Copy widget settings from one blog to another

I don’t think there is anything specifically for this. You might want to look at the plugin code to find calls to get_option() and see what keys they are using, then browse the DB table wp_options with phpMyAdmin (or whatever) and grab the associated values. Without specific support from the plugin this can be iffy … Read more

Bookshelf plugin and/or widget [closed]

There are quite a few plugins tagged books in official repository. A lot of them seems to pull covers from services like Amazon, which may or may not fit your needs. If you want to simply display some self-hosted images with links and basic categorizing/sorting, personally I like to use Links for such.

How to un-attach rich text editor from named textarea elements

Currently you’re telling it to target all textareas on the page so you need to change $init[‘mode’] = ‘textareas’; to $init[‘mode’] = ‘specific_textareas’ or $init[‘mode’] = ‘exact’ and then name the textarea by id where you have $init[‘elements’] = ‘category_description,description’; defined. To read more about tinyMCE options go to http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wiki.php/Configuration and the mode configuration description … Read more

How to call shortcode function directly and pass $atts

do_shortcode() just parses the string. You have to use echo or print to print it out. function_exists() expects a string that matches a function name. After looking at the plugin, I would try this code: <?php if ( function_exists( ‘mediacategories_func’ ) ) { ?> <h1>Inspiration</h1> <?php print mediacategories_func( array( ‘categories’ => 6 ) ); }