QuickAdmin can be inserted to the theme).

Usage

• Press "Ctrl + q" to call the QuickAdmin from the frontend of your Wordpress website.

Thanks to

• Uses jQuery hotkeys & jqModal plugins (they are included).
• Devlounge for this nice article.

P.S. I’m not a PHP or a Wordpress expert. But, it is very impressive to see that creating anything for Wordpress is almost as easy as using it.

Please share any bugs you face (there can be some) in the comments & I’ll be fixing them as soon as possible.

Sometimes we wonder which web applications are used on a website. Is it built with Wordpress or Drupal, does it prefer JQuery or MooTools & so..

Wappalyzer is a Firefox add-on that automatically displays these for you.

Logos of the applications used on a website are displayed at the toolbar of the browser.

And, it displays the usage statistics on its website which will probably be a great statistical resource once the add-on is used widely.

iBegin Share is an open source "content share & bookmark" script.

Visitors can save/ spread the content as:

• share/bookmark at social bookmarking websites
• send it via e-mail
• save as PDF or DOC
• print

The script comes as a standalone version & Wordpress plugin.

And, contents shared at any time period can be analyzed with a stats page.