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Regional Support

The plugin has been coded to support different regional languages, however the langage files have not been created yet.

Let me know if you are interested and we can work together to make it work in your language.

Technical section

The plugin will create an extra table in your wordpress database to store the latest feed updates, this will be called links_rss with the prefix for your database e.g. wp_links_rss

A Cron (schedule) is created to run every 30 minutes and process links. Note that Cron in WordPress depends on hits, your WordPress website receives. So playing with this plugin within an offline environment (MAMP, XAMPP, WAMP etc.) without anyone or anything triggering the scheduling by sending requests to the WordPress page won't produce any results if you do not trigger it by yourself.

References

A selection of places I've found help for this plugin.

Thanks also to Ozh, Roland Rust and for their explainations and examples

Admin UI

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Menus#Page_Hook_Suffix
• http://wpengineer.com/1295/meta-links-for-wordpress-plugins/
• http://www.code-styling.de/english/how-to-use-wordpress-metaboxes-at-own-plugins
• http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/02/wordpress-snippet-add_meta_box/
• http://wptheming.com/2011/08/admin-notices-in-wordpress/
• http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/improving-security-in-wordpress-plugins-using-nonces

Ajax

• http://return-true.com/2010/01/using-ajax-in-your-wordpress-theme-admin/
• http://amiworks.co.in/talk/simplified-ajax-for-wordpress-plugin-developers-using-jquery/
• http://xplus3.net/2008/10/16/jquery-and-ajax-in-wordpress-plugins-administration-pages/
• http://www.garyc40.com/2010/03/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/

Database

• http://createmy.com.au/connecting-your-plugin-to-the-wordpress-database/
• http://webjawns.com/2009/08/the-wordpress-wpdb-class-explained/

Scheduling

• http://wpseek.com/source/wp/latest/nav.html?wp-includes/cron.php.html
• Ideas on background processing from the broken link checker

Settings

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API - new way to handle options/settings
• http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/
• http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/05/handling-plugins-options-in-wordpress-28-with-register_setting/
• http://wpengineer.com/2139/adding-settings-to-an-existing-page-using-the-settings-api/
• http://blog.gneu.org/2010/09/intro-to-the-wordpress-settings-api/
• http://alisothegeek.com/2011/01/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial-1/

RSS Feeds

• http://jaewon.mine.nu/jaewon/2010/10/30/how-to-make-your-wordpress-a-rss-reader/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime
• http://simplepie.org/