I have been doing a bit of work on some Webme plugins recently. All of the plugins I have been working on are available for download in the webworks-webme SVN and live on the Monaghan Medical Centre website.

Dynamic Search Plugin

The dynamic search plugin enables you to search different sections of your website dynamically. You can choose between searching Site Wide or a selection of categories. You can add catagories in the admin area. A catagory must be a pagename and the plugin will search that page and all sub pages. The plugin also keeps a record of the most popular searches and displays a link to them on the main search page.

The entire plugin is written in both PHP and jQuery. The PHP end acts as a backup for the javascript end. It also allows you to use your own search form to display results from this plugin, as I have done on the MMC site.

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Mailing List Plugin

This is a plugin that I released a while ago but I have made a few changes recently. Previously there was PHP form validation which replaced the form itself if you made a mistake. The problem with that was, depending on the setup of your website, it might not work layout wise. Thats why I have replaced it with a nice jQuery alert, similar to the one I am using on Furasta. The changes aren’t large enough to release a new version but I have updated the SVN and supplied a new download link.

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News Plugin

I wrote this plugin trying my best to make it compatible with the Dynamic Search plugin. If you want to create a news page then you just choose news as the page type. To add a new news item you simply create a new subpage of the news page. If you look at the News page in the frontend it will show a summary of all the news items. It is a very simple plugin which has no database, only 4 files and features pagated results. You can also search the News section easily using the Dynamic Search plugin.

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I also did quite a lot of work on a Music Store plugin which works similar to the iTunes Store. The plugin is not live yet but it will be soon and in the end I decided not to release it, for the moment anyway, because it gets very complicated when dealing with paypal access details. If anyone wants a copy for it, at a price, I can tailor it for your exact needs.

When finishing off a few of my webme templates today I thought to myself, What if the people buying the templates don’t like the banner image? As they are very general and random images.

So what is the solution? Webme Banner Image Plugin v0.1! This plugin creates something very similar to the in-built logo function. It allows you to upload your own banner image and display it in your banner area. You could actually use the logo function in the exact same way, but I thought that some people would like to have a logo and still change their banner image.

All you need to do to make this work is:

• Activate the plugin with the new Webme inbuilt plugin manager.
• Put the code {BANNER} in your template where you would like the banner to appear.
• Go to options>banner image and upload your image.

Simple as that. You can download the plugin with svn:

svn checkout http://webworks-webme.googlecode.com/svn/ww.plugins webme-plugins

Or you can download the plugin by clicking here.

During last week I started work on a webme mailing list plugin. It is now 100% stable (as far as I know!) and ready to release. Features include:

• Customisable mailing list form on the sidebar so that visitors can subscribe to the list.
• Verification email to the person registering to confirm their subscription.
• Easy to follow, sortable list of emails collected in the admin area.
• Ability to send email to everyone on the list at once.
• Options section which enables you to customise everything!

This type of plugin will be usefull for many organisations out there. I am currently working on making it compatible with WordPress.

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I would appreciate any feedback or feature requests on the plugin here. Thanks