The following is a list of WordPress plugins that we use regularly with our WordPress NASA GRC Theme. Most of the plug-ins can be found, reviewed (and installed) by doing a search for their name right within WordPress administration via Plugins > Add New (*).
Clicking on a link below goes to the plugin author’s site; [...]
NASA GRC WordPress Users Guide
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Recommended Plugins for NASA GRC WordPress Theme
November 10, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Modification to TinyMCE for Spellchecking Behind Proxy
September 11, 2009 – 10:14 am
1. TinyMCE, WordPress’ built-in visual editor isn’t discovering the NASA proxy (via http.php). Therefore, when upgrading to a new version of WordPress, be sure to change setting in following file to use the internal PSpell spellchecker rather than going outside the proxy to use the Google spellchecker:
/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/config.php
Uncomment out PSpell and comment out GoogleSpell:
// $config['general.engine'] = [...]
Resolving Issue with Pasting from Word into TinyMCE Visual Editor, Extra Style Information
July 28, 2009 – 4:11 pm
Users who have pasted from Microsoft Word or HTML directly into TinyMCE Advanced visual editor window, without first clicking either of the “Paste from Word” or “Paste as Plain Text” buttons, have discovered a lot of confusing, Word-specific styling info carried over into your content. See example below. Skipping either of these “paste” buttons is [...]
Subpage View Plugin Allows Easy, Dynamic Child Page Listings
July 23, 2009 – 2:13 pm
The Subpage View plug-in, installed on GRC WordPress sites, uses WordPress shortcode [external] functionality to easily list sub pages (children of a parent page, a.k.a. pages that appear under a page in the navigation) in any Page or Post.
This shortcode can be placed anywhere in your text (preferably on its own, separate line) in either [...]
Contemplating WordPress 2.8 upgrade, TinyMCE Advanced Plugin
June 11, 2009 – 11:19 am
You may have seen that WordPress has been upgraded to 2.8. Will we upgrade? Not at the moment. We’ve found it pays to wait until a 2.x.1 or 2.x.2 version to begin fully weighing the benefits of the upgrade and to begin testing the core plugins we use here. We skipped the entire 2.5 versions [...]
Google Gears Appears to Crash Firefox
June 11, 2009 – 10:43 am
If you decided to install the Google Gears add-on for Firefox to enhance the speed of using WordPress, you may be experiencing crashes when uploading photos or files or attempting to install plugin upgrades. If this occurs, please simply uninstall Google Gears from Firefox. This occurs while using Firefox 3.0.10.
We haven’t noticed a significant speed [...]
Photo Gallery Tutorial
March 25, 2009 – 1:21 pm
WordPress 2.7+ includes the ability to render a photo gallery very easily, based on the images you have uploaded to a particular Post or Page.
Here’s how.
Upgrade to WordPress 2.7.x/2.6.5 in Progress
March 20, 2009 – 11:12 am
We are currently working to upgrade all the GRC WordPress sites to either the latest version 2.7.x or prior version 2.6.5, depending on the compatibility of the plug-ins on which the WordPress site is dependent.
Update to Issues and Changes with Upgrading NASA WordPress Theme to WordPress 2.3
November 26, 2007 – 4:21 pm
Issues with TinyMCE Advanced 2.1, WP Last Posts 1.1, and navigation bug fix are the three topics covered in this posted article.
Issues and Changes with Upgrading NASA WordPress Theme to WordPress 2.3
October 29, 2007 – 1:26 pm
The following issues have been found when upgrading the NASA WordPress template to WordPress 2.3. With the upgrade to 2.3, all plugins were also updated to their most recent versions, based on recommendations provided on the WordPress.org site and respective plugin sites. (This NASA GRC WordPress site will be upgraded after issues have been resolved.)
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