Archives for August 2005

Verse-O-Matic Plugin

Awhile back I created a plugin to display a random verse on the sidebar of this site. I usually do things like this mainly for the tinkering.

Anyway, I’ve packaged this up for download if anyone needs a random verse display on their site. It is fairly straighforward and simple.

Download the .zip file and extract it.
Copy the files (except install.txt) to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Figure out where you want the verse to display.
Call it with the function verse_o_matic()
Go to the plugins area of your WP admin
Activate Verse-O-Matic in the menu

That’s it.

You can edit the list of verses from within WordPress by clicking the link in the plugin menu, or by editing the file verse-o-matic-list.txt directly. Just make sure that you put the entire verse on one line.

Also, I put a link to an online tract around the function call, so all verses go to the same link. But you could probably put links into the txt file as well if you wanted to send things to different places. That might be something I work on in the next version.

[Download verse-o-matic]

Most Wanted Plugin

By Chad Butler 1 Comment

Yesterday I added a new plugin to the side bar. It is “Most Wanted” from Richard Boakes.

This plugin works in conjunction with StatTraq and shows the number of unique views for a given number of posts. I have set it to show the top ten.

It is an easy to install plugin, and adding it to the sidebar was straightforward. You just have a single function call to put in.

Thanks Richard!

StatTraq Site Statistics Plugin and Adding It to the Admin Menu

By Chad Butler Leave a Comment

In my previous blog, I was used a plugin called StatTraq for getting site statistics. It was fairly easy to set up as it was a WordPress plugin. So it was logical that, now that Randy Peterman has updated his plugin for WordPress 1.5, that I install StatTraq for this blog as well.

You can download the beta (1.0b) here.

Also, here’s a little trick. Once you get it installed, if you want to add a link to your admin menu to jump over to StatTraq, follow the steps below.

Go to /wp-admin/ and find “menu.php”
Make a copy of the original file as a backup (just in case)
At line 14 you should see the following line:
$menu[40] = array(__(‘Options’), 6, ‘options-general.php’);
Insert the following as a new line after this line:
$menu[45] = array(__(‘StatTraq’), 8, ‘../wp-stattraq/’);
Upload your new menu.php file

That’s it, you’re done! Go to your admin panel, and you should see the link for StatTraq in your menu.