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2 Gorgeous Yet Functional Plugins For Timelines And Processes

Lynette — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:32:56 +0000

I’m working on a new way to present and display our checklists, lessons and guides in TechBasedTraining. Because a lot of these things are done in a step-by-step manner, I thought it would be good to display them as a process and started build it using some simple jQuery. This was my result

You can tell I'm so not a designer!

Fortunately, while poking around at CodeCanyon one day I stumbled on this great plugin that does this very thing in a much more attractive manner – not to mention less coding for me. Take a look at Dynamic Step Process Panels. I think you’ll agree with me it’s such a nice looking and useful plugin to guide people through the steps they need to complete. They also have a non-WordPress version.

Graphic courtesy of Quanticalabs

While in CodeCanyon, I also found this other impressive plugin called Timetable for WordPress. I’m thinking it might look great for schools, community sites, theaters or even a gated community to display webinar schedules.

Graphic courtesy of RikdeVos

Free Plugin: Pretty CSS Tables For WordPress

Lynette — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Do I have a goodie for you! During an Ask Armand session (part of AM2), Armand Morin was answering a question regarding tables in WordPress. What happened was, this person had created a table in Dreamweaver with styles they wanted then pasted the table into WordPress. Of course the results were not as expected.

Those of us who are familiar with WordPress and in general web building completely understand the reason why. One thing Armand said struck me. That tables in WordPress are not always straightforward.

He’s right but it need not be so at all. In our CSS Quickstart training, I recorded a small demo for students how the CSS hierarchy works and I thought, well this would be the ultimate demonstration.

So I created a stylesheet just for tables and made it into a plugin. You install the plugin and with some very minor modifications to your table will now use these pretty styles instead of whatever the theme designer has set.

This Pretty CSS Tables plugin pack includes 4 styles and you can download the plugin here

More thoughts:

Although the plugin is nice and convenient, it actually works out best if you could create the styles yourself this way, you will be 100% sure your tables (and other areas) have the exact look and feel you want. In order to do this, you need to have a strong understanding of CSS. There’s no better time to learn than now because we can hold your hand as you learn for 4 full weeks. Learn more about this opportunity.

List Authors Plus Plugin

Lynette — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:55:12 +0000

Wow, I was so caught up with security that I totally forgot to tell y’all about my new plugin. Well, I told ya this was coming out a week ago and here it is.

This plugin was created after I got tired of patching together bits and pieces of coding and couldn’t make things work properly. Also in response to some client requests. List Authors Plus lets you list authors on your blog as well as filter out authors by role, individual ID or name. It’ll also organize the authors by most posts if you wish.

Why not use wp_list_authors tag? Because that tag (at this time) is limited. It can only filter out admin but not selective roles or people. That is the biggest thing. Sorting is also not possible. Maybe WordPress will add them in the future but for right now if you need to do this, use our plugin.

This is the official page for the plugin.

This is the download page for it over at WordPress Plugin Database.

Enjoy!

New Plugin Heads Up

Lynette — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:17:42 +0000

I’m finally releasing a WP plugin. Been wanting to do this forever, got caught up with other things at least one is finally here. This will probably not be my last but I think it’ll be a while yet till the next one comes along or maybe not. I have so many ideas. Anyway, I’m still working out the listing and all that jazz. Should let you know in a day or two where you can download it.

This plugin is more an admin plugin. Simple, but through my experience something that blog owners have been looking for that is to extend the existing wp_list_authors template tag. The current tag is still not very developed. You can list authors and remove admins but that’s about it. The plugin will allow you to have finer control over who to display and more importantly allow you to display ‘top authors’.

Watch this space.