If you want to add functionality to b2evo, it is strongly advised that you do so by developing a plugin rather than hacking around. Hacks need to be reapplied to each new version when upgrading. This may not even be possible if the core code changes to… More »

Thanks for the am_rss_reader_plugin and the great directions Yabba. I’m new to all this and appreciate the well spelled out less techie directions. That's what I needed. I have the plugin working for my sidebar. See… More »

I wonder if there is a way to create different labels for a sub-tab on the tools tab for multiple installations of the same plugin? Like acrolink makes a subtab called, appropriately enough, "Acro-Link". But if you install it multiple times… More »

I didn’t like the way the Login plugin didn’t give an alternative Log Out option. It was inconvenient and messed with the symmetry of layout I wanted so I replaced the Menu Link [Log in form] with the User Tools widget but had to mess with User Tools to… More »

Does the messages.pot file need to follow any rules about what order the lines show up in? Like, normally messages.pot (and global.php and messages.po) seem to be in basically the same order the translatable strings are found in the plugin that is being… More »

Hi EdB I've installed 'your' More Tags plugin and thanks. As I wanted something a bit different I thought I'd look at the code. I'm not a boffin like you but it doesn't look to difficult to alter some parameters. So my questions are; 1. Can I install… More »

Is it possible to show the dropdown menu with available user groups in plugin settings? The same as we see on user edit page. More »

The Easylit plugin I am working on is a renderer, and I have a tag that will add a copyright notice at the bottom of the post. Now what is the best way to go about doing that. Say for instance I want the copyright notice to look like "Copyright… More »

I just recently did some code refactoring and updates to my EasyLit plugin that I am working on. well I uninstalled it, and deleted the old file from plugins/ and added a easylit_plugin/ directory under plugins/. Now it recognizes the plugin is there,… More »

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the plugin priority number have to be between 1 and 100? I think I read that somewhere but I'm not sure. The thing is I'm really REALLY close to a super-easy way to re-prioritize your plugins. Actually I've got it… More »

Hi Is there a way I can insert tags in database by calling a standard function which will break the string, assign ids and put tags in db. I just can't figure out how do I put tags directly in db. I have a tag strings and post ids Thanks More »

[I'm using b2evo v 2.4.0-rc2] Instead of modifying the index.main.php file of a blog, is there a plugin already that will list text and links in the sidebar w/headers? For example on my blogs, I usually display 3 custom things in the sidebar: List of… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.4.x I'm stuck trying to determine the correct url to access an icon in my rsc/icon directory. This may be complicated by the fact the blog is set to absolute url and and the absolute url is parked to another domain. I have a… More »

Just a thought here. Probably belongs in a different forum, but it's a thought about plugin development so there ya go. Is there any value in developing a "master list" of translatable terms in plugins? Like, not all text in all plugins will… More »

Howdy all... Two questions. One, is there an easy way to tap into the "Text Renderers" area of the admin? I want to add another checkbox, that if checked, will always add an element(s) to the post. Two, is there an event that I can hook into… More »

Hi there; Well, I'm not sure how to make a plugin render a javascript code... I'd like to make my plugin XHTML valid. To do so, I need to replace "object" with SWFObject declaration. It looks like this: Code<div… More »

The plugins toolbars are beginning to take up a lot of real estate. The "button" based approach for some plugins seems inefficient for some multiple choice plugins...eg video's , Font-family, Font-color etc etc Is it possible to use drop down… More »

because I've already pulled all my hair out, then started - and finished - pulling my eyebrows out. The "test" plugin shows an example of a plugin setting that is disabled and can be enabled by another setting. Code'my_select' =>… More »

...from a thread over on the Site Showcase forum (http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14567&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=), I didn't think that a chosen category carried over to a single post display (a… More »

I've been using regenerate url to great effect in my plugins and new skin (www.thewildlifeporch.com for displays of multiple posts. However, when I'm displaying a single post and I want to display a multipost view, I'm having problems determining the… More »

How can I get the category for the page I am on? I need this for a breadcrumb and link plugin I'm writing for my integration with phpbb and mediawiki. Where the categories in b2e are the same as a certain forum in phpbb and a category in mediawiki. I… More »

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I've got a plugin/widget that has a back-office parameter that is a checkbox. Once the plugin is installed, I add the widget to my skin and check the checkbox. Immediately, I go back to edit the widget, and… More »

I want to write a widget to emulate the "Hot Topics" hack I currently have at www.everythingulster.com I'm going to base it on the Comments List and hopefully with a tiny bit of tinkering get it to do what I want (that is, display a list of… More »

How would one go about ading a new quicktag. I have found the file _quicktags.plugin.php and see how they are generally laid out but I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm trying to do something like this: Codeb2evoButtons[b2evoButtons.length] = new… More »

I need to render the permanent url in a plugin. But when rendered as html, it doesn't recognize the php call and just displays the code. Codefunction RenderItemAsHtml( & $params )  {$params['data'] =… More »

Ok, I am working on this plugin... however when rendered, it gets all screwed up. Turning off plugins like Auto P and Texturize fix the problem... and it then works beautifully!!! So my guess is I need to add the FilterItemContents/UnfilterItemContents… More »

How doI display some debug info in the widget settings screen when some condition is not met. It's an if statement that catches a potential error. I now have PHPecho( 'setting not correct' ;) or similar, but I want a nice box. I am… More »

Hi. My "creative commons" license plugin is supposed to be 'lazy' and I'm pretty sure I set it up correctly, but I've noticed for a fact that every now and then posts with a license won't render. When I was doing the initial work on this I… More »

Hi All, I'm very new to b2evolution, and php in general, so please go easy on me ;) Using the 2.1 beta release. Basically, I'm working on a plugin that will allow us to authenticate across a few different subdomains (for discussion's sake,… More »

Hello! I want to write a plugin that appends a certain piece of code to the end of an article page. For this purpose I used the DisplayItemAsHtml hook: Codefunction DisplayItemAsHtml( &$params )… More »

I'm basing a new plugin and widget on the existing linkblog widget. The linkblog widget's disp_cat_item_list function has a variable, $linkblog_catsel, for explicitly stating what categories in the linkblog to display. I've set this array to ( 83, 72,… More »