Extended Options

Extended Options manages specific meta data and tweaks from within the WordPress dashboard. This plugin also allows you to add content to the head area, comment form, and blog footer, ensuring consistency regardless of a theme change or upgrade.

While the options managed by Extended Options may appear random, these are specific modifications I needed to make whenever activating a theme or upgrading an old one, addressinng specific needs without overlapping other plugins.

  1. Features

    Easy Contact is for WordPress 2.6.x and features:

    • Archive meta links
    • Relationship meta links
    • Favicon meta links (blog and dashboard)
    • OpenID meta links
    • MicroID meta links
    • Geo tag meta links
    • Robots meta links
    • Enabling/disabling author archives
    • Enabling/disabling 404 headers
    • Enforcing www. preference
    • Protocol discovery meta links (Atom, RSD, WLW)
    • Enabling/disabled generator meta link
    • General meta add-in content
    • General comment form add-in content
    • General footer add-in content

  2. Download

    The Extended Options plugin, © 2008 Scott Allan Wallick, is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Please feel free to alter this plugin in any way that pleases you within the terms of its license.

    Download the latest version of Extended Options.

    Extended Options 0.1

    By downloading content, you agree to the Terms of Use.

  3. Install

    This plugin is installed just like any other WordPress plugin. More detailed installation instructions are available on the WordPress Codex.

    1. Download Extended Options
    2. Extract the /extended-options/ folder from the archive
    3. Upload this folder to ../wp-contents/plugins/
    4. Activate the plugin in Dashboard > Plugins
    5. Customize from the Settings > Extended options menu
    6. Enjoy—and then consider donating

    In other words, just upload the /extended-options/ folder and its contents to your plugins folder.

  4. Use

    Access the Extended Options menu from Dashboard > Settings > Extended to set the plugin options. To use this plugin, you do not need to edit any theme files or WordPress core files.

    Everything this plugin does happens based on settings in the Extended menu. Extended Options does require, however, the following hooks/actions to be present in the certain files of your active theme.

    • wp_head() should be present in your header.php theme file
    • wp_footer() should be present in your footer.php theme file.
    • do_action( 'comment_form', $post->ID ) should be present in your comments.php theme file.

    If your current theme is missing these, please contact the theme author and ask him or her nicely to correct these omissions.

  5. Learn

    Please review the accompanying documentation, the included readme.txt, for more information and instructions on using Extended Options and its advanced features.

    Extended Options readme.txt