You could use a combination of the Members plugin to manage user roles (ie employee types or levels) along with the Custom Post Type UI plugin to manage various post types. With the Custom Post Type UI you could create posts types. Then you could allow or deny rights for various operations on each type … Read more
I’d look into qTranslate. I haven’t ever used it, but it’s the only free alternative to WPML that I’ve ever seen. That being said, I’d suggest you just pony up the $30-80 for WPML. It’s by far the best-maintained and cleanest multilingual plugin you can get and it’s absolutely dirt cheap, considering what you get. … Read more
I have used both plugins. I tested them both extensively and have built and delivered client websites on both platforms. My tests were conducted over a year ago before I went with my preferred (Shopp) but here is what I found. WP Commerce at the time had buggy code, poorly written markup and many elements … Read more
Attachments in general (images, but also files like PDFs) have a special “attachment page” of the form example.com/main-post/attachment/file-title/. In most themes this is used to display a larger version of the image, still in the theme layout (so it returns a HTML file with the image in it, not the image directly). You could exploit … Read more
Try qtranslate…I use it religiously. Has some issues like with dates and times, but I always find a solution.
Hi @user2041: Clearly as you know you need to modify the search that’s performed which you can do by modifying the values in the instance of the WP_User_Search class used for the search (you can find the source code at /wp-admin/includes/user.php if you’d like to study it.) The WP_User_Search Object Here’s what a print_r() of … Read more
I created two plugins that together should solve my needs. They are currently in an early alpha stage, and all comments are welcome. The base plugin is an On-Demand Resizer. This plugins monitors requests for non-existing files in the uploads dir, and creates images of the requested size if needed. For example, image-200×100.jpg will create … Read more
I’m not sure about the version of Markdown, but here’s some plugins I use markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress to get wordpress to render posts and comments in markdown format. For editors, I prefer markdown-quicktags. It has a bunch of auto-complete features, and seems to be the most actively updated markdown editor plugin. You might also try wmd-admin for … Read more
The code is still a mess, but it seems to work, even on IE 8. I plan to release it in the repository, but in the meantime you can play with my current version. To access it you click the “Edit Image” when adding or editing an image, it replaces the usual image editor (they … Read more