{"id":5078,"date":"2009-03-20T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T18:15:58","slug":"blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin","status":"closed","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin\/","author":143249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"0.3.0","stable_tag":"0.3.0","tested":"2.8","requires":"2.1","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin","header_author":"Kim Huebel","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2009-05-23 18:15:58","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/blog.huebel-online.de\/","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/blog.huebel-online.de\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/blog.huebel-online.de","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":0,"downloads":1541,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["0.0.1","0.3.0"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[]},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[323,9674,168,7917,1326],"plugin_category":[43,50],"plugin_contributors":[],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-5078","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-blog","plugin_tags-introduction","plugin_tags-sidebar","plugin_tags-snapshot","plugin_tags-thumbnail","plugin_category-customization","plugin_category-media","plugin_committers-kimhbel"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>This is a plugin that brings up a little preview of a site into the widget-less sidebar. If you want to use this in a widget-enabled theme, give <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/blogintroduction-wordpress-widget\/\" title=\"blogintroduction-wordpress-widget\">blogintroduction-wordpress-widget<\/a> a chance. The link is chosen by random out of the links in the WordPress link-manager. You can specify a single link-category or use all categories for the random-link-base.<\/p>\n <p>You can also decide to show invisible\/private links. This is for the case you want to show links as a preview you don't want to show in the linkroll.<\/p>\n <p>If you want and if there is a description for the link done in the link-description-field it would be shown.<\/p>\n <p>A refreshing via AJAX could be enabled with a specific time (in seconds) when the next thumbnail would be loaded.<\/p>\n <p>This plugin uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websnapr.com\/\" title=\"Website Thumbnais For Your Site\">websnapr<\/a>-Service for generating the thumbnail-images. Keep their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websnapr.com\/terms\/\" title=\"General Terms and Conditions for Websnapr\">term of use<\/a> in mind. You should get an API-Key for free from there to use this widget and get more then 80 snapshots per hour, with key it would be about 340 per hour (250.000 a month).<\/p>\n <p>Since Version 0.3.0 you could also use the image-link stored in the link-manager for containing the link to the preview-image. If no link is given the widget would use websnapr as fall back.<\/p>\n <p>If you want to leave a feedback, feel free to do this on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.huebel-online.de\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin\/\" title=\"Home of blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin - Blog of Kim Huebel\">plugin's homepage<\/a> of the author's blog. Though the pages are in german, comments in english are wellcome, too.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload <code>blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin.php<\/code> and <code>blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin_ajax.php<\/code> to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin<\/code> directory<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Add the call to the function <code>plugin_blogintroduction_getBlogintroduction()<\/code> at the place in the sidebar you want to show it<\/li>\n<li>Configure your plugin using the admin-page<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n <p>The configuration is a simple thing:<\/p>\n <ul>\n<li>Websnapr-API-Key: Here you could put in your API-Key. It's not necessary to fill this field for running the widget but its better to keep in mind with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websnapr.com\/terms\/\" title=\"General Terms and Conditions for Websnapr\">term of use<\/a> I think.<\/li>\n<li>Image-width: The value is a the number of pixels of the image-width in the sidebar. This parameter correspondents to the width-value in the html-img-tag.<\/li>\n<li>Image-height: The value is a the number of pixels of the image-height in the sidebar. This parameter correspondents to the height-value in the html-img-tag.<\/li>\n<li>use4:1-ratio: If checked, height would be well-sized to a 4:3-ratio corresponding to the width-value. Given height above would be ignored then.<\/li>\n<li>Image-source: Here you could chose from where the preview-image would be loaded: From websnapr or from a location given by the Image-URL in the link-manager.<\/li>\n<li>Link-category: Here you could chose the category of the links that would be the source for the random-links.<\/li>\n<li>Link-target: Simply means link-target. So where the link should be opened. \"Im neuen Fenster\" means in a new window, \"Im aktuellen Fenster\" means in the actual window of the browser.<\/li>\n<li>Show description: If the checkbox is checked, the link-description in the link-manager would be shown with a Label \"Description\" (depending on the translation).<\/li>\n<li>Show private links: Check this box to show private-links.<\/li>\n<li>Show new thumbnail in ... seconds: Here you enable the auto-renew-function, that means, every x seconds depending on the value you enter in the box on the right side, a new thumbnail would be shown. The minimum time is 10 seconds to avoid heavy traffic and other problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<h4>Where could I leave a comment or a question relating the plugin?<\/h4>\n <p>If you want to leave a feedback, feel free to do this on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.huebel-online.de\/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin\/\" title=\"Home of blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin - Blog of Kim Huebel\">plugin's homepage<\/a> of the author's blog. Though the pages are in german, comments or questions in english are wellcome, too.<\/p>\n <h4>Sometimes I see thumbnails containing an error 404 or \"bad request\" or something, what's about this?<\/h4>\n <p>If you see thumbnails containing some errors the cause lies at websnapr itself. 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