Category: Plugins

Setting Up YouTube Live

Posted on by Andrew Minion

WP YouTube Live is a free WordPress plugin to display live videos on a WordPress site.

To get started, follow these instructions:

Enable Streaming on YouTube

  1. Decide if you will stream from a personal account or a brand account. Read more about the differences in this article.
  2. Decide how you will stream video.
  3. Enable streaming for your account; see this article for details.

Set up the YouTube Data API

  1. If you don’t have a Google account already, sign up here.
  2. Log in to the Google Developers Console: console.developers.google.com
  3. Create a new project if you don’t have one already.
  4. Go to the Credentials page: console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials
  5. Click the “Create Credentials” button at the top and choose “API key” and copy the new key
  6. Go to the Enabled APIs page: console.developers.google.com/apis/enabled
  7. Search for Youtube Data API v3 and enable it.

Reference: developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started

Install the WordPress Plugin

  1. Go to the plugins page on the backend of your website.
  2. Press the “Add New” button and search for “WP YouTube Live.”
  3. Install and then activate the plugin.
  4. Go to Settings > YouTube, enter your channel ID and API key, and choose what to display when no video is live.
  5. Add the [youtube_live] shortcode to the page where you want the video player to appear.

Support

For other support questions, please use the WordPress support forum.

Menu Image Plugin + DevDmBootstrap3 Fix

Posted on by Andrew Minion

This little plugin fixes the Menu Image plugin when used with the DevDmBootstrap3 theme.

Menu Image version 2.9.0 changed the way it displays images, breaking compatibility with DevDemBootstrap3. DevDmBootstrap3 uses a custom menu walker but does not use the nav_menu_item_title filter, so the plugin quit working.

One of my contract positions uses DevDmBootstrap3 for many client sites, so I wrote a basic plugin to get it working again.

Browse the code→

To use the plugin, upload the PHP file to your wp-plugins directory and activate the plugin. That’s it!

https://gist.github.com/macbookandrew/d40a416c65c615e0e15e1b6fd0645a67

Merge + Minify + Refresh Force Clear Caches

Posted on by Andrew Minion

This plugin clears other page caches/proxies when the Merge + Minify + Refresh cache is regenerated so users don’t end up missing static resources (CSS/JS files) due to a cached page trying to load old static resources.

Get the code at the GitHub repository. Continue reading “Merge + Minify + Refresh Force Clear Caches”

Post Type Search Form

Posted on by Andrew Minion

Adds a shortcode you can use to show a post type-specific search form.

To use, add [post_type_search_form post_type="post_type_here"] where you want the search form to display.

Get the code at the GitHub repository. Continue reading “Post Type Search Form”

WPForms: Force Async Scripts

Posted on by Andrew Minion

This little plugin has one job: make WPForms’ Google Recaptcha script load asynchronously.

Get the plugin on GitHub.

Installation Instructions

  1. Copy the wpforms-recaptcha-async.php file to your wp-content/plugins/ directory (or compress to a zip file and upload in the WordPress backend “Plugins > Add New”
  2. Activate
  3. That’s it. All the merged scripts will be loaded with the async and defer attributes.

Merge + Minify + Refresh: Force Async Scripts

Posted on by Andrew Minion

This little plugin has one job: make all merged scripts produced by the Merge + Minify + Refresh plugin load asynchronously.

Get the plugin on GitHub.

Installation Instructions

  1. Copy the merge-minify-refresh-async.php file to your wp-content/plugins/ directory (or compress to a zip file and upload in the WordPress backend “Plugins > Add New”
  2. Activate
  3. That’s it. All the merged scripts will be loaded with the async attribute.

Potential Issues

Note that if you have plugins or other code that adds inline Javascript, it probably will break if it’s depending on jQuery (for example) to be loaded and active already.

One workaround is to exclude /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js from the Merge + Minify + Refresh cache, but you may have to exclude other scripts as well.

Woo Generate New Password Reset Link

Posted on by Andrew Minion

If your site auto-generates customer credentials, then they receive their username and password in plaintext in their email.

To improve security and make the experience a bit more user-friendly, this plugin sends users a link to create their password, much like WordPress core does when you add a new user account.

Get the code at the WordPress plugin repository, or open issues at the GitHub repository. Continue reading “Woo Generate New Password Reset Link”

Contact Form 7 to Robly

Posted on by Andrew Minion

Adds Contact Form 7 submissions to Robly, with options to specify the list(s) and custom fields.

Get the code at the WordPress plugin repository, or open issues at the GitHub repository. Continue reading “Contact Form 7 to Robly”