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.

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..

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.

Bitnami can be called as an installation framework that makes it easier than ever to try the latest and greatest versions of popular open source software. Just install, play with the software, and uninstall when you are done. The stacks are pre-configured, self contained, and will not interfere with the rest of your system.

What is a stack?

BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP or Ruby. All you need to do is download the Stack, provide a few pieces of information when prompted by the installation wizard, and that’s it. By the time you click ‘finish’, your new application will be ready to run.

Softwares supported (for now, new applications are added frequently that are decided with the community polls):

 Infrastructure
- LAMPStack
- MAMPStack
- RubyStack
- WAMPStack
Blog
- Roller
- WordPress
Bug-Tracking
- Mantis
- Redmine
- Trac
CMS
- Alfresco
- Drupal
- Joomla!
- KnowledgeTree
ECM
- Alfresco
- KnowledgeTree
Forum
- phpBB
Poll Management
- Opina
Portal Server
- Liferay
Wiki
- DokuWiki
- MediaWiki
eLearning
- Moodle