Title: Poetry
Author: Julian Yanover
Published: <strong>March 16, 2009</strong>
Last modified: February 18, 2013

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# Poetry

 By [Julian Yanover](https://profiles.wordpress.org/julianyanover/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/poetry.1.1.zip)

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

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## Description

Through a Widget or a simple function call this plugin will show random poems from
a list of 50 poets in your sidebar, obtained from mypoeticside.com.
 You can choose
which poets to display while using the widget option, being in total over 6500 possible
poems.

## Installation

 1. Unzip the file
 2. Upload the poetry folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. If you want to use the plugin with the widget option, go to Appearance -> Widgets
    to configure the widget, or if you want to use the function directly on your theme,
    you should place the code: where you want to show the random poem, for example 
    in your sidebar.php

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Poetry” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this 
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Julian Yanover ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/julianyanover/)

[Translate “Poetry” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/poetry)

### Interested in development?

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## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 * Tags
 * [literature](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/literature/)[poems](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/poems/)
   [poetry](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/poetry/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/poetry/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Julian Yanover ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/julianyanover/)

## Support

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