Lazyest Gallery does not require to upload using the admin form. In fact, the plugin is built to automatically index your existing uploaded images. Just enter your images folder in the lazyest gallery settings and the plugin will build a gallery. (I am the author of Lazyest Gallery)
If you just add a player to the blog maybe in custom temple(page) you can just use an ajax comments plugin and have the DJ have the comments stream open think about using http://disqus.com/
You need to recode your plugin to make use of the WordPress Widget API
The warning is telling you that you need to chmod (the permissions) the folder to 777 via your ftp client. This will enable the plugin to read, write and execute to the folder on the server.
You need to redo the way you include the Javascript and CSS, or at least just the javascript. WordPress has a way to register scripts and styles and declare their dependencies, in your case it probably isn’t working because jQuery is not loaded. To include javascript do this within the init hook: add_action( ‘init’, ‘toggle_box_init’ … Read more
Two possible approaches: File based: Standard procedure for anything that you do not to get overwritten is to use the uploads folder. Then it will not get overwritten by any kind of update. I have several plugins that need to save data in files for one reason or another – cached ics files, customised css … Read more
My plugin (amr-events) will work with existing categories (and you can choose standard posts or custom post types) There is also a way to convert any existing posts into ‘event’ posts in case there is alot of content already built into a post for an event. It is a paid plugin (the free version at … Read more
Yes and no. It all really depends on your site and how things are set up. For example, Facebook, Twitter, and Google all do this already. They present you with a link (i.e. http://mysite.com) and you click the link. But you’re really going to something like http://google.com/fancy-link-click-tracking-system.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com. This intermediate page logs the activity. On a … Read more
From performance point of view, I don’t think there is any difference between functions.php and plugins : it’s just different places for the code to be. I would be practical : if the function is part of the theme’s core (say, a scrollable slider in the header without which the theme is worthless) : it’s … Read more
I was able to figure it out by looking at the form parameters, which I don’t really like doing since it’s not part of the wordpress api. if anybody has a better idea, please leave a comment. $_REQUEST[‘post_id’] > 0 // it’s being uploaded from a page/post $_REQUEST[‘post_id’] == 0 // it’s being uploaded from … Read more