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Author: cogmios

This plugin puts a recognizable icon before each link; it makes your website lively and recognizable: Compare listings of dull links to listings with an icon before it: users will instantly recognize the familiar icons to your benefit. Compare this with the desktop on your computer: 100 links in plain text or 100 links with app icons, what do you prefer? Exactly!

• Note 1: this plugin only supports PHP version 5.3 or later.
• Note 2: this plugin is still in BETA until it is at version 1.0
• Note 3: version 0.6.0 is the first one to split server and client functionality so may be atill a bit rough...

Features:

• (version 0.6.0) includes a server component and a client component, so you can have a single icon server
• add icons in content, widget areas, comment area and comment author link each with its own styling.
• add icons from scanning sites directly, their /favicon.ico, Google 2 and getIcon.org
• image filtes such as converting all icons to PNG
• add default icons, IDENTICON is included
• exclusion of filetypes: do not process pdf, zip etc...
• status icons showing you: good links, redirects and bad links (handy for cleaning)

Low Fat:

The server will search for an icon only every 30 seconds and in the meanwhile use Google so you will slowly build a good icon base. If you install the widget you should see new icons appearing every time your users hit a new one.

Developers:

• can add their own plugins for each of the modules provided:
• can add their own plugins to define pieces of content to filter
• can add plugins to the cache
• can add plugins for other favicon sources or repositories
• can add plugins for providing other default icons
• can add plugins for handling other filetypes content

The plugin uses a plugin framework (GPLv2) so you can also copy the framework and make your own plugin around it. If you have improvements on it please send them to me.

Languages:

The plugin is ready for internationalization but since I still intent to make a lot of changes full translation will happen in a later release.