Styling Ninja Forms is super easy but you still need to know how to mess around with CSS. That’s why we started posting these. We take a basic contact form and style various ways. If you like one that we’ve done feel free to take the CSS below and add it to your own site. These are a great jumping off point for you to create a uniquely style form for yourself so have fun.
Get the settings and CSS after the jump…
Half of the WP Ninjas are at WordCamp Atlanta today and tomorrow. I tell you this in case you send us an email or submit a support ticket and wonder why our responses aren’t as fast as usual. Of course we will still attempt to be as lightening fast as our customers have come to expect but in case we aren’t able to get to you immediately it’s because half of us are working on an update for Ninja Forms and I’m at WordCamp. :)
Great stuff coming around the corner but I hope everyone has a great weekend.
This site is still very much under construction as we are deciding what services we want to focus on and what kind of content we want to share. One of the most important pieces of content is information about our products. The problem is that these don’t always necessitate the formality of an entire blog post. So we created a solution…
If you have a product or products that you simply love and want the inside scoop of every single release and the inside info about it’s future development then we have a solution. Visit our Mailing Lists page and subscribe to only ones you care about and get the latest and greatest info delivered right to your email.
These lists are double opt-in and give you the opportunity to manage your subscriptions with us at bottom of every newsletter you receive.
What are you waiting for? Subscribe right away so you don’t miss the next important update.
To date our freshman plugin has been downloaded 6,600 times. We’ve received a bunch of emails asking about it and it’s future. Well, today we are proud to announce that the future is here.
Ninja Announcements is available both as a Lite and a Pro version and either version is more than enough to handle most sites needs. This WordPress Plugin for your announcement needs gives you the power to choose when, where, and to whom your announcements are presented.
If you want to schedule an announcement to be displayed on your site for a specific time period, day of the week, or even specific time of the day, Ninja Announcements gives you the control that you need. But this is only the start of what Ninja Announcements can do.
The types of uses you might have for Ninja Announcements are only limited by your imagination and the exciting thing is…there’s a lot more to come.
We thought it would be fun and perhaps helpful to provide some examples of styling Ninja Forms for your website. We will post a bunch of these over time just to give you an example of what you could be doing and if you like one you can lift the css below and use it on your own site. Check it all out after the jump.
The WP Ninjas will be at WordCamp Atlanta next month, half of us anyways. We don’t get to attend very many because of our schedules but I’m really looking forward to meeting some new great WordPress people and perhaps discover some things I hadn’t thought about yet.
If you are going to be there shoot me a tweet at @jameslaws so that we can connect in person.
I could write all day about why this protest is important but better people than I have already done so, so instead of reinventing the wheel I will list some resources for you to check out.
The main point is this. Tomorrow, January 18th at 8AM until 8PM wpninjas.net will be unavailable. We will simply display a message and info about the protest. Many, many other sites a lot larger than us will also be participating so don’t be surprised if some sites that you frequent are unavailable. This will demonstrate the kind of internet that these two pieces of legislature will offer. Below is a video and some links to educate yourself on the issue at hand.
For customers of the WP Ninjas, there will be a link for you to log-in and get support if needed so this should not affect you in any way.
Even though it’s the holidays we’ve been working hard with some new plugins. Two new WordPress plugins to be exact. We hope to have them ready before the close of 2011.
UPDATE: Do to a recent unfortunate personal event we have not been able to complete these plugins. Be looking for them next week.
This is already a free plugin in the WordPress Repository but it’s getting a fresh update of code and UI. We are also adding a ton of new features for our PRO version.
This plugin make it easy to create announcements outside the flow of you usual blog posts. That can be set to show and hide on a specific schedule, display conditionally on specific content, and be placed anywhere within your template or widget areas, and much more.
And of course we will be dreaming up many more features in the future.
This plugin is a collection of various functionality that we’ve needed on many projects and I suspect so have many of you.
Things like adding category, tag, or excerpt abilities to your pages. Adding pages to category or tag archives. Or easily displaying children pages on their parent like an archive. These and many, many more features are coming in this very simple but very handy plugin.
Be looking for these over the next week and Happy Holidays to everyone.
We we redesigned the site for our new business structure one of the things we needed was an eCommerce solution. Our needs were pretty simple but perhaps pretty specific as well. We were looking for the following (some may be outside the realm of a basic eCommerce solution):
That was about it. The first two are pretty basic and the last might be a more specialized case. We tried several plugins as to not reinvent the wheel but found most of them to be either very buggy, bloated, or just plain broken. Some might have worked but we would have had to dug through all the code to figure out how to make it do what we actually needed. This led us to a simple conclusion; we needed to build our own.
So quick and dirty I threw something together that does everything we needed. But now, after all that work, we think it would be nice to build on it and release a fully functional eCommerce plugin. Here is where you come in.
In the comments share your opinions of what should or shouldn’t be in such a plugin? What frustrations have you encountered when trying to implement an eCommerce solution? What kinds of things would describe a complete success in such a solution?
We want to build this for you and so what you want is the most important thing.
We are excited to announce that late last night Ninja Forms Lite was made available in the WordPress Plugin Repository. This is a fully working version of Ninja Forms minus a few more advanced features that have been implemented or that are coming in future releases.
If you want to build great web forms for almost any purpose with an easy drag and drop interface, store the data submitted and export it as needed, and much more, then this is a the perfect WordPress plugin for you.
If this is all you need, look no further but if you are looking for more robust features take a look at Ninja Forms Pro. Think of the lite version as a great opportunity to try before you buy without any real limitations.
We hope you like it.
