JB Common

A plugin with common features missed in WordPress, like favicon, meta tags, adding HTML to head and footer, WordPress e-mail from header filter, etc.

I’ve developed this plugin for my own job. I’ve realized that when I create a
new WordPress project, there are some features I have to plugin every time. I
decided to bundle they all into a single plugin, and I’m publishing it for
other creators who may find it useful too.

Take a look to the Changelog
for a complete feature list, you may be interested in some of them.

1. Unzip jb-common.zip inside the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Customize the plugin options for your own site.

Why not writting a plugin for each feature?

This plugin was designed for creating new WordPress sites faster, and managing one plugin is faster than managing many.

I need only one of your features and I don’t want to install them all

Feel free to copy the code from that feature to your own plugin, but remember the GNU/GPLv3 or later license!

Will you add new features in the next version?

Maybe. I accept suggestions, tell me on the plugin’s WordPress Extend support section
if you have one. Only features useful on most blogs will be included.

1. 

   Detail of the popping group on the admin bar. Mind the users and plugins shortcuts, and the W3C validator link for the current URL.

2. 

   The JB Common Configuration admin section. Each option is listed as name, description, custom value and default value.

3. 

   The section for viewing the JB Common log contents. If you integrate the log system with your software, you can view your outputs here.

4. 

   The info admin section. A complete reference for all functions, shortcodes, widgets and features.

1.0

• Available languages: english (default), castillian (spanish) (es_ES).

• Some integration with the Attachments plugin
  by Jonathan Christopher. (Option jbcommon_attachments_meta_key)

• Disable the WordPress auto format feature for exact HTML editing. (Option jbcommon_auto_format)

• W3C Validator link on Admin Bar for entries code validation. (Option jbcommon_show_validator_link)

• Maintenance mode for redirecting your visitors to a custom “under maintenance” page. (Options jbcommon_maintenance_mode , jbcommon_maintenance_url , jbcommon_maintenance_key and jbcommon_maintenance_value)

• Enable the WordPress debug mode without modifying the wp-config.php (Option jbcommon_debug_mode)

• Text box for inserting custom text on footer, using the wp_footer hook. (Option jbcommon_footer)

• Filter the WordPress e-mails name and address, for avoiding the default “WordPress [email protected]” header. (Options jbcommon_email_from_address and jbcommon_email_from_name)

• Add your custom favicon by URL. (Options jbcommon_favicon_mime and jbcommon_favicon_url)

• Text box for inserting custom text on head, using the wp_head hook. (Option jbcommon_head)

• Text boxes for some common meta tags like keywords and description, and override the WordPress generator meta tag for avoid version echoing. (Options jbcommon_meta_tag_author , jbcommon_meta_tag_description , jbcommon_meta_tag_generator , jbcommon_meta_tag_keywords )

• Log features that you can integrate on your own code, with multiple verbose levels for displaying on screen and writting to a file. (Options jbcommon_log , jbcommon_log_session_key , jbcommon_log_file , jbcommon_log_file_max_lines , jbcommon_log_level_file , jbcommon_log_level_display_admin , jbcommon_log_level_display )

• Author bio echoing. (Widget JBCommon_Bio_Widget and shortcode jbcommon_sc_bio)

• Contexted feeds, for example, echoing only the category feed link on category pages. (Widget JBCommon_Feeds_Widget and shortcode jbcommon_sc_feeds)

• Shortcode for calling PHP functions. (Shortcode jbcommon_sc_call_function)

• Shortcode for echoing PHP constants. (Shortcode jbcommon_sc_get_constant)

• Add an admin menu separator. (Function jbcommon_add_admin_menu_separator($position) )

• Echo the attachments from the Attachments plugin. (Function jbcommon_echo_attachments($header_level=4) )

• Retrieve an admin page URL. (Function jbcommon_get_admin_page_url($page) )

• Retrieve the current admin page permalink. (Function jbcommon_get_admin_permalink() )

• Retrieve the current URL, not only inside The Loop like get_permalink requires. (Function jbcommon_get_current_url() )

• Retrieve the current category for the pre_get_posts hook. (Function jbcommon_get_query_category($wp_query=false) )

• Retrieve the URL for the W3C validation for the current URL. (Function jbcommon_get_validator_url($url=false) )

• Check if all elements inside an array are of a specified type. (Function jbcommon_is_array_of($a,$class) )

• Check if the current page is the login one. (Function jbcommon_is_login_page() )

• Check if the current page is the register one. (Function jbcommon_is_register_page() )

• Echo the print_r PHP function wrapped between <pre> and </pre>. (Function jbcommon_print_r($var) )

• Retrieve an URL with some vars appended. (Function jbcommon_url_append_vars($vars,$url=false,$entity=true) )