Although many “Facebook Connect” plugins do exist, most of them are either overly complex and difficult to customize, or fail to provide a seamless experience for new visitors. I wrote this plugin to provide what the others didn’t.

One of the features he has is an easy integration into Buddypress. It seems though this was the issue where people had the most problems. There were many, many, many questions about configuring this plugin, and it still seems to be a lot of work to get it going in WPMU.

My judgement is that:

• Justin has worked to fix the issues on his website and in the Buddypress forums.
• This plugin is fairly new, his next version will probably be very good.
• It works for Buddypress, and MU support may not matter once 3.0 comes around.

I was able to install it on a single Wordpress install, but as of yet no WPMU or Buddypress. But the March 19th 2010 update; the next update will probably show off the best of what this plugin can offer.

When that happens, we can see how it matches up against Otto’s FB plugin. The only current con I have with it is the many plugins that have to be installed. The module-based approach is good there isn’t a need for all the plugins, but it would’ve been nice to have an option of an all-in-one plugin as well.

If you have comments/judgments on either plugins, please let us know.

The goal of the index is to organize simple Wordpress information more, and try to consolidate issues into a format where they can be found a lot more quickly than doing a Google or Wordpress forum search. This is an information site, so you don’t have to be an expert to become a part.

You just need to have a passion for Wordpress, and the ability to find information so that we can organize it better for the community. The site will be called wordpressindex.com. The function of the main page will utilize an auto-suggest method fetching pages within the site and throughout the web, making it easy for the user to find what they need.

If you want to become a part, please email me at contact AT wpjudge DOT com. I do plan to have some type of ad revenue or donation method on the site; an incentive for people if they want to help out.

DISCLAIMER: This is for people who use Wordpress for their blogs, not people who have received blogs from Wordpress.com

I looked through the repository and found some plugins that were either outdated or were a little too complicated in terms of restructuring the embed codes ( ME likey cut and paste. ME no likey cut, paste, change bracket symbol, add an equal sign, and video size dimensions etc. )

But without showcasing the contenders, the best Iframe plugin that allowed me to embed videos was:

EMBEDIT WORDPRESS PLUGIN

If The Website Doesn’t Work, Download Here:

I didn’t find this in the Wordpress plugin repository, but it looks legit, and works like a charm.

How to use the plugin:

1. Once you have installed it, all you have to do is go get the IFRAME/EMBED code.
2. In the post, write the shortcode in the visual section “HTML1″ —> instead of quotes, use brackets []. If I put brackets around HTML1, you won’t see it.
3. In custom fields, add the name “HTML1″ —–> no quotes, no brackets
4. In the value section, add the embed code.
5. Publish the darn thing!
6. If you have a second video, you can write the shortcode and add HTML2 in the custom field along with the video embed code.
7. You can do this for up to 9 embeds per post! ( eg: ["HTML1"], ["HTML2]“, ["HTML3"], ["HTML4"], etc. )
8. Not sure if it is supposed to be capitalized, but I do it since the plugin has it capitalized.

Try it out. If anyone has any issues, or has a better Embed plugin ( or other plugins that are related ), let me know.

Here is an exmaple of an embed for you. Great song. Enjoy!

The Future Of Music in The 20th Century by thewham

Now, there is what many category-based themes and CMS websites are looking for:

The Wordpress WTA Category Redirect Plugin

Now, you can redirect any category in Wordpress to any post,page or URL. It is very easy to use, and the function is much needed for the Wordpress community.

We’ll add some screenshots, but once you download and use it, you will love what it does, love how simple it is, and give us suggestions to make it better & work for you.

Also, a donation wouldn’t hurt either:)

Download Wordpress WTA Category Redirect Plugin Version 1.1

Download 1.5 (for 3.0 & Above) here.

Version changes:

Version 1.5

Support for the Monk

Version 1.1

• Took away the php short-tags

FAQ:

Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.9?

We have tested this plugin with 2.9.1 and it works. We have tested this with the Danvers Theme and the Mimbo Theme. Category links in navigation and in the sidebar are affected.

The Plugin doesn’t work for some reason.

It is my fault for this situation. I am a little fresh to plugin building, and I used short-tags for this plugin. I forget some hosts don’t use short-tags and most likely will be phased out in the next php release. I will have a non-short-tag version shortly ( probably around St. Patty’s)

The first plugin, which has been around for a very long time, is Dragon Design’s expanding text plugin. This plugin is really easy to use, the shortcode is very simple, and you can give the expanded text a CSS, so you can manipulate what the expanding text looks like. See the website for the plugin download and demo.

The 2nd plugin is the collapsing objects plugin. This is the plugin that was referred to me by James’s website The Wham. If you go to the Wham website, or go to the collapsing objects website, you can see the demo. It is pretty much the same as the former plugin, but it doesn’t have a css function to change around the text. At the same time, as you can see with above, you can do a lot of things with this plugin.

For this plugin, one of the cool things you can do is that you can expand images as well. As long as you put the image inside the [expand] shortcode, it should work well.

If you have anything else to add, or any other similar plugins, please feel free to tell us below. Thanks.