at the time of writing this post, a wordpress site was upgraded to V3.6 and qtranslate plugin was broken. when editing a page or post, the editor does not allow editing the languages and there's a message displayed above the editor:

The qTranslate Editor has disabled itself because it hasn't been tested with your Wordpress version yet. This is done to prevent Wordpress from malfunctioning. You can reenable it by clicking here (may cause data loss! Use at own risk!). To remove this message permanently, please update qTranslate to the corresponding version.

there is a temporary solution while waiting for the plugin to update.

go to the plugin directory and edit qtranslate.php, locate 'QT_SUPPORTED_WP_VERSION' and change the version number the the current wordpress version.

instagram is one of the most popular photo sharing services. it's quite common to display instagram photos on websites.

i thought about writing a plugin for b2evolution since it doesn't seem to have existed yet. however after doing some research via google (as always), i find it's easier to just add the code to the website rather than writing the plugin.

the service is provided by snapwidget. which displays instagram photos as grid, slideshow or photomap. it's free too! 

simply go to the site, fill in the form (scroll down the page a bit). it will generate a code to be copy-and-pasted to your site. 

if your site is powered by b2evolution, to add to your sidebar:

• from tool bar menu on top of the site, select blog > blog settings > widgets
• add widget, select free html. paste the code.

now. this is easier than writing a plugin.

adds a widget with links to rss feeds and most popular social media such as facebook, google+, instagram, linkedin, pinterest, twitter, youtube.

default icon sets used by the widget by http://www.pinkmoustache.net/.

default icons can be overwritten via css. all icons are enclosed in class #social-icons-block. to overwrite the icon, simple add:

CSS

replace value for [type] with facebook, twitter, gplus, youtube, linkedin, pinterest, flickr, skype, contact.

license

not sure which one to use. it's free and you can do whatever you want with it.

it's greatly appreciated if you could link back to this post and contribute a small donation (tip jar at top right section of the site).

release

0.1 - initial beta release

0.2 - remove hello cotton, add flickr, instagram and contact / email

0.3 - update icons

installation

• download the plugin. untar.
• upload the folder to plugins directory.
• activate the plugin via plugins menu
• in plugin settings, enter the full url to the required social media. if empty icon will not be displayed.

support

please report any issues to the project page so i can easily keep track of any problems.

if you have used this plugin on your site, i'd love to see it! please leave yuor links and let me know what you think in the comments.

i have mentioned in a previous post that qtranslate is one of the essential wordpress plugins to setup a multilingual site. i ended up choosing this plugin because it's seo-friendly and it's easy to manage content - all languages for the same page and post are edit in the same page.

the default languages for the plugin are german, english and chinese. i usually work with english sites. this post basically is a note on how to remove german from default, since i don't work with this language.

at the time of writing, i'm using qtranslate V2.5 with wordpress V3.5.

first, download the plugin.

activate the plugin as shown below:

to access the plguin, from left menu, select setting > languages, as shown:

you will see the default languages setup as shown (you an also change the order of langauge from the same section):

scroll down the page, you will see a table of available languages as shown:

click the disable link.

repeat the above step to remove chinese, if that's not required.

from the same table, you can enable the languages you're going to work with. simply click enable link.

if the required language is not on the list, you can easily add a new langauge to the form to the left of the table the enable it.

when you're editing a post or page, you will see additional tabs to the editor with the enabled languages. simply click the required tab to add / edit language content.

no one likes getting spams. this blog has been getting lots of spams with non-sense messages until this plugin is installed. it can't prevent comments submitted manually and intentionally, but it prevents automated submissions.

i decided to develope this plugin since there isn't one available. well... there was one but it was for older versions of b2evo. i couldn't get it to work and now the link is broken. while i love b2evolution, its plugin directory is very outdated and it's frustrating you can't find anything up-to-dated.

please note that i haven't added this plugin to official plugin directory. it's not thoroughly tested and i need to tidy up codes.

this plugin simply adds a simple verification field to comment form. there are 2 types of verifications - alphanumeric text or simple 1-digit arithmetic calculation. comment will only be submitted if the correct random text is entered or the math calculation is answered correctly. both the text and math questions are generated randomly.

current version only adds the field to comment form. ideally it should applies to all forms. i will work on the other forms later.

logged in users will not see this field. 

this plugin is developed in b2evo V4 but has also been tested in V5-alpha. however captcha / turing feature has been added in V5 so you have the option to use the built-in feature or this for V5.

license

not sure which one to use. basically it's free. you can do whatever you want with it.

it's greatly appreciated if you could link back to this post and contribute a small donation (tip jar at top right section of the site).

releases

0.1 - initial beta release.

0.2 - simplify the random text and allows numeric answer to math question.

installation

• download the plugin. untar.
• upload the folder to plugins directory.
• activate the plugin via plugins menu.
• in plugin settings, choose verification type. verification prefix is simply for a hidden field in the form for verification purpose.

support

please report any issues to the project page so i can easily keep track of any problems.

if you have used this plugin on your site, i'd love to see it! please leave your links and let me know what you think in the comments.