You will find a range of exciting community focused projects that need your help. With only a couple of clicks you can help a grass roots local project get off the ground and make a real difference to those it serves. Whether you are an individual, an organisation, school or business, please show your support by making a donation to a project of your choice.

This website has been built on the latest version of WordPress (3.3) and uses a custom theme built from scratch specifically for Crowdfund Sw1′s needs.

The website’s main functionality is its integration with PayPal, which allows user to securely donate to specific projects online. Using the built in WordPress custom post types, each project tracks how many people and how much money has been donated automatically.

Using the WordPress custom meta data for custom post types, the website allows Crowdfund SW1 to embed videos from Vimeo and YouTube by adding the relevant video ID’s to each project.

The website also integrates with MailChimp’s API to add the details of the users who opt-in when donating to a project. This allows Crowdfund SW1 to easily send updates to these people by email, on the progress of the projects they have donated too.

Crowdfund SW1 needs your help and support so go and donate as much as you can over on their website.

Site: crowdfundsw1.com

So iPhorm, a form builder for WordPress, yes before you say it, I know there are a number of form building plugins out there at the moment (such as Contact Form 7 and Form Builder), but you really should take a look and see how this plugin compares, it won’t disappoint I promise.

iPhorm WordPress Plugin

iPhorm’s website says:

iPhorm makes it easy to build basic or complex forms in WordPress in minutes.

Truthfully after playing about with the plugin for only a few minutes it was quite clear to see that this statement was spot on. The plugin comes with a huge amount of features and takes the basic form builder plugin to the next level.

iPhorm has so many features, I’m only going to highlight the few below but please feel free to check them all out over at iPhorms own website.

Field Type Support

iPhorm supports a lot of different field types from your usual text box, textarea, select boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons etc.. right through to really niche fields like time, date, file upload, captcha, password and hidden.

On extra feature I liked was that they had incorporated the jQuery UI library so that date fields included pop-up date selectors. I very cool addition from a UX point of view.

Email and Database Form Actions

The cool thing about this plugin is that it not only gives you option to have the form data sent to you in an email but also captures all the information in your WordPress db. This is helpful if you don’t want your inbox filled with messages and are after a single place to manage all of your responses

Drag, Drop & Ajax Interface

The whole process of creating a form has been made so simple with great use of Ajax. Adding fields, updating settings and moving the field orders is such a smooth process.

In addition you can tell a lot of thought has gone into the admin section of this plugin. All the basic “must do” actions are displayed clearly to you after every click, this allows you to create basic forms very quickly and easily without any technical knowledge. At the same time you have all the advanced optional settings just one click away, if you really want to customise how each form works.

Many More Great Features

As I mentioned earlier, there are too many features to list here on my website but check the rest them out for yourself, including Preview Mode, Tool Tips, Form Themes and Import/Export Forms Across Websites.

Conclusion

I would have to say that this is a very very good plugin and you can tell that the guys at themeCatcher have put a lot of work in to this.

Normally I’m not one for paid for WordPress plugins but I think the features of iPhorm are worth paying the $25 for. However as a developer I would like to see some sort of commercial licence for it. If you are managing 20 -30 + websites, $25 a licence is soon going to add up and might actually be very cost effective.

If there was a commercial licence available that allowed me to use it across all of my sites I would definitely be using it today. But either way go check it out for yourself and see what you think.

Update

2/12/2011 – After speak with the guys at themeCatcher, they have informed me that they are currently looking into commercial multi-site licences for this plugin, which is great news. Please help them out and let them know your thoughts on commerical multi-site licence pricing.

Download

iPhorm is avaible to purchase over at codecanyon: iPhorm WordPress Plugin.

A number of new features have been added including customisable labels and titles, post counts, excluding taxonomies and support for custom taxonomies.

Usage

<?php chainselect_getcategories( $tax, $level, $titles, $labels, $btn_text, $exclude, $count ) ?>

Parameters

$tax

(string) (optional) The taxonomies to retrieve terms from. Default: Category

$level

(integer) (optional) The amount of levels of child terms to return. Default: 1

$titles

(array) (optional) Titles for the first select option in each level – Must be the same number of array elements as $level. Default: array(‘Please select…’)

$labels

(array) (optional) Labels for each select element – Leave blank for no labels. Default: ”

$btn_text

(string) (optional) Text for submit button. Default: ‘Submit’

$exclude

(string) (optional) Exclude taxonomies by id – comma seperated string of id’s. Default: ”

$count

(integer) (optional) Show count of posts for each term. Default: 1

Examples

Show 3 levels of terms with custom labels and titles.
Syntax:

<?php chainselect_getcategories( 'category', 3, array('Select Country', 'Select County', 'Select Town'), array('Country', 'County', 'Town') ) ?>

Show 2 levels of custom terms with custom titles and no term count and excluding terms 6 and 9.
Syntax:

<?php chainselect_getcategories( 'location', 2, array('Select Country', 'Select City'), '', '', '6,9', 0 ) ?>

Details

Important information if you are upgrading from an old version of this plugin, DON’T!

I can’t stress enough that this plugin has been re-written from scratch and is in no way backwards compatible, so please delete the old version of the plugin before installing the new one.

Download

The new version is now available over on WordPress. Download Category Ajax Chain Selects now.

With PHP Code!

You can add the following piece of code to your functions.php file in your theme directory.

/* Disable the Admin Bar. */
add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
/* Remove the Admin Bar preference in user profile */
remove_action('personal_options', '_admin_bar_preferences');

If you don’t have FTP access to your website then you can add this to your functions.php file by going to the Appearance -> Editor section of your dashboard. At the top of the page there is a select box that says ‘Select theme to edit’; make sure that this is your currently active theme, then click on the ‘Theme functions’ file in the list on the right.

Now add the following piece of code to the end of the file just inside the close PHP tag ‘?>’ and save the changes.

/* Disable the Admin Bar. */
add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
/* Remove the Admin Bar preference in user profile */
remove_action('personal_options', '_admin_bar_preferences');

If you check the site you should no longer see the admin bar.

With a Plugin!

Not surprisingly there is already a plugin to achieve this exact thing. You can download it directly from the WordPress plugin directory. Just add it to your plugin directory and activate in the plugins sections of the dashboard.

Link: Disable Admin Bar

I think this is a great addition to the WordPress core but I think personally because I use the White Label CMS plugin then I will wait until I am able to customise it before adding it to any of my websites.

After growing up in Cornwall and attending Falmouth College of Arts, Alex then trained in Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, graduating in 2005.

Since then, he has worked on numerous and varied productions around the country and into Europe, based mainly in Cardiff and London, his work has covered many forms of theatre and television, ranging from small to large scale productions, touring pieces, site specific and puppetry works.

This website has been built on the latest version of WordPress (3.0) and has been created using a modified version of the viewport theme to suit Alex’s needs.

The website’s main functionailty is has been created around the native image galleries, built into the core of WordPress. This made it straight forward for Alex to update and add new projects as time goes on.

The website uterlises a number of plugins including jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries; which makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. It also uses the Search Unleashed plugin; which extends the standard WordPress search to include data from posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, as well as the full content of data inserted by plugins.

Alex currently works freelance so if you like what you see why not get in touch with him over on his website.

Site: nestofboxes.co.uk