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Thinkers is transforming.

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:02:21 +0000

Please excuse our mess as we we try to get everything in order.

We are currently working on fine tuning our bigger projects, which hopefully become the future of Thinkers. Innkeepers Journal is getting revamped with a relaunch in June, Innkeepers Directory is having the final touches and first few clients finished off, and finally Innkeepers Web Services continues to offer complete development and hosting services to our Bed and Breakfast clients.

The Thinkers.com site will continue to be hub for all of these sites, with occasional insightful and helpful blog posts and articles.

Review: MapPress WordPress Plugin

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:17:39 +0000

I stumbled across a great little plugin that takes advantage of the Google Maps API. The best part is you do not need to worry about any coding. Just install the plugin and add your points of interest (via address) and hey presto you have a functional map on your site, with the added feature of directions. It integrated very nicely in to our B&B web site.

It gives you the ability to add a map to either a page of a post. In my example we have added a few maps to some of the posts we have in the Attractions section.

So go take a look: MapPress Google Map Plugin

If your in your WordPress plugins section just search for “MapPress”.

Simple Sitemap Generator

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:51:42 +0000

I found this great little plugin to add a sitemap from a user perspective. It was extremely simple to setup. Just create a page, follow the instructions in the plugin, and hey presto a sitemap!

Get it here: PS Auto Sitemap

Catfish Ad Plugin

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:41:51 +0000

I have always loved the Catfish ad script that Alex Walker of SitePoint developed. I finally got it working on a site that is not WordPress driven, but which will be soon. I used the script copy from Matt Oakes in the UK.

I decided to ask Matt to help me develop a plugin for WordPress that would allow easy carefree installation of a Catfish Ad.

What we have here is a free, beta version of the resulting plugin. I have personally tested it on a number of my own WordPress sites. Please let me know if you have any issues with it and I will try and help resolve them.

You can check out a demo at my personal blog.

Download (Version 1.0 Release Date March 28th 2009)

I am now using the Wordpress Plugin Repository for managing the versions of this plugin.