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| Simple Twitter Connect 0.4 |
Author: Otto
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way youd like
Installation:
Upload the files to the /wp-content/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/ directory
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
faq:
Whoa, whats with all these plugins?
The principle behind this plugin is to enable small pieces of Twitter functionality, one at a time.
Thus, you have the base plugin, which does nothing except to enable your site for Twitter OAuth in general. Its required by all the other plugins.
Then you have individual plugins, one for each piece of functionality. One for enabling comments, one for adding Login, etc. These are all smaller and simpler, for the most part, because they dont have to add all the Twitter connections stuff that the base plugin adds.
The comments plugin isnt working!
You have to modify your theme to use the comments plugin.
In your comments.php file (or wherever your comments form is), you need to do the following.
Find the three inputs for the author, email, and url information. They need to have those IDs on the inputs (author, email, url). This is what the default theme and all standardized themes use, but some may be slightly different. Youll have to alter them to have these IDs in that case.
Just before the first input, add this code:
[div id="comment-user-details"]
[?php do_action(alt_comment_login); ?]
(Replace the []s with normal html greater/less than signs).
Just below the last input (not the comment text area, just the name/email/url inputs, add this:
[/div]
That will add the necessary pieces to allow the script to work.
Hopefully, a future version of WordPress will make this simpler.
Twitter Avatars look wrong.
Twitter avatars use slightly different code than other avatars. They should style the same, but not all themes will have this working properly, due to various theme designs and such.
However, it is almost always possible to correct this with some simple CSS adjustments. For this reason, they are given a special "twitter-avatar" class, for you to use to style them as you need. Just use .twitter-avatar in your CSS and add styling rules to correct those specific avatars.
Why cant I email people who comment using Twitter?
Twitter offers no way to get a valid email address for a user. So the comments plugin uses a fake address of the twitters username @fake.twitter.com. The "fake" is the giveaway here.
When users connect using Twitter on the Comments section, theres a delay before their info appears.
Yes. In order to make the plugin more compatible with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache, the data for a Twitter connect account is retreived from the server using an AJAX request. This means that there will be a slight delay while the data is retrieved, but the page has already been loaded and displayed. Most of the time this will not be noticable.
Why does the settings screen warn me that I dont have a URL shortener plugin?
Simple Twitter Connect does not implement a URL shortening service in favor of letting other plugins implement one for it. A shortener plugin should implement the "get_permalink" function for it to be detected.
The WordPress.com stats plugin implements this, and it provides shortlinks to "wp.me" URLs. If you wish to use another shortener plugin, tell that plugins author to implement this same standard, and the plugin will automatically be detected and used by Simple Twitter Connect.
The standard is "function get_shortlink($post_id)" where the function returns the shortlink as a string. This should be trivally easy to implement for any plugin author.
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| Mad Mimi for WordPress 1.2.1 |
Author: Katz Web Services, Inc.
Add Mad Mimi signup form to your WordPress website.
This plugin adds a newsletter signup form to your website in the content and the sidebar of your site
Installation:
Upload plugin files to your plugins folder, or install using WordPress built-in Add New Plugin installer
Activate the plugin
Go to the plugin settings page (under Settings > Mad Mimi)
Enter in your Mad Mimi Username (the accounts email address) and the API key. (Find your API Key at https://madmimi.com/user/edit)
Click Save Changes.
If the settings are correct, a link will appear to the widgets page (Appearance > Widgets). Follow it.
Drag the Mad Mimi Signup Form widget to a sidebar, and configure the form.
If you want the form to be embedded in content, instead of shown in the sidebar, check the checkbox for "Do not display widget in sidebar", then follow the instructions for inserting the shortcode into your content where you would like the form to be displayed.
faq:
Requires PHP5 for All Features
The plugin requires PHP5 for list management functionality. If your web host does not support PHP5, please contact your host and see if they can upgrade your PHP version; generally this is done at no cost.
What is the plugin license?
This plugin is released under a GPL license.
What is Mad Mimi?
Mad Mimi is the easiest email marketing tool out there. Its built from the ground up to be simple and usable. Learn more about Mad Mimi.
Do I need a Mad Mimi account to use this plugin?
Yes, this plugin requires a Mad Mimi account. Sign up for a free account here.
How do I use the new `apply_filters()` functionality? (Added 1.1)
If you want to change some code in the widget, you can use the WordPress add_filter() function to achieve this.
You can add code to your themes functions.php file that will modify the widget output. Heres an example:
function my_example_function($widget) {
// The $widget variable is the output of the widget
// This will replace this word with that word in the widget output.
$widget = str_replace(this word, that word, $widget);
// Make sure to return the $widget variable, or it wont work!
return $widget;
}
add_filter(mad_mimi_signup_form, my_example_function);
You can also modify the error message by hooking into mad_mimi_signup_form_error in a similar manner.
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| Dojo Skew Gallery 1.2.1 |
Author: Obaq
This is a plugin to create a photo gallery with a skewed style utilising Dojo Toolkits Ajax (http://www.dojotoolkit.org/).
Please have a look at the examples at
http://obaq.uuuq.com/?p=210
Installation:
*if you previously installed previous ver., please deactivate it
before installing ver 1.x.
Make sure PHP supports php-gd.
Extract all folder and files.
Modify config.php for the site path(if you installed WordPress under subdirectory, say "/wordpress/",
then the SITEPATH setting will be "/wordpress/". Normally, it is "/").
Also set for the password for deleting cached files(CHACHEDELPSW) if you dont like the default.
For the rest, GZIPDELIVER defines if javascript and a style sheet will be gzipped when sending to users browsers.
Set true to enable. (It may shorten the time to load the gallery but it may not be necessary if the web server supports gzip deflates.)
If PRELOADPHOTO is set as true, the browser will download the image files in advance. (Possibliy improving the page loading speed.)
If PRELOADDOJO is set as true, the dojo library scripts will be loaded before the main dojo script starts. (Possibly improve the page loading speed but may cause script errors in browser.)
GZIPDELIVER, PRELOADPHOTO, PRELOADDOJO are meant to improve the loading speed of a gallery. Each web environment differs from each other so you may experiment with those settings.
Upload the extracted folder and its contents to /wp-content/plugins/.
Make cache folder writable by the web server with permission 777 or equivalent.
Go to the Plugins menu of your admin area and activate the plugin.
Please kindly let me know by posting at http://obaq.uuuq.com/?p=210
if you encounter any problem.
faq:
How to insert a dojo skew gallery onto the post?
On the text area, insert a code in the format of
[dojoskew]Title;Description;Width;HeadColor;HeadTextColor;BGColor;PhotoDetailsBGColor;PhotoNameTextColor;PhotoDescTextColor;
PhotoName1;PhotoDescription1;PhotoPath1;Link1;
PhotoName2;PhotoDescription2;PhotoPath2;Link2;
PhotoName3;PhotoDescription3;PhotoPath3;Link3[/dojoskew]
where
Title: the title for the gallery.
Description: the description of the gallery.
*These info shows up as a pop up when you click on a question mark(?) sign on the upper right of the gallery.
Width: the width for the gallery. However, it may not take an effect on some themes.
HeadColor: the color for the gallery header.
HeadTextColor: the color for the text of the gallery header.
BGColor: the background color of the gallery.
PhotoDetailsBGColor: the background color for the photo details column.
PhotoNameTextColor: the color for the text of the photo name.
PhotoDescTextColor: the color for the text of the photo description.
*if those values are not input, the default values will be set.
PhotoName1: the name of a photo, no changing line allowed.
PhotoDescription1: the description for the photo, no changing line allowed.
PhotoPath1: the path to the photo location at your site. Please place photos somewhere under wp-content/ or
the images folder with in this plugin folder. So the path would be wp-content/somefolder/photo1.jpg or images/photo1.jpg.
*photos with .jpg, .png and .gif can be used.
*you may put URL(http://...) if your web server can allow you to access the outside URL via PHP.
Link1: a URL link associated with the photo. It will link to the original photo if you leave it blank.
The above format is same for PhotoName2 ~ PhotoName3.
*you could put as many photos as you want but too many photos can easily results in a slow-loaing page or corrupted images.
(may 7 to 10 photos would be better.)
*Please notice that each values are separated by ;.
*It is better to use HTML editing mode when inserting the code.
*The color customisation could mostly work but please kindly understand that this gallery may not be confortable with some themes. Be flexible and you can take the most of it!
The below example code will create a gallery of 13 images with customised colors.
Each photo linked to themselves.
[dojoskew]The Gallery;created by Obaq;100%;navy;lightblue;blue;white;black;black;
Atlantis;this is a map of the lost empire.;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Atlantis.jpg;;
Dupont HDR;an hdr photo;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Dupont-HDR.jpg;;
Full Moon;a full moon;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Full_Moon_Luc_Viatour.jpg;;
Gachapin;Gachapin!;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gachapin.jpg;;
HDR Ball;an hdr photo example;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HDR_ball.jpg;;
Hyoerborea;a mythical land in north;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hyperborea4.jpg;;
Join Tech JE100;an e-book;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/jointech_je100.jpg;;
Namahage;Namahage!;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/namahage.gif;;
Necronomicon;a fictional grimoire;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Necronomicon_prop.jpg;;
obaQ;obaQ with an ice cream cup!;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Obaq_3D_02.jpg;;
Pandas;Pandas!;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pandas.jpg;;
Persepolis;a ancient ceremonial capital;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Persepolis_hdr.jpg;;
Trencin;an hdr photo;wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Trencin_hdr_001.jpg;
[/dojoskew]
How many photos can I insert?
Theoretically, as many as you want. But in the reality, many photos can results in longer processing time, downloading time and so on.
7 to 10 photos may be better. You can experiment.
How large the file size of a photo can be?
The gallery displays a photo of width:300px and height:303px at the front.
All photos will processed and cached to fit the skew gallery and a large-size photo can easily get corrupted when processing.
You could experiment but you may resize the original photos well under 1MB each.
Is there any way to clear cache files?
point to the clear.php in the dojo-skew-gallery folder from your browser to clear the cached files.
Input the password which is set in config.php
The images seem to be corrupted
The cache files are corrupted. Please kindly clear the cache as described above and re-try.
How many galleries can I put on the page?
At this moment, only one gallery on one page. If you put more than one, it doesnt work!
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