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WordPress Plugin to Insert Multiple Pages / Posts at once: Quick Posts

Joseph — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:38:37 +0000

NOTE: This plugin is currently broken.

WordPress 3.3 broke it.

I’m in the process of trying to figure out why, but I haven’t been able to make heads or tales of it yet. If you’d like to dig in to the code and fix it, feel free. If you do find a fix, send me the patch, and I’ll add your name to the authors and update the repo. In the meantime, bear with me as I get it sorted out…I’ve been super busy and not able to devote a lot of time to it lately.

Dated: January 29, 2012

Quick Post enables a WordPress user to quickly add multiple posts or pages at once. Version 1.2 has the following features:

Specify whether content to be added is a post or a page
If Pages are added, user can specify Parent Pages (to add children)
User can choose a page template from a drop down
User can specify the Author of new pages
User can specify post status (Published / Draft / Pending Review)
User can add as many posts/pages as they choose by clicking “add more”
User can choose a category from a drop down
User can add tags to individual posts

So, if this plug-in sound like it might help you, download it.

A little more detail:

This plugin uses the WordPress function wp_insert_posts() to add multiple posts at once. I wrote a blog post awhile ago on this same topic, using a PHP file that you would manually execute by navigating to it in your browser, but this way is much easier / faster / more flexible.

Use this plugin if you are:

Quickly inserting multiple posts whose content you already have written
Framing out a new site with desired pages and sub-pages
Inserting multiple posts to be edited later (with Post Status option)

Plugin now in WordPress plugin repository.

I’ve updated the links here to go to the WordPress plugin repository, which is where I will be updating it. You can add this plugin in your WordPress backend, although for the first few days “Quick Posts” won’t bring up the plugin, so you can search my handle: jhinson as an author.

Plugin Released: “Category Expander”

Joseph — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:51:52 +0000

Tim and I finished a plugin today. It is the first plugin that we are officially releasing to the public. The plugin title is “Category Expander”. You can see it in action on the sidebar. Through the settings menu in the WordPress dashboard, you can choose which categories you’d like to be shown, the others will be hidden. A link to “see all” will expand the list to show all of your categories.

If you’re interested in the plugin, you may download it here. If you do download it, please grab my rss feed so that you’ll be updated with any revisions or fixes. I plan to improve upon some of the functionality very soon.

NEWS! (1-16-2010)

The plugin just got added to the wordpress plugin directory, see it here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-expander/

WordPress Plugin: Slim Title

Joseph — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:53:12 +0000

By default, if a post is set to visibility: Private, or Password Protected, the word “Private:” or “Protected:” is prepended to the title. With a simple google search I found a code snippet that worked in replacing those words with nothing, or if I so choose, anything I like. I’ll elaborate later, but for now, here’s the plugin:

Slim Title, WordPress Plugin

Just download the zip, and upload slim_title.php to the wp-content/plugins/ folder of your WordPress installation, then activate it in the Plugins menu.

As I said before, all it does is replace Private: or Protected: with nothing by default. There are no administrative options to this plugin, you can modify it if you are comfortable with the code.