rating: ****
usefulness: 10
ease of use: 10
minimum user level: novice
download: Quick Look Droplet (677 downloads)

I’ve tested it with Safari, Firefox, and Windows Internet Explorer.

In order for this theme to appear any differently from the original Kubrick, you need to have the dymanic tabs plugin installed and activated, and your tabs set up. Click here to find out how.

Kubrick tabs is meant as an example to show what can be done with the dtabs plugin. Only minor alterations to style.css and header.php have been made to the default Wordpress theme (Kubrick), and the addition of style_ie_fixes.css, images/tab_left.jpg, images/tab_unselected_left.jpg, images/tab_central, images/tab_unselected_central, images/tab_right, images/tab_unselected_right, and images/tabbar.jpg. Therefore the “working” of the theme should not be affected, but if you experience any problems unique to Kubrick tabs, then please reply to this post for support. Kubrick is developed by the Wordpress team, so any support needed with Kubrick should be pointed towards the Wordpress forums.

Download Kubrick tabs (48KB) (2355 downloads)

History

Version 1.5

• Updated to support dTabs 1.3

Version 1.5

• Tweaked header image to match original dimensions
• Set tab width to auto ajust to fit contents

Version 1.4

• Updated to Wordpress Default theme 1.6 shipped with WP 2.3
• Added support for disabling dTabs plugin

Version 1.3

• Updated to support dTabs 1.0.1

Version 1.2

• Updated to the latest version of Wordpress Default theme released with WP 2.1
• Updated to support drop down menus introduced in dTabs version 1

Version 1.1

• Added support for custom headers (introduced with WP 2.0.5)
• Added full support for Windows Internet Explorer including IE7

Version 1.0

• Initial release.

• Description
• Recent Changes
• Requirements
• Installation
• Updating
• Uninstallation and deactivation
• Themes pre-enabled for dTabs
• Adding dTabs to your theme
• Example
• Download
• Donate
• Known Issues
• Future
• History
• Support and Feedback

Description

Provides a function to output a user controled dynamically tabbed navigation system with optional drop down menus in Wordpress. Basically, it makes adding dynamic tabs to your Wordpress blog/theme easy.

…more info

• dTabs can be easily added as an option in themes.
• Tabs can be made for the posts page, the front page, individual posts, categories, pages, the archives, the bookmarks, and external links.
• Tabs for categories and pages have optional dropdown menus of their sub-categories/sub-pages, while archives and bookmarks have non-optional drop down menus.
• Tabs are set up by the user via administrator preferences, while their properties and appearance can either be set by the user via administrator preferences or within the theme’s css.

Recent Changes

Version 1.4 24/07/2009

• Moved admin panel from Tools to Options.
• Added option to disable links for tabs (Suggested by Elody).
• Added option to make tabbar a class instead of id for use with multiple tabbars (Suggested by Mor).
• Updated default css for use with tabbar class.
• Added first and last classes to respective tabs (Suggested by johnho).
• Implemented hierarchical dropdown boxes for categories and pages when editing a tab.
• Increased use of internal WP functions to reduce calls to the database and speed up dTabs.
• Updated implementation of metaboxes to work with WP 2.8.
• Fixed Uninstall dTabs button to work with WP 2.8.

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Requirements

As of version 1.2, dTabs requires Wordpress Version 2.5 or greater for full functionality.

Installation

1. Extract dtabs.zip on your local machine.
2. Upload dtabs.php to your Wordpress Plugins directory.
3. Activate dTabs in the Plugins section of the admin control panel.

Please note that if your theme is not pre-enabled for dTabs you need to paste a snippet of code into your theme before your tabs will appear on your blog, alternatively/in addition you could ask your theme’s author to pre-enable your theme.

Updating

To update follow the instructions for installation, writing over the old dtabs.php in your plugin directory.

Uninstallation and deactivation

To uninstall dTabs, click on uninstall on the Manage > Tabs admin panel. This will remove all of dTabs’ settings and deactivate the plugin, if you would like to keep your settings for future use, then simply deactivate dTabs on the Plugins admin panel as you would any other plugin.

Themes pre-enabled for dTabs

Kubrick tabs

Please feel free to add any more themes to list by commenting on this post .

Adding dTabs to your theme

To insert the tabs into a theme which is not pre-enabled, just copy and paste the code below into a template file corrisponding with where you wish your tabs to appear (most people will probable use header.php). The only requirement is that it is placed within the body html tags (ie somewhere after the <body> tag in header.php, before the </body> tag in footer.php, or anywhere in any other template file).

<?php if (function_exists('dtab_list_tabs')) { dtab_list_tabs(); } ?>

If the dTabs plugin is activated, this code will output your tabs. If it is not then it does nothing, your theme will display as normal, (minus your dynamic tabs).

The only thing left to do is add css formatting to your tabs and drop down menus, mainly so that a) the selected tabs are displaid differently to the non-selected tabs, b) that the drop down menus are positioned correctly in relation to their tabs, and c) that the tabs are displayed on the same line (ie if you want a horizontal navigation menu).

A good starting point for this is checking out the CSS section on the Manage Tabs admin preference pane. Ticking Automatic css generation will display some example css for you to work on. While the box is ticked the css will automatically be inserted into the header of every page in your blog. If you are pre-enabling a theme for public release then you will need to insert the css for the tabs into your theme’s css file.

The tabs will appear in your html as a list of links in the following format:

The links will be wrapped within <ul> tags with a class of tabbar:

<ul class="tabbar">
	<li class="tabselected"><a href="Tab1 URL/Path/Permalink" id="tab1_tab">Tab1 Label</a></li>
	<li class="tab"><a href="Tab2 URL/Path/Permalink" id="tab2_tab">Tab2 Label</a></li>
	<li class="tab"><a href="Tab3 URL/Path/Permalink" id="tab3_tab">Tab3 Label</a></li>
</ul>

By default this will create an unordered list of tabs – a vertical dynamically tabed navigation system.

dtab_list_tabs() has six parameters which enable you to modify it’s output:
dtab_list_tabs('before=&after=&between=&fadetype=js&fadetime=500&outputjs=1tabbar=id')

• before
  (string) Optional: text/html to place before each link. There is no default.
• after
  (string) Optional: text/html to place after each link. There is no default.
• between
  (string) Optional: text/html to place between each list-item (tab). There is no default.
• fadetype
  (string) Optional: js or css. The default is js, css is not currently supported in IE.
• fadetime
  (numeric) Optional: the length of time in milliseconds over which menus should fade in and out. The default is 500. This parameter is only taken into acount if fadetype is unchanged or set to js.
• outputjs
  (boolean) Optional: 1 outputs javascript with the tabs, 0 doesn’t (so that a javascript file can be included with the theme, which is more efficient than sending it with each page). The default is 1. This parameter is only taken into acount if fadetype is unchanged or set to js.
• tabbar
  (boolean) Optional: class is the default and gives the unordered list of tabs a class of “tabbar”. id also gives the unordered list of tabs an id of “tabbar” aswell as the default class of “tabbar”.

Any drop down menus will simply be a list of links to any subcategories for that tab enclosed in div tags with a class of “dmenu” and an id of “tab name_menu” eg:

<div class="dmenu" id="Downloads_menu">
<ul>
	<li><a href="subcategory 1 url">subcategory 1 name</a></li>
	<ul>
		<li><a href="subcategory 1.1 url">subcategory 1.1 name</a></li>
		<li><a href="subcategory 1.2 url">subcategory 1.2 name</a></li>
	</ul>
	<li><a href="subcategory 2 url">subcategory 2 name</a></li>
	<li><a href="subcategory 3 url">subcategory 3 name</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

To check for the name of the current tab (using a pre-enabled or manually enabled theme with the dTab plugin installed and activated) take a look at the source of any post/page/category/etc and the name of the current tab will be contained in a comment just below the html for your tabs.

Examples

• The tabs on this site were made and are managed using dTabs.
• Kubrick tabs – a Kubrick (WP’s default theme) pre-enabled for dTabs

For examples of slightly more advanced css than that in the Tabs Options pannel, take a look at the css files in Kubrick tabs or on this site (style.css/style.css.php).

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Known Issues

I have experienced problems after restoring my database from a backup. This problem is due to the way in which Wordpress stores data for plugins and how certain scripts export this data when making backups. There isn’t much I can do to prevent it, but the problem can be fixed by reseting your tabs.

Future

Any suggestions? Let me know

History

Downloads Per Day

Version 1.4 24/07/2009

• Moved admin panel from Tools to Options.
• Added option to disable links for tabs (Suggested by Elody).
• Added option to make tabbar a class instead of id for use with multiple tabbars (Suggested by Mor).
• Updated default css for use with tabbar class.
• Added first and last classes to respective tabs (Suggested by johnho).
• Implemented hierarchical dropdown boxes for categories and pages when editing a tab.
• Increased use of internal WP functions to reduce calls to the database and speed up dTabs.
• Updated implementation of metaboxes to work with WP 2.8.
• Fixed Uninstall dTabs button to work with WP 2.8.

Version 1.3 05/07/2008 (11006 downloads)

• Fixed problem with default css in Firefox 2 where tabs always appear on seperate lines (reported by G Dan Mitchell and fixed by Ian Brown).
• Added “between” argument for dtab_list_tabs for adding content between tabs.
• Added “fadetime” argument for dtab_list_tabs to enable control over the length of time it takes to fade menus and add the option of disabling fading all together.
• Fixed flickering of dropdown menus in certain circumstances.
• Added provisional (not suported by IE) support for javascript free css menus .
• Added “fadetype” argument for dtab_list_tabs for switching to javascript free menus.
• Updated default css to support javascript free css menus.
• Added auto css for javascript free css layered menus.

Version 1.2.2 29/04/2008 (1909 downloads)

• Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.2.1 that prevented tabs with non-word characters in their name being selected (reported by Joy).

Version 1.2.1 20/04/2008 (456 downloads)

• Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.2 that prevented menus fading out for tabs with non-word characters in their name (Reported by Mike and Morgan).

Version 1.2 02/04/2008 (664 downloads)

• Improved improved support for static front pages
• Updated javascript to properly support Safari 3 (and dropped support for Safari 2)
• Updated javascript to fade drop down menus in and out
• Made javascript output optional (so a javascript file can be included with themes)
• Depreciated dtabs_echo_dtabs, replaced with dtabs_list_tabs
• Removed Tabs Options pannel
• Moved automatic CSS generation option to Manage Tabs Panel
• Dropped before and after admin options
• Rewrote default CSS, making it more complex but producing half decent looking tabs
• Used register_activation_hook to set up tabs upon activation
• Introduced activation message
• Introduced ability to uninstall
• Integrated into WP 2.5 UI
• Made other minor changes to streamline the interface

Version 1.1 18/12/2007 (1045 downloads)

• Added full support for static front pages
• Added suport for automatic update checking
• Prepared for internationalisation
• Fixed several empty array bugs (reported by Joost Verweij and others)

Version 1.0.4 16/10/2007 (390 downloads)

• Fixed ambiguity bug (reported by Julian) introduced with 1.0.3
• Fixed a bug also introduced with 1.0.3 that prevented dTabs from recognising sub categories

Version 1.0.3 15/10/2007 (6 downloads)

• Added support for WP 2.3

Verson 1.0.2 – 17/08/2007 (240 downloads)

• Fixed the zero bug (reported by Gregg Mendez) where in certain circumstances a “0″ was added within tabs’ links tags – invalidating the html.
• Fixed the slashes bug (reported by AJ) so slashes are stripped from tab labels
• Rearranged the order of tags for tabs so that before and after parameters are applied within the list item tags, to enable Gina’s suggestion to allow tabs to stretch and expand – i.e. dynamic css.
• Minor update to default css

Verson 1.0.1 – 03/04/2007 (496 downloads)

• Fixed behaviour for page tabs so that they cannot be confused with categories of the same id number.
• Put tabs in an unordered list – replacing the <div> tags with <ul>s and <span> tags with <li>s.

Verson 1.0 – 09/02/2007 (479 downloads)

• Added simple dynamic menu functionality – tabs that link to categories and pages can have a css/javascript drop down menu listing any subcategories, sub-pages, archives, or bookmarks in a hierarchal tree.
• Fixed the problem with the default tab present upon installation or after resetting the tabs so that it can be selected.
• Fixed the bug caused by database changes brought in with WP 2.1 (reported by James) where pages were no longer listed in the Modify > Tabs admin pannel.
• Added ability to make tabs for pages, subcategories, archives, and bookmarks (previously it was only super-parent categories and pages).
• Improved the method by which the current tab is selected – now all tabs linking to the current page/post/category and it’s parents are taken into consideration, and the closest match is selected.

Verson 0.911 – 14/08/2006 (645 downloads)

• Fixed behaviour for blog/main page tab so that it can be selected and so the link points towards the blogs web address (instead of the website’s root directory).

Verson 0.91 – 06/06/2006 (327 downloads)

• Added options > Tabs admin panel, with the following features:
  • Optional automatic (basic) css generation/example.
  • Optional automatic css output into any theme.
  • Option to create vertical tab interface (as opposed to horizontal by default).
  • The ability to add html before and after each tab (just like you can in the templates).
• Also added the option to control the formatting of selected and non selected tabs using their id instead of class, allowing the custom formatting for each tab.

Verson 0.9 – 10/03/2006 (28 downloads)

• Update to manage > Tabs admin panel, including the addition of a drop down list of available tabs to make setting the plugin up as easy as possible.
• Fixed behaviour with categories: current tab now reflects the parent category instead of the current category.

Verson 0.8 – 09/02/2006 (10 downloads)

• Initial release

If you would like to request any particular features for this plugin then feel free to leave a comment. Please note that while I will try my best to help, development of the plugin is very time consuming so unless it’s a tiny adjustment don’t expect any fast results

Support and Feedback

If you’re having any problems or need any help then please feel free to reply to this post for support regarding any aspect of dTabs.

If you’re using dtabs successfully than I’d love to hear about it! Reply to this topic or send an email to dtabs [at] dynamictangentconceptions.dtcnet.co.uk .

Description

Allows Wordpress plugins to automatically check for updates without them needing to be stored in the WP Plugin Repository.

Download apuc_v1.zip (8KB) (592 downloads)

You may be wondering I made this plugin when WP automatically checks for plugin updates anyway. I’ve been thinking of including this functionality in dTabs for quite a while now, but I stopped development when it was annouced that WP 2.3 would support update checking. However it has become apparent since it’s release that WP 2.3 can only check for updates for plugins stored in the WP Plugin Repository (i.e. GPL only) so I decidied that I would prefer to retain control over my plugin and develop the functionality for myself. I was orginally planning to simply include this as a part of dTabs, but as it grew in complexity and size I decided that it should be an optional componant which other plugins could be free to use.

User info

So why should I install this plugin?

To recieve a notification when enabled plugins have updates.

How do I know whether the pluggins I use support update checking?

Check the list of plugins on the Updates subpanel of the Plugins admin panel, all enabled plugins are listed here.

What should I do if a particular plugin does not support update checking?

Try politely requesting that the plugin author take a look at this page and point out that they only need add one line to the plugin file and host a small text file in order to support checking for updates

Won’t it take up loads of resources and slow down my blog!?

The plugin only checks for updates upon viewing the admin panel, so it won’t affect your readers at all. It adheres to a strict schedule checking for updates of each plugin at predefined intervals to minimise it’s use of resources, but inevitably it may add the odd millisecond to the loading time of admin pages.

How is my privacy protected?

APUC downloads data regarding the latest release of a plugin from a server and compares it to the installed version locally, so that no information regarding you or your blog and it’s setup is sent anywhere.

Developer info

Why should my plugin support APUC?

To notify it’s users of new releases – helping to ensure everyone is up-to-date and therefore minimising support requests for old versions, while maintaining control over the storage and distribution of your plugin. It’s a cliché, but I guess the question is why should you not support APUC, since all it takes is the addition of one line of text to your main plugin file and for you to host a text file containg the latest version number. Easy!

Requirements

This plugin requires Wordpress Version 2.3 or greater.

Installation

1. Extract apuc_v1.zip on your local machine.
2. Upload apuc.php to your Wordpress Plugins directory.
3. Activate Automactic Plugin Update Checker in the Plugins section of the admin control panel.

How to enable automatic update notifications in your plugin

Simply add Version Check URI to the top of your main plugin file (after Autor URI) which points to a readable file (e.g. a html file) containing the following
Latest version: 1.1
(obviously insert the actual latest version number)
The only requirement is that your version number is in the form of major.minor[.revision[.build]] etc (basically as many or as few numbers separated by full stops as you like), and this has to match the version number in the top of your main plugin file. The plugin then simply compares this version number to that of the installed version and alerts the user when an update is available, providing a link to the plugin URI as specified in the main plugin file.

Alternatively you can specify a specific download URI along with the latest version, but this is completely optional:
Latest version: 1.1
Download URI: http://www.yourpluginuri.com

Additionally you can specify a schedule for update checking (again completely optional):
Next check value: 10
Next check unit: days
Next check unit can be set to days, weeks, or months. If you don’t set either of these values, the plugin will automatically check for updates after one day, one week, one month, and then every three months.

Download apuc_v1.zip (8KB) (592 downloads)

Donate

However, please note (in the nicest possible way) that making a donation will not guarantee the inclusion or development of a particular feature (it probably won’t hurt either though ).

Known Issues

Let me know

Future

Any ideas welcome!

History

Version 1 18/12/2007

• Initial release

If you would like to request any particular features for this plugin then feel free to reply to topic or send an email to apucsupport[at]dynamictangentconceptions.dtcnet.co.uk . Please note that while I will try my best to help, development of the plugin is very time consuming so unless it’s a tiny adjustment don’t expect any fast results

Support and Feedback

If you’re having any problems or need any help then please feel free to reply to this post for support regarding any aspect of the APUC.

I no longer support this plugin, but feel free to leave comments.

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