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Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin

Allan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:49:13 +0000

This plugin will save your life! If your are using, Neutica, Neutica+ or really any theme that uses custom thumbnail image sizes, this plugin will be ESSENTIAL to you. It deletes your old thumbnails, and generates new ones based on your settings. This way you can easily switch to a new theme and upgrade your thumbnails to match. I’m amazed i’m only finding out about it now. (Thanks Rob!)

Testing out WPTouch

Allan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:23:22 +0000

So I decided to give iPhone/iPod touch users an optimized version of my site. I’m using the WPTouch plugin which has been working flawlessly so far. It was pretty easy to modify the default theme and get it to match the full design. It also makes it easier to respond to comments from my phone which you can’t currently do with the WordPress for iPhone App. Here’s a few screenshots:

Custom Category/Post Template Plugin.

Allan — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:16:33 +0000

This is probably the single most valuable plugin to date (exaggeration?). It basically checks to see if a post in a certain category, and then assigns that post a separate custom template. Genius. And it doesn’t stop there. It also, allows you to assign a custom template to any post ID which means you can make one specific page look completely different than all of the others. Extremely powerful plugin. I found this over at wpelements.com in an old feed article. The plugin was created by Ryan Boren way back in 2005 and it is still very much effective today.

Here’s the code. Enjoy.

Plugin Name: Custom Post Templates
Plugin URI: http://boren.nu/
Description: Load custom single post templates.
Author: Ryan Boren
Version: 0.9
Author URI: http://boren.nu/
*/

function cpt_custom_post_template($template) {
global $wp_query;

$post = $wp_query->post;
$id = $post->ID;

// If a template exists for this post ID, load it.
if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$id}.php") )
return TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$id}.php";

// Add custom checks here. For example, give posts different templates
// depending on what categories they are in.
if ( in_category('1') && file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-cat-1.php') )
return TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-cat-1.php';

return $template;
}

add_filter('single_template', 'cpt_custom_post_template');
?>