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AlternativeTo Widget

Author URI: http://alternativeto.net Plugin URI: http://blog.alternativeto.net Plugin to show information about an application and it's top alte

Note! Requires in the header.php file.

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page. Or just install the plugin from the repository.

Then add [alt2app app=application-name category=software] to add the widget where you added the shortcode.

The "application-name" is the name of the application the exact same way as the url to the app on AlternativeTo. For example Adobe Photoshop has the url.

http://alternativeto.net/desktop/adobe-photoshop/

Then the application name is "adobe-photoshop".

You can also use filter for license and platform.

  • License filters: free,opensource and commercial. If you use free all applications that has Free, Open Source, Free with limited functionality and Free for personal use will be listed. Open Source and Commercial just list the items that has these licenses.
  • Platform filter: You can filter by multiple platforms but they will do a OR query. So if you send in windows|linux we will give you all items that is Windows OR Linux.

More Examples:

  • [alt2app app=runkeeper category=software platform=blackberry|iphone]
  • [alt2app app=runkeeper category=software license=free]
  • [alt2app app=internet-explorer category=software license=opensource platform=linux]

Requires: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.1
Last Updated: 2013-3-11
Downloads: 613

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