Here's the plugin description taken from the download page:

s2Member is a full-featured membership management system for WordPress®. It provides a very tight integration with PayPal® Subscriptions, and fully supports recurring billing with the ability to track affiliate commissions on a recurring basis. s2Member supports up to 4 different levels of membership with custom labels. It supports custom Pages for signup, account access, and many others. It also supports the ability to protect certain Pages, certain Posts, certain Categories/Tags, certain parts of content, and even includes advanced documentation on how to utilize the PHP runtime constants provided by the s2Member API. s2Member also supports protected file downloads with limitations on the how many files each user ( or each level ) can download in a given period of time.

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First – you will need to create a category that you will use for the other Featured Content Galleries – one per page you want to use it with. Assign posts you want to appear in the featured content gallery with this new category. For example – lets say on your homepage you're running the featured content gallery, and it's showing posts from the "featured-posts" category. But lets say you have a "products" page and on that page, you only want articles related to your products showing up on that page. So you would need to create another category – lets call it "featured-posts-about-products". Then assign this new category to your articles about products. (**Make a note of what the category ID is of this new category!)

You will still need to make sure those posts have a custom field with a key of "articleimg" and a value that is the full URL to the image you want in the featured content gallery.

Now we can start hacking at the plugin…

Open up gallery.php (found in the featured-content-gallery plugin directory). MAKE A BACKUP OF GALLERY.PHP JUST IN CASE! Then, look for this line:

query_posts('category_name=' . get_option('gallery-category') . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));

and replace with the following:

$categoryToUse = 'category_name=' . get_option('gallery-category');
if (isset($catidforgallery) && is_numeric($catidforgallery)) {
$categoryToUse = 'cat=' . $catidforgallery;
}
query_posts($categoryToUse . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));

NOW in your theme – where you have the featured content gallery appearing – if you want it to pull from that special category, you can do this:

<?php
$catidforgallery = 1234;
include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php');
?>

The above code assumes our category ID is "1234".

But lets say you're using this template for a number of different pages, and on each one you want a different content gallery… Again, set up these new categories, make notes of what their IDs are – then on each page that's using this template, to specify what category ID the featured content gallery should use, add a custom field with a key of "category-feature-rotator" and a value of the category ID you want in the gallery.

Modify the theme/template code to this instead:

<?php
$category_feature_rotator = get_post_meta($post->ID, "category-feature-rotator", true);
$catidforgallery = false;
if (isset($category_feature_rotator) && $category_feature_rotator != 0) {
$catidforgallery = $category_feature_rotator;
}
include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php');
?>

That will look for the custom field and use the category ID you put in for that custom field – and if it's not there – then it will just default to the category specified on the Featured Content Gallery options page.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If/when there is an update to the Feature Content Gallery plugin – upgrading will overwrite these changes. This post was written for version 3.2.0 of the plugin. Hopefully they'll build this feature in a next release of the plugin.

UPDATE 11/16/09 Greg had asked in the comments about being able to do a similar technique with multiple featured content galleries, but being able to specify page IDs. He was able to solve the problem before I could and sent me the solution.

To use Page IDs in the gallery: On the page you want to have the gallery displayed on, create a custom field with a key of "pageids" – and for the value, give a comma seperated list of page ids.

Where I had been pulling the "category-feature-rotator" custom field – replace that with the following:

$pageids = get_post_meta($post->ID, "pageids", true);

Then look for the following line in gallery.php (should be around 24)

$arr = split(",",get_option('gallery-items-pages'));

and change it to this:

$arr = split(",",($pageids));

*Note: I haven't personally tested the Page ID method – so if you try it – please report back how it goes…

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Secondary HTML Content – WordPress Plugin

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I have been wanting to do more wordpress plugin development, but it has a somewhat steep learning curve. So I'm testing the waters a bit here. I've done some testing with the plugin, but feedback is appreciated. For now, if you have problems with the plugin, leave a comment here. PLEASE include contact information (fill out the email field with a valid email address!!), a URL where you have the plugin installed, any errors you're getting, etc. The more information you give me, the more likely I will able to fix the problem.

Plugin Description

This plugin will allow you to specify certain pages to not be linked when wp_list_pages() is used in your theme. You might want to do this if you want a header for a series of subpages, but don't specifically want that header to be a real "page" or link.

For example – you have a series of pages like this:

• About Our Company
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Management Team
• Our Products
• etc etc etc

As of version 1.1 of this plugin there are two ways you can go about doing this. You can either remove the link entirely. As in no <a> tag at all like this:

• About Our Company
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Management Team
• Our Products
• etc etc etc

OR you can remove the link to the actual page and sawp it out for a blank link to "#".

Usage

To use the plugin, download the zip, and unzip the file. Install it by putting the scripty-delinkpage.php in your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate it through the WordPress admin. Then, on pages you do not want to have a link, add a custom field with a key of "delink" and a value of "true" when you want to remove the link completely, or a value of "href" when you want the href value to be "#".

Download

You can download this plugin from wordpress.org plugin directory here: Delink Pages

Changelog

Version 1.1.1
Minor bug fix to preg_replace

Version 1.1
Added option for delink to have a value of "href" when you want don't want the link to be removed entirely but be linked to "#"

Version 1.0
Initial release

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In the case of the cforms plugin, the file I had to modify was cforms.php – the line I found that pulled in the file path looks like this:

$cforms_root = $cformsSettings['global']['cforms_root'];

So, just below that I added this:

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) || $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") {
$cforms_root = str_replace("http://","https://",$cforms_root);
}

Pretty simple. Of course, if/when we need to upgrade the plugin, the change will be overwritten – but it's pretty easy to add back in…

(Apparently, I'm not the only one with this issue…)

In the case of the event manager plugin, the file I modified was dbem_events.php:

So just below this:

function dbem_general_css() {
$base_url = get_bloginfo('url');

I added this:

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) || $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") {
$base_url = str_replace("http://","https://",$base_url);
}

No more complaints from IE.

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Thankfully the function does have a filter hook. First – to understand what the function is doing – here is a link to the phpxref of the function.

So you can override this one of two ways. You can simply create a searchform.php page in your theme directory with the search form you want to use… or you can add something like the following to your functions.php file in your theme directory (or create a plugin with this, although that seems like overkill – probably a function in functions.php is fine)

function my_search_form($form) {
$form = '<form method="get" id="searchform" action="' . get_option('home') . '/" >
<div><label class="hidden" for="s">' . __('Search for:') . '</label>
<input type="text" value="' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_search_query', get_search_query())) . '" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'.attribute_escape(__('Search')).'" />
</div>
</form>';
return $form;
}
add_filter('get_search_form', 'my_search_form');

The above value of "$form" is the same HTML that WordPress' get_search_form() will spit out. And it has some nice things in it (like pre-populating the search field with the last query requested). So you can start modifying it from there as you need to (ie. removing or changing "Search for" etc.

From a performance standpoint – I'm not sure which would be better – creating the searchform.php or making use of the get_search_form filter. (or is it negligible?)

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Now the trick I've done to accomplish this, I will warn you worked in the scenario it was designed in – (I had "permalinks" turned on. I'm not sure how this would work, if at all, if they weren't turned on, or if the permalink configuration was different) I'm sure there are probably other setups where this would not work. So, that's my disclaimer.

Basically what we're going to do is use the query string to determine whether or not to display comments or the post on the page. It's not terribly "pretty" – and maybe a htaccess expert can tell us how to accomplish the same task by adding a line or two in there to keep the URLs "pretty" – but in the meantime, I'm just happy to have it work at all!

So first – surround anything you would want only on the POST version of the page with this:
*UPDATED TO ADD: This problem/question has come up a number of times. These changes will probably go on your single.php template file (because thats the page that normally dispalys the comments.) If for some reason you don't have a single.php file, then your "single-post view" is probably being derived from the default single.php template file (in the default theme directory) – so it's probably safe to grab a copy of that one and make your changes to it, and then upload it to your theme's directory)

<?php if (!isset($_GET['show'])) { ?>
POST PAGE ONLY STUFF GOES HERE...
<?php } ?>

*ALSO UPDATED TO ADD:The code above should be WITHIN the "WP LOOP".

Inside there you will want to create a link that will bring the user to the "comment page" for the post. You do that like this:

<a href="?show=comments">Click here to view/write comments</a>

Then you wrap your call to the comments template like so:

<?php if (isset($_GET['show']) && $_GET['show'] == "comments") { ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php } ?>

*UPDATED TO ADD: Take a look at where the comments_template() line normally goes on the default theme, if you're using a custom theme. You want to make sure you really only put that around the comments_template() line… not large sections of your single.php template file…

Now, ON your comments template page (comments.php), you will need to modify the comments form so that after a comment gets submitted, you end up back on the comment version of the page. To do that you need to grab the current URL of the page you're looking at – and put it into a hidden field (named "redirect_to") in the comment form. To get PHP to pull in the full URL, I grabbed this function from webcheatsheet.com:

function curPageURL() {
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
}

To make that available throughout, I created a "plugin" file, and just threw that function into it. (obviously have to activate the plugin before you can start using that function in your theme). (There's probably another way to "add a function" like that, but this worked for me) If you don't already have one, create a "functions.php" file for your theme and add that function in there (surrounded by <?php and ?> tags obviously)

So then before the </form> of the comment form I added this:

<?php if (function_exists('curPageURL')) { ?>
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo curPageURL() ?>" />
<?php } ?>

That's it. Hope that helps someone else.

Updated:
Here are the modifications applied to the default wordpress theme. I've made comments to the changes I added in so you can see what I did and then apply it as appropriate to your own theme. In the zip are JUST the files I modified – not the whole wordpress default theme – so single.php, index.php, functions.php and comments.php.

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<?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link', 'Previous post in category: %title', TRUE); ?>
<?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;', 'Next post in category: %title', TRUE); ?>

Where the first argument (where I have "&laquo; %link") is the format of what is displayed… ie. if you want text before or a tag around the actual link (represented by "%link") this is where you say how you want it to show.

And the second argument (where I have "Previous post in category: %title" is the text of the actual link. You don't have to have the "%title" in there – but I think it's useful)

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Installation instructions:
Download the Decoder Button plugin. (Save that page and just make sure the rename it to "decoder_button.php") Upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder, and activate on the plugins page in your wordpress admin interface.

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