The theme on that site wasn’t tweaked at all to make the Ajax functionality work (except some irrelevant CSS changes). It works out of the box on most WordPress themes that follow the theme coding recommendations, see the plugin’s readme.txt for details.

Downloads are available at WordPress.org.

By the way, I use the Ozh admin menu plugin. You might need two clicks to switch if you don’t.

Download the plugin.

A client of mine wanted a plugin to log what users type into forms. I kind of didn’t see the point at first. But a few days later I was a little annoyed that there was apparently no free alternative to websites like clixpy, clicktale and similar services.

It occured to me that recording movies of visits isn’t really hard to do. And so i started a new plugin, loosely based on the unpublished form input tracking plugin.

I am very pleased with the results so far. Of course it’s no match for the professional services mentioned above. But it is good enough to gain a few insights into what can be improved on your website.

The recording script is pretty lightweight but has a rather hefty dependeny: jQuery. It also loads json2.js. I’m sure the logging could be rewritten without the jQuery dependency but that really wasn’t a priority for the first public release.

This plugin probably needs WordPress 2.8 and PHP 5. I didn’t bother to test older versions and won’t support them in the future.

Here is a sample movie of what a recorded session can look like. As you can see mouse movements, clicks, form input, select boxes, checkboxes and radio buttons are recorded.

Important: For the playback you should always use the same browser as the visitor. If you don’t, the mouse position will probably be very wrong. The plugin also doesn’t save a page’s state at the time of recording. This means if comments are added or the content changes, you will see the old movements on a new website.

Downloads at WordPress.org.

The beautiful avatars on this page were created by Deleket.

Downloads at WordPress.org.

Install, add [zcmail] on some page or post, done.

Shortcode demo, please don’t send me test mails:

Downloads at WordPress.org.

Since 0.3.1 the plugin includes a CSS file that is included by default. It is pretty similar to what I use to style the form on this site:

#zcmail .zcmail_error,
#zcmail .zcmail_success,
#zcmail textarea,
#zcmail .zcmail_text,
#zcmail input.zcmail_name,
#zcmail input.zcmail_mail,
#zcmail input.zcmail_subject {
    margin:                 2px 0;
    padding:                2px 4px;
    border:                 1px solid #0d0d0d;
    border-radius:          4px;
    -moz-border-radius:     4px;
    -webkit-border-radius:  4px;
    -khtml-border-radius:   4px;
}
.zcmail_error {
    background-color:       #fcc;
}
.zcmail_success {
    background-color:       #cfc;
}
#zcmail textarea {
    display:                block;
}

• Styling form controls with CSS
• UA CSS conformance

The forms will be visible on every comment on your post/page, but not in the admin section. I found this more convenient than the existing solutions. There’s also a widget included that allows you to turn the forms on and off in case you don’t need them all the time.

Download it from it’s WordPress.org page.

You can download it from the WordPress plugin page.

This plugin makes the options for wp_tag_cloud() available to a tag cloud widget and a shortcode. This means that you can easily choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. See the wp_tag_cloud page for what the settings can do.

Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. The plugin also adds a sensible CSS class to every tag.

Here’s a demo of the new shortcode:

Usage

The easiest way to use this plugin is to drag the widget into one of your sidebars.

There is as well the shortcode [nktagcloud]. Examples:

1. [nktagcloud] This displays the tag cloud as configured on the options page.
2. [nktagcloud single=yes] This does the same but shows only the tags of the current post.
3. [nktagcloud post_id=1234] Displays the tags of the post identified by post_id.
4. [nktagcloud separator=”" categories=no] Remove separator and categories.

Using the tag cloud in your theme

You can call the function nktagcloud_shortcode() from your theme to get the same output as from the shortcode. Example:

if ( function_exists( 'nktagcloud_shortcode' ) ) {
    echo nktagcloud_shortcode( null );
}

There’s also the nk_wp_tag_cloud() function. You can use it to generate a tag cloud with a different configuration than the plugin’s one. It accepts the same parameters as wp_tag_cloud(). Example:

if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
    echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
}

Additonal parameters (all strings):

• single: Only tags of the current post (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
• categories: Inlude categories in the cloud (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
• replace: Convert blanks to non-breaking spaces (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
• post_id: Display only tags of the specified post (post ID)
• mincount: Show only tags that have been used at least so many times
• separator: Tag separator
• inject_count: Add a counter to the tag (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
• inject_count_outside: Add the counter outside of the tag hyperlink (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
• nofollow: Add the noffow attribute to the tags in the cloud (‘Yes’, ‘No’)

Downloads are at the plugin’s WordPress.org page.

If this plugin doesn’t work on your blog, please read the FAQ.

Download

Please go to the wordpress.org download page.