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  • Plugin Name: BT Extras v2
    Description: some extra functionalities added to WordPress
    Version: 2.0
    Author: Jeff Zhong
    download: http://www.live-share.com/files/269356/bt-extras.rar.html
    ******************** Instruction *************
    This plugin is a multi-functional plugin, which contains of three functionalities:
    – RAG Status.
    Add RAG color status (compare with post_date_gmt) for each post and display the color at the place where you’d like,
    you can also set the RAG color options in the admin panel.
    – Extra Customer Data
    When editing a post, you can add extra customer data, such as name, address, telephone number, etc. A new table will be created when you active plugin.
    Additionally, this plugin also provide template tags to display the customer data at the frontpage.
    – Feed Bin
    When using this function, you need to install FeedWordPress plugin. You can download it from:
    http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/
    This function provides a Bin button tags, which can be used in the frontpage, this button is only works with Syndicated post
    Another tag is ‘Original Site’ button, by clicking this button it will redirect to the original post site.

    *** Version
    This plugin has been tested with wordpress v2.2.x and feedwordpress v0.981,

    *** Functionalities
    The purpose of using this plugin may be one of below:
    1. intend to show author’s information of the posts
    2. intend to set and show RAG status of each post
    3. also intend to category the posts of different RAG colors
    4. want to show closed information when the post’s comment is closed
    5. reordering the list of posts by post date
    6. intend to show original website of syndicated posts (feedwordpress plugin needed)
    7. intend to have a frontpage Bin functionality of syndicated posts (feedwordpress plugin needed)
    8. intend to insert and edit extra customer data for each post
    9. intend to show customer data in the frontpage

    *** Installation
    1. put plugin folder under “$your_wordpress_home_directory\wp-content\plugins”
    2. login as admin user and goto Plugins panel
    3. active this plugin in the control panel
    4. goto Options->RAG Options to set RAG status
    5. edit your template with the Template Tags (or interfaces) listed below

    *** Template Tags
    1. RAG Status
    — wp_show_author() : show post’s author information with user authentication (admin, editor and author)
    — the_rag() : display post’s RAG status
    — the_post_status() : display ‘closed’ at the title if post’s comment is closed
    — wp_list_ragstatus() : may be used in Sitemap or Archive page, to list the category of RAG colors
    — $num = get_num_post($rag_color): get the number of post with RAG colors, input can be: red, green, amber, blue, all and active
    — provide a link to reorder the posts by post date:
    for example – Ascending Order
    or descending Order
    — also provide a url link to show all posts with specific RAG color (value can be red, green, amber or blue)
    for example: Show All Red Posts
    or you can mix them, Show All Amber Posts with Ascending Order

    2. Extra Customer Data
    — show_customer_info() : show the customer data at the place where this function is called, (admin and editor)

    3. Feed Syndication (work with FeedWordPress plugin)
    — show_origin_site() : show ‘Original Post’ button with the link to where the post aggregated from
    — show_feed_bin() : show ‘Bin This’ button, (admin and editor)

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    download: http://www.live-share.com/files/269356/bt-extras.rar.html

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  • Hmmm…this plugin recommends using a feed scraping plugin? The same one that scrapers are using? As in FeedWrodPress?
    Moderators, you may want to take a look at this.

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