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Have now included an Advanced Search form on the site. Am using Zirona‘s Advanced Search Plugin (Version 0.6).

Installation again was easy:
Uploaded all files to the Plugins Directory
Activated the Plugin
Created a page with the content 
Added the CSS Code from ctas.css to my theme’s CSS Style sheet

I have posted a comment at the Advanced Usage of Advanced Search page (Comment No. 41) to see if there is some way that the check boxes are unticked by default. Hopefulle we can find a solution to this.

Still have to work out how to exclude the page listing from the top menu bar when using this theme. Have used this WordPress site’s help page to exclude the listing from other sites, but can’t seem to find something similar in this theme.

Also would like to get an Advanced Search link below the regular search form in the sidebar, but styled like all the other buttons. Will have to work on that also.

Obviously, if a search was done now, there wouldn’t be a great many results returned (unless you searched for plugins, of course ), but hopefully as the site ages, it will become a useful feature.

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I have installed Alex King‘s Share This Plugin (Version 1.4).

This provides a little green icon at the end of posts that users can click on to submit the post to a bookmarking site or email the page to someone.

Hope you find it handy.

EDIT (15/6/07):

Have changed

within the share-this.php file

Then I added to index.php and single.php in my theme files.
Now the only reason i’ve done this, is because I didn’t want the Share This icon and link on my pages.

You can get the Share Icons from here.

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I have installed Alex King‘s WordPress Grins Plugin (Version 1.5).

This provides a clickable interface in the Write Post Admin area, as well as the Comments section of posts. This should make it much easier to insert smileys, and will mean I don’t have to refer to WordPress’s help site on Smileys.

Always a good thing.

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I have now installed the WordPress Widgets Plugin (Version 1.2.1.20070210b), obtainable from Automattic.

This will allow me to use widgets to set up my sidebar, using a simple drag and drop method.

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Now I have installed the WP-PostRatings (Version 1.10) into my WordPress installation, thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

This required all the downloaded files to be uploaded to my Plugin directory, then activate the plugin.

Then I added the required code

anywhere below

in the single.php file in my theme folder.

This now adds a picture graph at the bottom of posts/pages, showing how people rate the post. Might be fun???

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Now I have installed the WP-PostViews (Version 1.10) into my WordPress installation, thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

This required all the downloaded files to be uploaded to my Plugin directory, then activate the plugin.

Then I added the required code

anywhere below

in the single.php and the page.php files in my theme folder.

This now adds a statement at the bottom of posts/pages, showing how many times the post or page has been viewed by non-registered members (ie, it excludes me!!).

I also added it to the Main Index Template (index.php) so that the “popularity” of posts can be seen from the main page.

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Now I have installed the WP-DBManager (Version 2.10) into my WordPress installation, thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

This required all the downloaded files to be uploaded to my Plugin directory, then activate the plugin. All the options for this plugin then are in the new tab, Database.

I will have to get in contact with my service provider though, about some of the options.

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Now I have installed the WP-Email (Version 2.10) into my WordPress installation, thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

This required all the downloaded files to be uploaded to my Plugin directory, then activate the plugin. Then I updated the Permalink structure.

Then I added the required code

anywhere below

in the single.php and the page.php files in my theme folder.

Finally, I set the options under E-mail…E-mail Options for display of the link.

This now adds a “Email This Post” or “Email This Page” at the bottom of posts/pages. You will only see this link if you click through to the actual page though – you won’t see it from the main page – I thought it looked untidy on the front page.

Enjoy emailing posts and pages from my site.

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Did you see my last post, Print this Post Plugin?

Did you notice the differently formatted text, showing some code I had used to modify some of my pages? It looked like this:

I was able to do this thanks to the Code Markup Plugin (Version 1.1.1), I found at Bennett McElwee’s Thunderguy site. Thanks for the plugin Bennett.

Easy installation:
Upload to plugins directory and activate.

To use in posts, basically I just need to remember to type and before and after the bits I want to display.

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Now I have installed the WP-Print (Version 2.10) into my WordPress installation, thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

This required all the downloaded files to be uploaded to my Plugin directory, then activate the plugin. Then I updated the Permalink structure.

Then I added the required code

anywhere below

in the single.php and the page.php files in my theme folder.

Finally, I set the options under Options…Print for display of the link.

This now adds a “Print this Post” or “Print this Page” at the bottom of posts/pages. You will only see this link if you click through to the actual page though – you won’t see it from the main page – I thought it looked untidy on the front page.

Enjoy printing from my site.