B2evolution Plugins

This plugin filters the comments for bad words and foul language. Ut replaces a term with funny characters like @#%@ or Asterixes like ****. A comprehensive list is added, so if you want to keep your English up to date, you can learn a lot from this plugin. You are able to manage the list in the settings. It should require the admin to be over eighteen years old. If you wish you may try the filter in this blog. Simply add a nasty word in your comment.

Download: filter_comments_plugin.zip View the code on sourceforge.net - evocms/plugins You can also download from the Sourceforge.net evocms-plugins repositories

This plugin is able to change the size of the textarea where I am now writing this post. To use the plugin install it first and go to your profile page in Dashboard -> Users -> CLICK YOUR USERNAME. There you will find a setting like this:

Download resize_admin_textarea_plugin-0.1.zip DISCONTINUED Link to B2evolution forum post UPDATE A new version that provides a draggable bar under the textarea to change the size is now available. Download resize_admin_textarea_plugin-0.4.zip The very latest verion 0.4 combines the goodies, you can set a default as well as drag the textarea to fine tune.

Have fun!

Did your Google Analytics code survive your latest upgrade? Is it still there when you changed your skin? No worries anymore. This plugin will inject the Google Analytics code into every page in your blog, even in the Admin section.

When you subscribe to Google Analytics you get a snippet of code that goes at the bottom of the page. At teh moment there is a deprecates snippet and a new one. Of course the plugin uses the new one. This is how it looks:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1234567-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

You will need to copy/paste the pageTracker code. Formerly known as _uacct, but the code didn't change. In this code it's UA-1234567-1. You add that to the setting of the plugin:

Link to B2evolution forum post
View the source at Sourceforge.net evocms-plugins
Download at Sourceforge.net evocms-plugins repostiories

Have fun

B2Evolution has a Rich Text Editor for a long time. That;s the http://manual.b2evolution.net/Plugins/tinymce_plugin made by Blueyed. This is a really beautiful plugin, underestimated by many. It is fully customisable and even skinnable. The plugin is made for B2evolution, but the underlying javaScript is used for all kinds of projects. TinyMCE is not the only contestant in the Rich Text Editor market. A full blown editor is the KFC and for some time now there is the Yahoo! RTE from the YUI Library.

This plugin aims to make this editor available for B2evolution. This first draft makes an editor in the comment section and an editor in the write section of the Dashboard. The latter is the full editor, for the comments there is the simple editor. Her is a snaphot of that one:



See for yourself by clicking the feedback link!

At the  moment I am working on the plugin to make some  more features available. Nevertheless this first version is fully functional and you can download it here:
Please do let me know if there are any feature you would like to be added.

Have fun.

Further reading: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/ and http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2007/08/yui-rich-text-editor.html

This is an old hack that uses the mktree javascript to generate a collapsable Catagories list. This is an image "that says more than a thousand words":

You find the description in the forums.

As reported in another post in the forums the collapsable categories hack doesn't work in B2evo 2.4. This is because the categories are now generated by the core plugin. The settings for the widget are moved to the Dashboard.

Luckily this opens the possibility to make a plugin to genereate the code for the retractable lists. With the invaluable help of