PixoPoint

I’ve created an uber simple Colorbox

plugin for WordPress. Unlike other Colorbox plugins, this one has no complicated administration panels or mess to confuse your clients with. It is named simply “Simple Colorbox“. Check it out on the WordPress plugin repository, or here on PixoPoint.

A long time ago in a WordPress world far far away, I made a plugin called “Multi-level Navigation plugin”. It turned out to be very popular, and despite the introduction of menus into WordPress core, is still fairly popular to this day.

It seems however, that times have moved on, as has my knowledge of WordPress plugin coding, and so after receiving a reasonable complaint about the performance of the plugin I decided to do a major recode. I need a few of you to test this out before I go shunting it up to the WordPress plugin repository so if you are using the older version, please download this new version and let me know if you experience any problems.

Multi-level Navigation plugin version 2.3

Assuming everything goes well with testing, I’ll hopefully have this uploaded to replace the old one within the next week. I would list off the various upgrades here, but since I totally rewrote most of the code that would take too long for a single blog post

There may be occasions when you would like to call a raw post from your WordPress powered site and insert it elsewhere on the internet. You could setup a complex cross-server MySQL query, however we decided to take a simpler approach by creating the PixoPoint No Theme plugin which allows us to enter the page or post URL we want to access, followed by ?no_theme=ID, where “ID” is the ID for the page or post we want to access.

Download the PixoPoint No theme Plugin

Tip: You can access external pages from within WordPress via the WP http API with the following code:
$response = wp_remote_retrieve_body( wp_remote_get('http://pixopoint.com/?no_theme=4' ) );

If you have ever wanted to remove the extraneous CSS and JavaScript files which you may not be using in the excellent WP e-Commerce plugin, then you should check out the new “PixoPoint e-Commerce Disabler” plugin which automatically removes them for you.

The PixoPoint Auto Update plugin now includes a download counter to allow you to track the number of downloads of your plugins and/or themes. The number of downloads can be seen in the admin page underneath the slug and URL information. If there are any other features you think should be added, please let me know in the comments.

We have a new plugin called the “PixoPoint Auto-update plugin” available. It makes it easier to setup themes and plugins to auto-update themselves without needing to be hosted in the WordPress.org plugin or theme repositories.

Check it out now! 

The admin page for the auto-update plugin