On my other blog, i made a JS script that allows to add selected text on the comment box (after pressing Q). After redesign, i didn’t wanted to use that same old way, so i wrote a little plugin. Actually, you need some awesome imagination to name this plugin

Anyway, you can download this plugin from here and activate in the old fashion way (admin-> pluggins -> look for NtzAutoquote and press activate). How to use it? Very simple: select the text you want to quote and press Q key. In this way, you avoid to write over and over again <blockquote> </blockquote> when you want to quote some comments.

You want a demo? Try it right here! Select ANY text that you want, press Q and check out the textarea on the comment form With all these, there is a limitation tough: you can have only one textarea on your page. I did it in this way because some theme developers don’t keep the name/id’s on forms when they develop themes. If you have more than one textarea, ask here and i will be glat to help you.

Some weeks ago i needed a jQuery (yes, i’m a jQuery addicted!) plugin for basic star-rating system with ajax call. Because i wanted a minimum html markup, i start to wrote my own plugin, with a handy way to implement. Just drop this where you want to display stars:

<span class="rateThis" title="current=2.5;href=vote.php;id=1"></span>

Then call ntzRateThis on document load:

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$(document).ready(function(){
 $('.rateThis').ntzRateThis();
});

Easy, isn’t? You need to specify (in title):

current - current rate (accept float);
href - link for backend rating script (this script will return final rate after vote and also verify that is only one vote per day);
id - id of the element (for example, id of article that you want to rate).

That’s all. You still need to include css and javascript files (is in the ZIP file)

You can see a demo of this plugin here (you have a demo for rating only, backend script sends only random numbers, so the rate won’t be real!) and you can download from here.