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jimw

Username: jimw
Email: jwursteratcomcastdotnet
Joined: July 2006
Visits: 3,136
Last Active: January 14
Roles: Member
Badges: 11
Points: 87
Posts: 1,406

CountCharacters
This extension gives all users the ability to see the number of characters remaining as they are adding a comment or starting a discussion. When the max_comment_length setting is exceeded, the Submit button is hidden. This prevents the user from accidentally submitting a comment that is too long.

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.2 Author jimw Downloads 2,507 Updated June 2009

Bevel
Someone suggested adding image display effects that they saw on Christian Effenberger's site. And so I have.

The idea behind this extension is simple - find all img tags and change the className to one of the several image styles of Christian Effenberger at http://www.netzgesta.de/cv…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.0 Author jimw Downloads 954 Updated April 2008
zip2mail
This extension will add an option on the Settings page called Backup. It presents a brief description of what the backup will do. You will now see radio buttons for 3 choices of a backup, database, extensions and themes (new in version 1.0.3).

When you click on the Build Backup butto…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.6 Author jimw Downloads 2,182 Updated January 2008
SimplifiedCategories
I found an easy way in css to simplify the display of the Categories. I hope it is useful.

I am now looking into expanding the Category link to include the Category description. I couldn't find a simple way to do this via an extension, so I made a simple change to the themes categori…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.2 Author jimw Downloads 2,718 Updated December 2007
CategoryIcons
I packaged up DraganBabic's great idea for Category Icons via stylesheet changes into an extension. This removes the need to change the vanilla.css file. I have included a set of images that I use for my categories. Replace them with your images. Then modify the included style.css file before uploa…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.3 Author jimw Downloads 6,070 Updated July 2007
Sidepanel Image Link
This add-on was developed from a forum request to add a link to the images displayed by Krak's Sidepanel Rotator add-on. This add-on uses a file called imglinks.txt that you create listing the image file names and the url link to which you want to go once you click on the image. A sample file is in…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.1 Author jimw Downloads 1,923 Updated June 2007
DiscussionSort
This extension sorts the Discussions alphabetically for those of you using Vanilla in the context of arranging Discussions used as Book titles or CD titles, etc. A menu of the beginning letters of the Discussions found is displayed at the top of the screen. If you mouse over the letter-link, you wi…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.0 Author jimw Downloads 1,313 Updated June 2007
David
This add-on will hide all discussions that are set as a Sticky from the Discussions page. The discussion count is adjusted because of this. The Sticky will only be shown when you actually view the Category.

Thanks to WallPhone for his ideas.

After a question to see how…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.1 Author jimw Downloads 1,178 Updated March 2007
iBox
This is another javascript to display text or images in a box, like Thickbox and Lightbox. It adds the iBox script by Ahmed Farooq at http://www.iBegin.com.

My extension DiscussionExcerpt version 1.0.2 uses this script if you use the iBox option.

I have included exampl…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.2.1 Author jimw Downloads 1,454 Updated February 2007
BoxOver
This is another javascript to display text or images in a box, like Thickbox and Lightbox. It adds the BoxOver script from http://boxover.swazz.org.

My extension DiscussionExcerpt version 1.0.2 uses this script if you use the BoxOver option.

I have included example fil…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.0 Author jimw Downloads 1,375 Updated February 2007
DiscussionExcerpt
This will allow you to display x character under the Discussion title. By default, it is 300 characters. You can edit the file and change this. This is a beta version, so please test and send me your feedback.

This new version 1.0.2 adds options to display the entire post in a mouseo…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.0.2 Author jimw Downloads 1,584 Updated February 2007
Iceburgg
This is a wintry, Christmas theme I derived from the Iceburgg WordPress theme created by Astereostudio & Devlounge at http://www.devlounge.net.

Vanilla 1 Type Style Version 1.0 Author jimw Downloads 2,186 Updated December 2006
flashclocks
This extension will display a flash clock in the side panel. Two flash clocks are provided. The default is set to the large clock which not only has a clock but also a calendar. The small clock is only a clock, much simpler than the large clock/calendar. I ported a WordPress plugin (by viperbond007…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.1 Author jimw Downloads 1,376 Updated December 2006
WeightedWords
This upgrade was inspired by a thread on the support forum and the implementation on the Houseblogs.net site. I modified this add-on to show the Word Cloud in the Side Panel with a new "View All Tags" link. This produces a page on which all the words on your forum are displayed as tags. It also sho…

Vanilla 1 Type Plugin Version 1.1.0 Author jimw Downloads 1,851 Updated December 2006
winter-wonderland
This is a WordPress theme that was originally done by Kalina Web Designs at http://www.kalinawebdesigns.com/. I modified it to fit into Vanilla. I hope I have all the css bugs out of it.

Vanilla 1 Type Style Version 1.0 Author jimw Downloads 1,967 Updated December 2006