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:
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:
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.
Requirements: jQuery or MooTools
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
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.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
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.
Requirements: Photoshop CS3+
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
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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?
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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.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
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.
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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.
Requirements: Firefox
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.
Requirements: PHp & MySQL
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Allowing users to invite their contacts from other networks or e-mail providers is a popular method used in social networks & web applications.
OpenInviter is an open source PHP class, written in PHP5, for importing contacts from most of the well-known e-mail providers & social networks.
Such an invite feature is great, specially when presented as optional, to gain new users/visitors to any service.
There are already ready to use integrations for:
- Wordpress
- Drupal
- Joomla
- phpBB & more.
OpenInviter supports:
- Gmail
- Windows Live
- Yahoo
- Mail.com
- Facebook
- Friendster
- hi5
- Linkedin
- Twitter
- Myspace & more..
Requirements: PHP5 & cURL or wget
WooThemes, which is the new face of "Premium News Themes" (premiumnewstheme.com), launched recently with some nice features.
They are a team of 4 well-known Wordpress theme designers; Adii, Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks who are about to rise the bar in premium themes market.
Rather than the famous news theme "Premium News Theme" was offering, WooThemes currently offers 10 themes and officially promises to release at least 1 new theme every month.
A new feature; "WooThemes Club" can be a good address for users who like changing themes frequently as members of the club can download every theme (and the new themes released).
In my opinion, ProudFolio, a new Wordpress theme created by Elliot Jay Stocks is very unique as it is totally targeted to designers & other creative people who wants to present their portfolio and have a blog at the same time.
And Vibrant CMS is again a new theme which is business-targeted & very elegant (this is also the base theme of WooThemes).
If you’re looking for quality Wordpress themes with support, WooThemes is a powerful option for that.
P.S. This post is a review.
