Restrict the usernames that new users may use when registering for your site.

This release introduces numerous new features and improvements, including: support for disallowing spaces in usernames; support for requirement of substrings within usernames; support for localization; support for WP 2.9+, dropped support for versions of WP older than 2.8, and more.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/restrict-usernames.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add option to disallow use of spaces in usernames
• Add option to allow requirement of any of numerous substrings as part of usernames (including start with and end with requirements)
• Add reset button to reset options
• Move initialization of config array out of constructor and into new function load_config()
• Create init() to handle calling load_textdomain() and load_config() (textdomain must be loaded before initializing config)
• Return immediately if username being check is already invalid
• Use strpos() instead of stristr()
• Changed invocation of plugin’s install function to action hooked in constructor rather than in global space
• Extract settings saving code into maybe_save_options()
• Extract settings display code into display_option()
• Update object’s option buffer after saving changed submitted by user
• Add support for localization
• Add .pot file
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with versions of WP older than 2.8
• Update documentation
• Update copyright date

Conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click.

This release features many updates to the plugin, including: improved functionality with JavaScript disabled; less reliance on JavaScript; bug fixes related to ‘Quick Edit’; filterable click character; localization support; support for WP 2.9+; and dropped support for WP older than 2.8.

For more details, instructions, screenshots, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/one-click-close-comments.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Display commenting status even if JS is disabled
• Render commenting status as a ‘span’ instead of an ‘a’ and use unobtrusive JS to make it clickable
• Insert column into desired position using PHP instead of JS
• Fix issue related to disappearance of button for a post after using Quick Edit
• Fix issue of ‘Allow Comments’ checkbox in ‘Quick Edit’ getting out of sync with actual comment status
• Allow filtering of character used as click link, via ‘one-click-close-comments-click-char’
• Move initialization of config array out of constructor and into new function load_config()
• Create init() to handle calling load_textdomain() and load_config() (textdomain must be loaded before initializing config)
• Add support for localization
• Add .pot file
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with versions of WP older than 2.8
• Update documentation (descriptions, FAQs, etc) to reflect behavior changes
• Update copyright date

Disable the search capabilities of WordPress.

For more details, instructions, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/disable-search.

This release primarily adds the disabling/unregistering of the search widget and notes WordPress 2.9+ compatibility, and drops compatibility with versions of WordPress older than 2.8.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Disable/unregister search widget
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Minor formatting tweaks
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with WP older than 2.8
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Safely call functions that may not be available (for example, from within a template, calling a function that is provided by a plugin that may be deactivated).

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/safe-function-call.

This release adds a new function, []czo3OlwiX3NmY2YoKVwiO3tbJiomXX0=[] which allows another function to be called if the originally intended function does not exist. The plugin is noted as being WordPress 2.9+ compatible.

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add new template function _sfcf() to allow calling a function when the intended function isn’t available
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Minor formatting tweaks
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Force browsers to display two spaces between sentences.

The plugin’s official homepage is located at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/extra-sentence-space.

This release has the plugin now retaining the extra sentence space for text appearing in widgets, notes WordPress 2.9+ compatibility, and adds some code documentation.

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Now also filter widget_text
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Note compatibility with WP 2.8+ and 2.9+
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Turn a string, list, or array of tag IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those tags.

This release features minor formatting tweaks and documentation enhancements, notes compatibility with WP 2.9+, but what warrants a v1.1 release as opposed to a v1.0.1 release is the fact that one of the small changes means the plugin drops support for versions of WordPress older than 2.8.

For more details, instructions, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/linkify-tags .

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Add title attribute to link for each tag
• Minor formatting tweaks
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with WP older than 2.8
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Turn a string, list, or array of category IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those categories.

This release features minor formatting tweaks and documentation enhancements, notes compatibility with WP 2.9+, but what warrants a v1.1 release as opposed to a v1.0.1 release is the fact that one of the small changes means the plugin drops support for versions of WordPress older than 2.8.

For more details, instructions, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/linkify-categories .

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Add title attribute to link for each category
• Minor formatting tweaks
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with WP older than 2.8
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Turn a string, list, or array of author IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those authors.

This release features minor formatting tweaks and documentation enhancements, notes compatibility with WP 2.9+, but what warrants a v1.1 release as opposed to a v1.0.1 release is the fact that one of the small changes means the plugin drops support for versions of WordPress older than 2.8.

For more details, instructions, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/linkify-authors.

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Use esc_attr() instead of the deprecated attribute_escape()
• Minor formatting tweaks
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Drop compatibility with WP older than 2.8
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

Prevent broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages.

This release adds a filter, ‘hide_broken_shortcode’, to allow customization of the output for broken shortcodes; widget_text is also now filtered by the plugin. WordPress 2.9+ compatibility has been noted code documentation was added, and the copyright date was updated.

For more details, instructions, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/hide-broken-shortcodes.

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

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Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Create filter ‘hide_broken_shortcode’ to allow customization of the output for broken shortcodes
• Now also filter widget_text
• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Update copyright date

Adds links to the next and previous posts when editing a post in the WordPress admin.

This is a minor update from the v1.1 release, making note of WP 2.9+ compatibility, adding code documentation, and updating the copyright date. (See below for information on the more substantial v1.1 release which wasn’t previously released on this site.)

For more details, instructions, screenshots, and the download link, visit the plugin’s official homepage at :
http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/admin-post-navigation.

Comments welcome on this post for this version of the plugin. Comments will be closed once this release has been superseded by another.

Read more for a detailed ChangeLog of the release.

Detailed ChangeLog

These are the detailed changes, which may or may not make sense to you depending on your familiarity with the previous features and internals of the plugin.

• Add PHPDoc documentation
• Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
• Update copyright date
• Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

v1.1 was also previously released on the WordPress Plugin Repository but not announced here. That release did:

• Add offset and limit arguments to query()
• Only get ID and post_title fields in query, not *
• Change the previous/next post query to ensure it only gets posts the user can edit
• Note compatibility with WP 2.8+