Although this script it mainly aimed for developers it can be useful for everyone who is able to define an array in his theme’s functions.php file.

The easiest way to implement it is by downloading the plugin and adding a set of lines like these to your functions.php file

require_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/easy-custom-fields/easy-custom-fields.php' );
$field_data = array (
    'testgroup' => array (              // unique group id
        'fields' => array(              // array "fields" with field definitions
            'field1'    => array(),     // globally unique field id
            'field2'    => array(),
            'field3'    => array(),
        ),
    ),
);
$easy_cf = new Easy_CF($field_data);

This is enough to get secure custom fields for your posts. But that’s not all.

More advanced developers can add their own validation rules and field types by extending the existing classes.

require_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/easy-custom-fields/easy-custom-fields.php' );
$field_data = array (
    'testgroup' => array (
        'fields' => array(
            'field1'    => array(),
            'field2'    => array(),
            'field3'    => array(),
        ),
    ),
    'advanced_testgroup' => array (                                     // unique group id
        'fields' => array(                                              // array "fields" with field definitions
            'advanced_field'    => array(                               // globally unique field id
                'label'         => 'Advanced Field Description',        // Field Label
                'hint'          => 'Long Advanced Field description',   // A descriptive hint for the field
                'type'          => 'textarea',                          // Custom Field Type (see Ref: field_type)
                'class'         => 'aclass',                            // CSS Wrapper class for the field
                'input_class'   => 'theEditor',                         // CSS class for the input field
                'error_msg'     => 'The Advanced Field is wrong' ),     // Error message to show when validate fails
                'validate'      => 'validatorname',                     // Custom Validator (see Ref: validator)
            'advanced_email' => array(
                'label' => 'Email',
                'hint' => 'Enter your email',
                'validate' => 'email', )
        ),
        'title' => 'Product Description',   // Group Title
        'context' => 'advanced',            // context as in http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
        'pages' => array( 'post', 'page' ), // pages as in http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
    ),
);

if ( !class_exists( "Easy_CF_Validator_Email" ) ) {

    class Easy_CF_Validator_Email extends Easy_CF_Validator {
        public function get( $value='' ) {
            return esc_attr( $value );
        }

        public function set( $value='' ) {
            $value = esc_attr( trim( stripslashes( $value ) ) );
            return $value;
        }

        public function validate( $value='' ) {
            if ( empty( $value ) || is_email( $value ) )
                return true;
            else
                return false;
        }
    }
}

if ( !class_exists( "Easy_CF_Field_Textarea" ) ) {
    class Easy_CF_Field_Textarea extends Easy_CF_Field {
        public function print_form() {
            $class = ( empty( $this->_field_data['class'] ) ) ? $this->_field_data['id'] . '_class' :  $this->_field_data['class'];
            $input_class = ( empty( $this->_field_data['input_class'] ) ) ? $this->_field_data['id'] . '_input_class' :  $this->_field_data['input_class'];

            $id = ( empty( $this->_field_data['id'] ) ) ? $this->_field_data['id'] :  $this->_field_data['id'];
            $label = ( empty( $this->_field_data['label'] ) ) ? $this->_field_data['id'] :  $this->_field_data['label'];
            $value = $this->get();
            $hint = ( empty( $this->_field_data['hint'] ) ) ? '' :  '<p><em>' . $this->_field_data['hint'] . '</em></p>';

            $label_format =
                '<div class="%s">'.
                '<p><label for="%s"><strong>%s</strong></label></p>'.
                '<p><textarea class="%s" style="width: 100%%;" type="text" name="%s">%s</textarea></p>'.
                '%s'.
                '</div>';
            printf( $label_format, $class, $id, $label, $input_class, $id, $value, $hint );
        }
    }
}

$easy_cf = new Easy_CF($field_data);

Would produce a custom field block with a TinyMCE enhanced textarea along with a field that’s validated to be a valid email address.

Complex fields added with simple code

Please check it out and give me your feedback at : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-custom-fields/

My main goal was to create something that is easy to integrate in my editor of choice ( Coda ) for direct look-ups, have a clean minimalistic design and provides some indexes for easy navigation between files, functions, methods, filters, actions and such.

The result can be found at http://wphit.com/lookup

It still needs a lot of loving, but I thought, I already throw it out there so at least I can use it. Please let me know what you think about it and if you have any ideas how to make it better.

The script is build in a way that it can be activated also out of a theme context and does not perform any database alterations or manipulations on user tables. It simply uses the Facebook data to prefill the comment form and hides it once a Facebook user is logged in.

The initial idea for this procedure was taken from Beau Lebens and wrapped up in an easy to use WordPress plugin.

For more information check out the plugin page at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/faux-facebook-connect/

Feedback Welcome!

Today, I pushed out version 0.92 of this plugin which adds some minor speed improvements and a new pattern to detect a JavaScript virus discovered here.

I am currently still looking for new patterns for possible exploits and unwanted code and hope that we can also improve the speed and memory usage further.

If you have any suggestions for improving this plugin or find additional exploits and unwanted code in your WordPress install feel free to leave a note in the forums.

A customized P2 used as snippet library

With some small alterations, a little design adjustments and some custom coding this theme is a great basis to create all kind of things. At Automattic we are using it on a daily basis and we all love P2 and after seeing the first version of it, I got tons of ideas what could be done with it. Ranging from Simple status updates provided per default via a snippet library which I just created in it’s basic form now to a full blown task manager.

I guess I will be playing with it a little more. Tons of good stuff you can do with it.

Go and check it out at http://sourcebench.com and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

To install it on your blog just login to your wp-admin and go to “plugins” -> “Add new” -> “Search for mention-me” -> hit the “Install” button. -> click “Install Now”. Then activate the plugin.

After this go to the Appearance > Widget page and place the widget in your sidebar in the Design. It allows you to configure the title, select the amount of replies you like to show, the avatar size you like to use and whether or not it should be enabled for non-@replies on comments/posts you made.

For more information and downloading the plugin visit : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mention-me

I would be happy for any kind of feedback.

cat original.txt | sed '/^TAGS/s/ /,/ig' | sed '/^TAGS/s/"//ig' > converted1.txt ;let lines=`cat converted1.txt|wc -l`; let lines=`expr "$lines" : '\([0-9]*\)'`; for i in `seq 1 $lines`; do line=`head -n $i converted1.txt | tail -n 1`; istag=`echo $line|grep -E "^TAGS:"|wc -c`; if [ "$istag" -gt 0 ]; then tags=`echo $line|sed 's/TAGS: \\(.*\\)/\\1/g'`; echo $tags; fi; iskeyword=`echo $line|grep -E "^KEYWORDS:"|wc -c`; if [ "$iskeyword" -gt 0 ]; then let tagline=($i+1); fi; if [ "$i" == "$tagline" ]; then echo $tags; tags=""; tagline=0; else echo $line; fi; done > converted.txt

Luckily there is the custom css upgrade which allows an easy alteration of the stylesheet of the supported themes. Together with the sandbox theme this still gives you a lot of opportunities to alter your design and get some additional themes running on your wordpress.com blog.

For my blog here I have choosen Sandpress, a winner of the Sandbox Designs Competition

Getting such a theme to run in a wordpress.com blog is quite simple although it takes a little more effort than on a wordpress.org blog.

• First off you need to pick and download a theme and unpack it on your local machine.
• Next thing you should do is to make sure that all the image files are in one directory. So if the theme you have choosen has multiple folders for images, take all these images and put them in one folder.
• Now you need to upload these images to your blog as described in the  FAQ
  
• Then go to your media manager (/wp-admin/upload.php) and check for the url of your images (right mouse button and copy link location on one of the thumbnails should do the job).
• The urls should have something like this structure http://BLOGNAME.files.wordpress.com/YEAR/MONTH/FILENAME for example http://snipplr.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/sandpress.png
• Now we need to alter the stylesheet of the sandbox theme of our choice to fit the new urls. So we just need to open it with a text editor and make sure all the paths for url() items within the stylesheet are matching the new image urls. Usually main work will be done with a simple search and replace of “images/” with “/files/YEAR/MONTH/”
• Now it’s time to activate the Sandbox-10 theme (this should be at /wp-admin/themes.php?pa=4 on your blog)
• Once this is done we are ready to try the altered css file. No need to purchase the css upgrade right away, you can just go to /wp-admin/themes.php?page=editcss on your blog and paste the css file into the textarea. Select the “Start from scratch and just use this” option and hit “preview”.
• If everything looks like expected you just need to purchase the “custom css upgrade” and you will be able to save the stylesheet and store it for your site.

I hope this is of any use for the one or the other blogger out there. It should be simple enough to get a lot of extra themes running and if you need any help just leave me a comment.