Random Sticky
Plugins
On a website I needed a kind of “featured article of the day” to sit on top of all other articles. This article was to be pulled randomly from all entries of a particular weblog and was supposed to automatically change every 24 hours.
My first approach was to simply use:
{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" orderby="random" cache="yes" refresh="1440"}
While this was working in principle there were two drawbacks:
- I’m clearing all caches when new entries are posted.
- Using two weblog:entries-tags - one for the random and one for the rest - leaves me with the possibilty of one article appearing twice unless I use some extra code to exclude the randomly selected entry from the second list.
So my second approach was writing a small plugin that randomly reassigns the ‘sticky’-flag(s) in a given weblog in fixed intervals.
SEO gadget
Plugins
This plugin analyzes the referrer data stored in exp_referrers and displays search phrases, search engines, keywords , landing pages and rankings. It can also display data from the EE search term log in a cloud view.
It’s just a little toy for your personal information. You’ll probably want to use it on a non-public template much like the referrer-list.
Splitting up categories
Plugins
The purpose of this plugin is to split up the output of the {exp:weblog:categories style="linear"}-tag.
This can either be done by manually specifing an offset and a limit or by specifing a number of “columns” resulting in several blocks of categories surrounded by <div>-tags.
It has its origin in this forum thread.
Text-indent nested category list
Plugins
I once had the problem that I needed to create a SAEF for a weblog which has three category groups. When using the standard {category_menu}{/category_menu} tag-pair all groups are merged into one which was not appropriate because the category groups did not belong together thematically.
Hence I hardcoded the category menus to show up in three separate select-lists.
However one category group had several levels of subcategories and I wanted to show them properly nested like in the list below:
I ended up with a plugin that transforms the HTML-output of {exp:weblog:categories style="nested"} into an indented text-only version.
Audio CAPTCHA module
Modules
Most current version is 1.1.
This module can be used to place a link to a dynamically generated sound-file which will spell the CAPTCHAs created by ExpressionEngine.
An example can be seen over here where CAPTCHAs are enabled for comments.