PixelPost widget for Wordpress

[bitonio]

Hi PP community!

I please to announce, I've just finished a very small widget plugin for Wordpress.
The idea is to have thumbnail displayed on your blog.

It's quite simple, the first version 0.11 is available at

http://www.digitaladventures.fr/photos/pixelpostrss-pour-wordpress/

If you need help, don't hesitate, I'm here ;)

Cheers,

[garymayes]

Bitonio

I found your plugin and have installed it. I am interested in displaying thumbnail feeds from my pixelpost v1.4.3 photoblog (www.golfclubpix.com) on one of my site running wordpress v2.6.1 (www.equip2golf.com). I would like to locate the feed within the sidebar similar to what you have done in the sidebar of your plugin home page

How do I configure your plugin to do this? What is the inline code that I need to place within the sidebar? Is there somewhere where you can configure the size of the thumnails?

Thank you in advance.

Gary

[bitonio]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for testing.

You are right, I hardcoded my own PixelPost thumbnail size into the plugin.
I remove it and now it's your PP thumb size that should display.

All you need is to update the plugin by downloading the new version (0.12)
http://www.digitaladventures.fr/wp-content/plugins/pixelpostrss-0.12.zip

- Bitonio

[garymayes]

Bitonio

I have downloaded the new widget and when I activate it within Wordpress, it adds it to a new sidebar (sidebar1) and does not display any thumbnail images (just shows the header) nor does it show my original sidebar content. I am not real familiar with how Wordpress's widgets work so I might need to learn more there. Or since I have hard coded most of my sidebar.php, I might just need the code segment that goes directly into the sidebar.php file that will pull the latest updates from my PixelPost site.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your time.

Gary

[bitonio]

Can you give me the feed url you configured ?

[garymayes]

Bitonio

Not sure why my last reply didn't post. Here is the RSS feed URL:

http://www.golfclubpix.com/index.php?x=rss

I have not configured it. I am not sure how to do that. When I add the widget to the dynamic sidebar via the Wordpress admin, the only thing that is displayed is the widget title. The rest of my existing sidebar is not there I guess since the content was not widgetized (sp?). So this is why I thought if I had the correct RSS feed code I could just adding to the existing sidebar.php file and not use as a widget.

My apologies if I am not clear here. I am a relative newbie and learning.

Thanks.

Gary

[bitonio]

You have to configure the url of the feed here from your big left menu Settings > pixelpostRSS.

You should have a screen like this

http://www.digitaladventures.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wordpress-pixelpostrss.png

And just after, it should appear on your sidebar.

I tried your feed on my own blog, it seems the links to the images are broken: http://www.golfclubpix.comthumbnails/thumb_20090121000704_scottycameron1_2008pgashow.jp g

You have a missing slash somewhere.
Could you check on you Pixelpost admin > Options > URL (check if you have an ending /)

[garymayes]

Bitonio

I was missing the "/". Not sure how I could have over looked this. I have added it and the RSS URL appears to be functioning correctly. When I add the widget is displays properly.

I was unable to see the screen shot that you attached.

The only configuration options that I see under the Settings > pixelpostRSS is the RSS feed URL and the number of images you want to display. Is there somethig else I am missing?

This works as it is supposed to when used as a widget within wordpress. Is it possible to configure/use this same code on a non-wordpress site?

I appreciate everything.

Gary

[bitonio]

Nice to hear everything fine now. My screenshot was not perfect but you setup everything correctly.

For a non Wordpress site, you need to get the WP library (mainly magpie) and it's doable if you know a little bit PHP.

B.

[dakwegmo]

Very nice! I've got it setup on dakwegmo.com now. I had been using one of the simple pie widgets, but this one lets me keep the full sized images in my feeds.

One question though... why did you add style="margin:0px;" to each image tag? Wouldn't it be better to create a class for those that can be edited in the style sheet?

[bitonio]

Good catch.

I will update the next release with a proper CSS class.

Thanks for reporting.

B.

[bitonio]

Quick update:

Release 0.50 is now available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pixelpostrss/

Have fun.
Any comment for improving the plugin are welcome.