Paolo Ardoino - ideas, programming, web and more... » Wordpress http://ardoino.com Homo quisque faber ipse fortunae suae Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Wordpress plugin, WP interests : generate a chart of your interests http://ardoino.com/28-wordpress-wp-interests/ http://ardoino.com/28-wordpress-wp-interests/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:00:11 +0000 Paolo Ardoino http://ardoino.com/28-wordpress-wp-interests/ Wp interests screenshot 1

This is a very simple wordpress plugin that uses Google Chart API to create and display a chart of your interests on the basis of blog’s categories and posts.

Version : 0.1

Download : http://ardoino.com/pub/wordpress/wp-interests.zip

Installation

1. Unzip into your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory..
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Edit your current theme adding the few lines below (for example in siderbar.php)

<?php
    $wp_interests = new wp_interests();
    $wp_interests->wpi();
?>

3.1. Defining size of the chart

<?php
    // Chart width: 300px , height: 200px
    $wp_interests = new wp_interests();
    $wp_interests->wpi(array("size" => "300x200"));
?>

3.2. Defining excluded categories from chart

<?php
    // Excluding 'Humor' and 'General' categories from chart
    $wp_interests = new wp_interests();
    $wp_interests->wpi(array("size" => "300x200", "exclude_cats" => array("Humor", "General")));
?>

3.3. Renaming long categories names in chart

<?php
    // Renaming 'Ajax/Javascript' in 'Ajax/JS' and 'Crypto/Security' in 'Crypt/Sec'
    $wp_interests = new wp_interests();
    $wp_interests->wpi(array(
       "size" => "300x200",
       "exclude_cats" => array("Humor", "General"),
       "rename_cats" => array("Ajax/Javascript" => "Ajax/JS", "Crypto/Security" => "Crypt/Sec")
     ));
?>

3.4. For more options visit http://ardoino.com
4. That’s it!

Changelog :

  • 0.1 -> initial release
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