Title: Joind.in WordPress Plugin
Author: lornajane
Published: <strong>April 12, 2010</strong>
Last modified: April 24, 2010

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Joind.in WordPress Plugin

 By [lornajane](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lornajane/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/joindin-sidebar-widget.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/joindin-sidebar-widget/)

## Description

This plugin is a sidebar widget which draws data from the joind.in website, or any
other site exposing the same API. Joind.in is an open source event management/feedback
site written in PHP – see [http://joind.in](http://joind.in).

Features: * sidebar widget * shows hot events or talks at a given event * customisable
title * database caching – avoid repeated and slow API calls to joind.in

## Installation

 1. Upload joindin.php to your plugins directory or install using the wizard
 2. On your plugins list, you should see it listed as “Joind.in”; activate it. Activation
    creates a new database table called wp_joindin which is used to cache data (if 
    you use a different table prefix it will pick this up).
 3. On the widgets screen you can now drag a joind.in widget onto your sidebar(s) and
    configure it. It has a title and also the URL of the joind.in site – only change
    this URL if you want to point to your own or an alternative installation of joind.
    in (it assumes the API is at /api/). Choose what your plugin should display. Hot
    events shows the upcoming events shown in the system. Talks for event shows a list
    of sessions for the event identified by the ID entered in the “event id” field (
    get this by viewing the event on the main website and taking the number from the
    URL). Finally you can limit how many records are displayed.

## FAQ

#### Can the plugin integrate with other sites?

Currently the plugin only works against the joind.in API. This is an open source
project so you can run another copy of the code and point your plugin to that if
you like, but no other APIs are supported.

#### How can I get other information from joind.in to display?

Comment on the plugin page what you want to do and why – someone may help!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Joind.in WordPress Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ lornajane ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lornajane/)

[Translate “Joind.in WordPress Plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joindin-sidebar-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/joindin-sidebar-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/joindin-sidebar-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/joindin-sidebar-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

#### 1.1

Correcting a PHP short tag – thanks to @phpcodemonkey for the bug report

#### 1.2

Fixing a **major** bug in this plugin, which registered the cron events repeatedly.
If you are upgrading please deactivate and reactivate your plugin after you upgrade!
Switching over to using the wordpress http handling rather than requiring curl (
thanks to James Collins who commented on my blog suggesting this)

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 * Tags
 * [Conference](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/conference/)[Event](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/event/)
   [session](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/session/)[talk](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/talk/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/joindin-sidebar-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ lornajane ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lornajane/)

## Support

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