As someone who regularly sets up WordPress sites for clients, often with bespoke themes and various plugins installed, I find it useful and helpful to include basic instructions for them. I used to send a text document to them by email when I handed the site over, but more recently have been including an instructions page as a tab in WordPress.
This plugin allows you to create a custom instructions page for a wordpress blog. Especially useful for those setting up WordPress sites for other people. You can use it to provide instructions for use of specific plugins etc.
Installation:
- Upload the wp_instructions folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins page.
Usage:
To create your custom instructions simply edit the instructions.txt file in the wp_instructions folder. You can use html if you want. Numbered lists are a good format for giving step-by -step instructions.
Handy Tip:
As pointed out by David A (See comments for this post) you can use WordPress to create an instructions page and save it as private. You can then copy and paste the code from the code view of the WP text editor into the plugin's instructions.txt file, thus creating an html formatted instructions page without having to write any html yourself.
Download:
Works great - thank you!
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Is there a newer version than 0.1? I upgraded to WordPress 2.6.1 and the Plugins area is telling me that there is a new version, but the new version links to:
GALLERY LIGHTBOX PLUGIN
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-25-gallery-lightbox-plugin/
Also, just an FYI, version 0.1 now conflicts with the Subscribe2 plugin.
Very handy little plug-in, works like a charm, thanks.
I’m experiencing a little weirdness, though. I downloaded it from your site. When I install it, it works fine but I get an alert telling me there’s a new version 1.3 (the code says “Version 0.1″) and the link to get the new version points at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-25-gallery-lightbox-plugin/ which is clearly wrong. The “Upgrade automatically” option doesn’t work either, with the error mentioning wp-25-gallery.
Since it works, the only reason I care is I don’t want the little orange flag over “Plugins” in my dashboard, but seems like something you’d want to know.
wordpress 2.5
not working for me, i made the two changes , name and email to the php file, verified the changes were saved in the php file, but it continues to send wordpress and wordpress@domain
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Great Job!
THX !!!
Hi
IS the email address restricted to the domain of the website? OR can any email address be used, say gmail account?
Hi
This appears like it will do the (magik) trick but I have an unusual situation in which the email address my client wants for default does not use the website’s domain name in it. So simply setting the name in front of the @ symbol is not sufficient - and neither is my confidence in editing your php to accomodate it. Could write up a note on how this customization in the php file would go?
Sorry for the xtra trouble. Really appreciate your efforts with this as you can imagine.
/marco
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I had no idea this was even an issue. I thought that it would just show up with my email by default. That’s dumb.
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Made the changes in the plugin editor, added my From Name and the from Address, updated changes and nothing happened. Still coming from Wordpress
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This is a life saver. We were testing the site and discovered the “wordpress@”. We knew we didn’t want that. Wordpress really need to allow users to change this from the dashboard. But anyway, this works perfectly and I wanted to thank you Sam for sharing your expertise with us.
Thanks for the plugin.
Works Great!!!!! Thanks!!!
Hi,
Thanks for your great plugin. I were used it in my blog, it run so cool. But i have a problem with my language. I use Vietnamese language and the email appear: [Tranh biếm há» a Việt Nam] Có thà nh viên má»›i đăng kÃ
Can you help me this problem?
Thanks!
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Hi, I used the plugin, but it turns all non-latin characters into weird characeters (for example: é is é or ř is Å™). Do you know how to solve it?
Thank you very much.
Great
thanhk you sam
Awesome plugin, guys! Works like a charm, and solves a problem I was afraid would be very tedious.
Thanks a lot ! Very useful !
Same as the others, i have problem with some signs. I try to write the norwegian letter “ø/ø” (ascii ø), but i cant get it to work
Hi there, this is a very helpful plugin, I have the same problems with the charset or something else. After installing the plugin I always receive weird characters in my mails. ÖÄÜ are not transformed properly. Thanks. F
Great, thanks for the plugin…If you all are looking for a less extensible…but easier way to modify the email “From” line in wordpress, it’s on line 352 in pluggable.php. Just change [code]$from_name = ‘WordPress’;[/code] to something like…[code]$from_name = ‘Mike’;[/code]
I am using WP MU 2.9.2. I have installed the plugin and activated successfully. Yet I dont see any settings to configure !!!??
i love this plug in very much.thanx
give thanx!
Hey, thanks for this plugin, helped me sort out a really annoying reg problem I had
thank y
Great plug-in, just what I was looking for as I didn’t want any emails say “wordpress”
thanx!
Worked like a charm. Another little irritating item solved. Thanks!
worked. highly recommend. thank you!
how to edit manual?
I loaded the plug in but can’t find it in the plugin list.
Can not convert to UTF-8!
Thanks for sharing works fine on wordpress 3.1.1
Fantastic solution! Minimal effort needed to make this work from a novice’s standpoint!