MCE TABLE BUTTONS

An easy workaround for a callout or text box.

MCE table buttons, a plugin by Jacob M. Goldman of C. Murray Consulting, can, of course, be used for tables – we’ll get there in a moment. But a single-cell table is also a fast-and-dirty way to format text for emphasis or navigation.

Here’s the link to the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Repository.  While it inserts the table initially via a button on the WYSIWIG toolbar, you can make adjustments to the table on the fly. We’ll send this back to the staff in our test labs with instructions to come up with a variety of tables showing off this plugin, we think it’s terrific if only for this on-the-fly off-purpose use.

You can see this plugin – and more – at C. Murray Consulting, who find time to write and give away plugins while providing some impressive services – and not just in WordPress.

In Aliso(n) Barrett’s new ColorBoxes plugin for WordPress, I failed to point out two virtues of the plugin:
First, in the New Post panel, Aliso(n) has provided code samples for the code-challlenged (people like me
Second, while I carped about the requirement that the color boxes occur at the beginning of the post, it didn't occur to me that an entire short post might look really good in Alliso(n)'s color boxes.

Link to plugin page on Alliso(n)'s site.

Martha: Jack’s right, these attacks are not random, they’re clinical, professional. More like assassinations.
Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who’d assassinate a student?
Martha: Student loans company?
Gwen: Yeah, I think you just cracked it. — J.C. Wilsher, Torchwood – Wikiquotes from episode 2.6, “Reset“

within a post or page will display a random post. The code

Have faith, with a dashing hero like me on the case, how can we fail? – Captain Jack Harkness — James Moran, Torchwood – Wikiquotes from episode 2.2, “Sleeper“

Will display a specific post. I have only one small cautionary observation: while you can easily find this plugin in the WP directory by searching for “quotes-collection” - the widget which the plugin creates is called “random quotes,” although the settings are in the Tools menu under “quotes collection.”

Since we’ve been testing a whole bunch of plugins in this category, and the in-house testing staff is an easily confused bunch to begin with, this gave us a moment’s pause.

Other than that – this one’s a keeper. Assuming you’ve got quotes worth quoting.

Tip of the hat to the always-useful Randa Clay, who mentioned this plugin in her post “Keep Your Site Looking Fresh With Rotating Content.”

I have only one thing to add to his advice, which includes using the excellent plugin WP-DBManager, by Lester Chan. Be careful that you don’t set the plugin to backup too often without removing older backups. The reason is that some web hosts, because of the way Unix works, are even more concerned about the number of files on their servers than they are about space. I ran afoul of my hosting company’s limits by being a little careless about the settings in WP-DBManager. It doesn’t take very long to generate a few hundred thousand files when you back up a WordPress installation.

The second is adding some great powerful functionality – e.g. the Insights plugin. Insights permits you, while you’re composing a post, and without leaving the editing window, to search your own blog (“didn’t we write something about this before that we should refer to here?”); open-license images (“wouldn’t a picture of, say, a cherry make this post perfect?”), videos, Wikipedia, news, blogs, and books, all of which permit you to very efficiently improve a post by making it more authoritative, more persuasive, clearer, and more entertaining.

Using Insights, I’m able to quickly retrieve earlier posts about Vladimir: Here’s our earlier post about Insights: Insights Plugin: finding images, citations, references while composing. This plugin’s so good that I don’t mind at all repeating myself.

Alison Garrett is the author of the new WP plugin ColorBoxes - and the proprietor of Aliso The Geek¹. one of the principals in Barrett Creative² and is the Interactive Architect at Brave New Media.

Alison Garrett is the author of the new WP plugin ColorBoxes – and the proprietor of Aliso The Geek³. one of the principals in Barrett Creative⁴ and is the Interactive Architect at Brave New Media.

ColorBoxes is exceptionally easy to use; it accepts html tags – but if you don’t know anything about html, or think you don’t, just use the WYSIWYG editor (with the “Visual” tab highlighted), write what you want, click the “HTML” tab, and copy (or cut) and paste from the html side of the editing window into one of the colored boxes at the bottom of the editing page.

Colorboxes can easily be found and installed from within the WP Admin Panels: navigate to Plugins | Add New | Search, and when you get to the search window try “Colorboxes” and “Barrett,” since “Colorboxes” alone will return many hits you’re not interested in.

Let’s not forget her other plugins: SimpleMap (shows location of client’s store on map) and the WowHead Sidebar Search. I believe that WOW in WOWHead has something to do with the game “World of Warcraft.”

1. We think there's a clever play on words or anagram or something there - or she just forgot the "n." But since she's done all this top-flight work, we prefer to think there's something mysterious happening.
2. notice all the consonants in his name are still there.
3. We think there’s a clever play on words or anagram or something there – or she just forgot the “n.” But since she’s done all this top-flight work, we prefer to think there’s something mysterious happening.
4. notice all the consonants in his name are still there.

Easy Admin Color Schemes on the WordPress Plugin Repository.

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