This plugin allows you to add a form to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to submit posts.

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I’ve created a Wordpress Theme that turns Wordpress into a pretty powerful forum! You can see it in action here (please check it out and tell me what you think!) It is currently using my TDO Mini Forms plugin to allow visitors start new topics without being turned into full-blown authors.

It works by treating Categories as Forums and treating Posts with omments as Topics. I’ve also built in a number of features to the theme:

I also did some special integration with two popular plugins:

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The bad news is, I won’t be making any bug fix releases in the next while.

The good news is that I’ve started the 2-last major feature of TDOMF: multiple form support. It’s also the reason why I won’t be doing any bug fixe releases. Don’t worry, I’ll still look at bugs and continue to provide support, but I’m sadly just a one-track devolper.

FYI: It’s coming along slowly. In principal, the lower backend is mostly done (have to update the widgets to use it). However the important bit is the admin interface, that’ll drive most of the changes. I can’t wait to finish it though. It’ll open up a whole vista of potential!

As requested, here is my TODO list for the TDO Mini Forms plugin. I’ll try and keep this up to date with each new release. The order it’s presented in, is not indicitive of the order I’ll implement it. They’ll be done, when they are done.

Open Bugs as of 0.9.4:

TODOs as of 0.9.4:

Some fixes and extensions for Wordpress tags such as a tag cloud using only tags found in a specific category and also tag and category intersection.

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Version 0.5 enables true ‘or’ tag intersection when using a category. It wasn’t working prior to this (and no-one noticed). Thanks to Joel Giddey for spotting it.

Wordpress 2.3 introduced native tagging support, which is rather nifty.

But did you know that you can display multiple tags in the one archive and even generate a feed for that?

Neat huh? But did you notice that on the generated tag page you see only one tag listed in the header? This function fixes that and displays all tags used to generate that tag archive. It does this by silently modifying the single_tag_title template tag. It’ll even work on the RSS feed generated by that page!

What would be also be cool is to be able to intersect categories and tags so you could grab posts with tags from a specific category for example?

With this plugin you can. It’s not perfect however. It only allows intersection between a single category and one or more tags. Technically Wordpress should be able to support multiple categories and tags intersections but it didn’t work for me in Wordpress 2.3.x and 2.5.

So go to one of your category pages. If your using using fancy permalinks then at the end of the url add “?tdo_tag=a_tag“. If your not using permalinks then you can just use “&tdo_tag=a_tag“. You must use the tag slug, not the full tag name. You can use multiple tags as above using “,” and “+”.

This plugin uses this intersection code to automatically modify the built-in tag cloud template tag wp_tag_cloud so that if it is used on a category archive, it shows only the tags within that category. You can then click on a tag in that tag cloud and it will get the posts for in that category that tagged with that tag. (You can disable this and just use the specific template as you need).