Written By: Zander at Apr 19, 2009
jQuery Plugins:
- qTip Tooltips
- Used for the favicons and the gallery image hover tooltips
- jQuery Form Validation Plugin
- AJAX form validation for our submit form
- jQuery Feed Menu Plugin
- This plugin creates a handy RSS feed menu which can be seen in our menu.
- jQuery MagicLabels
- This plugin moves our form labels to inside their respective inputs.
- jQuery Twitter Plugin
- This plugin displays the jQuery Style Twitter Feed in my footer
- HoverIntent
- A useful plugin that determines the user’s intent; we use it on the gallery list.
Content Management
jQuery Style runs on my favourite CMS, Textpattern and I use a number of great plugins to enhance the site. For those that are interested, here’s the list of currently active plugins:
- upm_category_image 0.5.2 by Mary Fredborg
- Display image for category.
- upm_insert_tab 0.3 by Mary Fredborg
- Allow tab insertion within admin textareas.
- ako_nav 1.0 by Adrian Kostrubiak
- This plugin produces a dynamic navigation bar based on a few specified attributes.
- ebl-image-edit 2.0 by Eric Limegrover
- Advanced Image Editing Plugin for Textpattern
- upm_image 0.6.1 by Mary Fredborg
- More powerful image display.
- rss_unlimited_categories 0.7.4 by Rob Sable
- Enable unlimited categories (tags) per article.
- rss_suparchive 0.18 by Rob Sable
- Article listings by date or by category/section. Archive menu by month or year with totals
- csb_feed_image 0.5 by Christian Sandberg
- Inserts the article image in a feed
- chh_article_lib 1.04 by Coke Harrington
- Function library for article list plugins.
- chh_article_custom 1.15 by Coke Harrington
- An enhanced replacement for txp:article and txp:article_custom.
- chh_related_articles 0.41 by Coke Harrington
- An enhanced replacement for txp:related_articles.
- wyn_recent_comments 0.1 by wayne
- Get recent comments list, with contents displayed
- ob1_pagination 2.5 by Henrik Jönsson
- Creates a Google inspired pagination.
- rss_article_edit 0.1 by Rob Sable
- Add edit article links to your public site.
- rah_google_translate 0.1 by Jukka Svahn
- JavaScript-less and customizable Google Translate plugin
- ied_hide_in_admin 0.1.6 by Yura Linnyk
- Hides fields in admin panel
- upm_plugin_restore 0.1 by Mary Fredborg
- Restore modified plugins to their original contents.
- jmd_neighbor 0.1 by Jon-Michael Deldin
- Pipes neighboring articles into an article form.
- lam_image_uploader 0.6c by Steve Lam
- Upload Images from the Write tab (based on stm_image_uploader)
- rsx_page_number, rsx_last_page_num, rsx_page_number_nav, rsx_pag 3.0.1 by Ramanan Sivaranjan
- A few tags to work with page numbers.
- wet_if_page 0.1 by Robert Wetzlmayr
- Conditionally tests for the current page number being member of a list.
- ajw_if_comment_owner 0.3.1 by Andrew Waer
- Allows checking one or multiple comment field values to "verify" an indentity
- glx_gravatar 2008.1 by Patrick Kollitsch
- Implementation of gravatar for Textpattern
- zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.20 by TXP Community
- Form mailer for Textpattern
- zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.6 by TXP Community
- Language plug-in for Zem Contact Reborn
- mdn_count 1.4 by Mark Norton
- Provides a count of the number of live articles by section or category, or both.
- cbs_live_search 0.8 by Christophe Beyls
- AJAX-powered search with visual effects using jQuery or MooTools
- jnm_feed_custom_item 0.1 by Juanjo Navarro
- Customize the format of your feed item
- rah_sitemap 0.3.2 by Jukka Svahn
- Builds a valid advanced sitemap
- rss_auto_excerpt 0.5 by Rob Sable
- Automatic article excerpts
- myt_google_hilite 0.3 by Jonathan Howard
- This plugin is based on the google_hilite mod by Dean Allen.
- rvm_privileged 0.3 by Ruud van Melick
- Use TXP admin user privileges on public side
- ajw_clean_feed 0.2 by Andrew Waer
- Extends Atom & RSS functionality to allow for /clean/feed/urls
- rsx_plugins_list 1.2 by Ramanan Sivaranjan
- Display a list of plugins currently installed.
- ebl_swfobject 1.0-2.1 by Eric Limegrover
- Adds SWFObject functionality to admin control panel
- ebl_upload 3.01 by Eric Limegrover
- Multiple Image and File Upload
- ebl_upload_swf 3.0 by Eric Limegrover
- Binary : EBL Upload SWF
- mem_twitter 0.3.1 by Michael Manfre
- This plugin will post to twitter whenever an article is published.
- aks_rss 0.1.3c by makss
- RSS parser plugin that fetches RSS feeds and shows the latest feed content inside TxP articles.
- soo_page_numbers 0.2.2 by Jeff Soo
- Article list nav and page count widgets
- soo_txp_obj 1.0.b.1 by Jeff Soo
- Object classes for Txp plugins
- rss_admin_db_manager 4.3 by Rob Sable
- Database management system.
- wlk_phsb 1.0 by Walker Hamilton
- A pubsubhubbub plugin to enable the pushbutton web.
- aks_header 0.3.4a by makss
- Strip white spaces and GZIP compress pages on the fly. Set any page headers. Simple 301 redirect with conditions.
- smd_admin_themes 0.11 by Stef Dawson
- Admin-side theme manager and editor
- bot_write_tab_customize 0.5.2 by redbot
- Rearrange and style items in the write tab
- wet_quickopen 0.1 by Robert Wetzlmayr
- Open recent (and not so recent) articles quickly
- wet_peex 0.4 by Robert Wetzlmayr
- Peek into Textpattern using XML








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