New Addon: PixelPost Promote

[kevincrafts]

The PixelPost Promote Addon allows you to promote either your latest photos or some random photos on web pages/sites outside of the pixelpost framework.

PixelPost Promote Addon Directions


Copy promote.php to your addons directory
Copy promote_template.html to your current template directory. Do NOT edit this file.
Put some javascript on the web page you want to promote your pixelpost site on, such as: <script src="http://yoursitehere/index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle=yes"></script>
type value can be 'latest' or 'random'
total value = how many photos you want to display
showtitle value(yes/no) will show the title and link to your blog


The code output looks like this:

<div id="pixelpostpromote"> <div class="pixelposttitle"><a href="http://yoursitehere/">Your Site Title</a></div> <a href="http://yoursitehere/?showimage=8"><img src="http://yoursitehere/thumbnails/thumburl.jpg" border="0" alt=" "/></a> </div>

See a demo (http://blog.kevincrafts.com/promote.html)

Download (http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/pixelpost-promote/)

[rk.balla]

this is an excellent addon.. a great way to promote your photo blog.
thanks kevin.

one suggestion:
if the images slide instead of being static, like a slideshow.. with some 'next' & 'prev' buttons to boot.. it will look awesome.
i hope it would come in the next version of the addon.

- RK

here's my promotion :-)
http://klachak.balla.in/promotion.html

[davidrwalters]

Hi-

I put the addon into the addon folder, place the promote_template.html into my template directory, placed the script into image_template.html and wanted the bannder to appear at the footer of my image_template.html page.

I know I'm messing something up here with the script somewhere. Just not sure how I can make this appear on my own page.

Not sure what's wrong?

Thank you for your help.

Dave

[kevincrafts]

The addon was really made to use on pages/sites outside of your pixelpost install, but it should work within pixelpost too - do you have a url I can look at to see what's going on?

[Omar1000]

Great addon, works fine.

Is it possible to promote only pictures for one category?

[kevincrafts]

Not right now, but I can build that into a future version

[davidrwalters]

You can check out my code at www.uncommoncommons.com I left it in there and all that's showing up is the text link. Thanks for your help.

Dave

[Omar1000]

Not right now, but I can build that into a future version

That would be great! I m looking forward! Thanks a lot!

[kevincrafts]

Are you putting the <PROMOTE> tag on your image_template.html file? You don't need to use that tag at all. All you need is the script tag which should look like this:

<script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle=yes"></script>

You can check out my code at www.uncommoncommons.com I left it in there and all that's showing up is the text link. Thanks for your help.

Dave

[davidrwalters]

I put <script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script> into the promote_template.html in the template folder. <PROMOTE> was on that html, but in the directions it says not to edit this html page. I have it in templates directory folder not the actual template I'm using does that matter?

Also, not sure if the coding in the image_template.html is right? I have
<script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script> in the scripts and the output coding in the bottom.

Do I need to edit the index.php?

I know it's something simple that I'm doing wrong? Should i just create a new HTML and link that image? If so what's the best way I go about that?

[davidrwalters]

I was not using the <PROMOTE> in my image_template.html.

I put <PROMOTE> back in the promote_template.html, since i misread your response.

In the scripts of image_template.html i placed

<script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script>

What code do I need to place in image_template for the script to come up?

[kevincrafts]

David, place the promote_template file in your warmhorizon directory.

Remove the <script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script> from the scripts area.

Remove the 'output code' and put this in it's place: <script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script>

[davidrwalters]

I uploaded promote_template.html to warmhorizons folder.

Removed script code.

Place <script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script> into the footer and still no luck.

[kevincrafts]

When I look at the output of your url there is an exta closing </div> in there that is messing things up. Do you know where this came from?

You can see this if you put this url in your browser: http://www.uncommoncommons.com/index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle=yes and view the source

</div>
document.write('<div id="pixelpostpromote"><div class="pixelposttitle"><a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/">Uncommon Commons</a></div>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=59"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071224162346_cloudsunweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=58"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071223181405_raindroplightsweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=57"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071222185557_combinedchristmasweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=55"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071219105819_frozenoverlookweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=54"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071218112802_icyfieldweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('<a href="http://uncommoncommons.com/?showimage=53"><img src="http://uncommoncommons.com//thumbnails/thumb_20071217130503_redbarnsideweb.jpg " border="0" alt=" "/></a>');document.write('</div>');

I uploaded promote_template.html to warmhorizons folder.

Removed script code.

Place <script src="http://www.uncommoncommons.com//index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle= yes"></script> into the footer and still no luck.

[davidrwalters]

Not sure where that </div> is coming from? Where can I delete that to see if it fixes things? Image_template.html somewhere?

[kevincrafts]

David,
Did you make any changes to the promote.php file?

if you made any changes to the files, perhaps you should download a fresh set.

[davidrwalters]

I didn't make any changes to the promote.php file. I'll try uploading fresh files.

[davidrwalters]

Uploaded fresh files. Still no go. Maybe just doesn't work with in pixelpost? Can I link this to be an image in my footer?

could the extra </div> be somewhere in my code?

[kevincrafts]

I can't replicate what is happening with yours. Have you hacked any of the core pixelpost files? No matter what arguments I give (even none) I still get that closing tag at the top and it is what is causing it to fail.

http://www.uncommoncommons.com/index.php?x=promote

Uploaded fresh files. Still no go. Maybe just doesn't work with in pixelpost? Can I link this to be an image in my footer?

could the extra </div> be somewhere in my code?

[effraie]

hello,
that plugin seem nice, but i've got a problem: it give me a blank page:
http://blog.effraie.org/promote.html
it's a bit strange, cause i've got: http://pics.effraie.org/index.php?x=promote&type=latest&total=6&showtitle=no working.
and if i replace my url in browse.html bu kevin's one, it's work (showing that's not a misconfiguration in my external site)
any idea?

[kevincrafts]

The problem comes from the apostrophe in your site name - something I didn't anticipate when making the addon. I've updated the addon so it should work with your site name - you can download it here (http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/pixelpost-promote/download/).

[effraie]

it work, you rock ;)
any way to make it vertical?

[kevincrafts]

you can do some css styling to make it vertical

[witty]

Hi,

Is there a way to use this addon as a "signature" for this forum, for example?


-Witty

[kevincrafts]

I'm going to say no, since the forum signature is based on Markdown and I don't htink there is a way to insert script tags into that.

[witty]

Hi,

That's what I figured, but thought I'd ask. It's a neat add-on, but the only use for it FOR ME, would be as a signature for my account on another forum to which my blog relates. Oh well. Thanks!


-Witty

[Dkozikowski]

I've got a script which will display your latest photo (or random) in a forum signature / forum post, etc. If you're interested shoot me a PM and I'll clean the code up and package it.

[mexi]

hi,
i am from germany and my english isn't so pretty. I activate the code on my side, but when i click on the link its open in the same window. I want to open my pixelpost-fotoblog in extern window, what must i do ?

thanks 4 help.

Greets mexi