Tag Archive for ‘ucc’

Plugin Status Update 3

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Over the last year or so I’ve released several plugins for WordPress. Some of the were adaptations of existing plugins, some were built from the ground up, some have been updated and some…well…haven’t. The release of WP2.5 gives me a good opportunity to take a look at what plugins (other than Fluency as I think I’ve covered it enough on here in the last month or so) I have released, and what their future holds.

Ultimate Category Cloud

Current Version: 3.0
Development Status: 4.0 is in progress.
Next Release: Before the end of April.

While this is relatively simple plugin, it took me a while to get the basics working as I had originally intended them too. The first release was quite buggy to say the least, which was the main reason that v2 follow fairly soon after. I was happy enough with v2 not to update it any further, until WP2.3 came out and changed the way that categories were handled. I updated UCC to v3, bringing WP2.3 compatibility, along with some much need “cleansing” of my code, the removal of unneeded cruft, basically it was an overall refinement.

I’ve recently started work on v4.0 which will add (much needed) widget support which will make it even easier for users to add to their blogs, I’ve also sorted out a few oddities in the code which have been there since v2.

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Ultimate Category Cloud 3.0 12

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Ultimate Category Cloud 3.0

Finally, I found found the time to do some much needed work on some of my plugins. the first to receive an update is Ultimate Category Cloud (UCC) which now moves to version 3 and is fully Wordpress 2.3 compatible among other things.

Changelog

  • Now WP2.3 compatible, thanks to Mephisto, Jason Ellis and Jan Weinschenker for their suggestions.
  • Now displays weight and coloured categories as default behaviour
  • Default ‘largest’ size is now 200% not 250%
  • Removed the get_all_cats function, it is no longer needed
  • New function for better conversion of hex colours to decimal values
  • Font size weight should now more accurately reflect the largest and smallest font sizes that you specify
  • Reworked weighted colouring, now only requires you to specify one colour.

Installation and Usage

To install UCC simply download the zip file below, extract the contents and upload to the wp-content/plugins directory on your server.

The display a ‘cloud’ on your site simply modify your theme to insert one of these snippets of code where you would like the ‘cloud’ to appear.

Default Weighted and Colored

<?php weighted_categories(); ?>

Weighted but not Colored

<?php weighted_categories(1,0); ?>

Colored but not Weighted

<?php weighted_categories(0,1); ?>

Neither Weighted nor Colored

<?php weighted_categories(0,0); ?>

To choose your own color add the third parameter

<?php weighted_categories(1,1,$basecolor="#ff0000"); ?>

Advanced usage

You can also specify how large or how small the weighted text should appear, if needed you can also exclude specific categories from the cloud, and by changing the $method option to ‘0’ you can reverse the coloring of the categories (ie. the lightest becomes the darkest and vice versa
<?php weighted_categories($weighted=1, $colored=1, $basecolor="#CCCCCC", $smallest=70, $largest=200, $unit="%", $exclude='', $method=1); ?>

Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0 Released! 8

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No this isn’t a fandangle Web 2.0 thingamy…oh, yeah it is actually. Bring the bloggy goodness of a “coloured and weighted” cloud of your categories. You can add either a ‘weighted’ cloud, ie. the more posts in a category the bigger the text link, or a ‘coloured’ cloud, ie. the more posts the lighter in colour the text link becomes. But thats not all, should you want to you can turn both options on for the full Web 2.0 effect of a weighted and coloured cloud.

UCC has been re-written since version 1 and is now compatible witht the recently released Wordpress 2.1. You can see a living example of the ‘coloured’ cloud in action in my sidebar on the right, and an example of the ‘weighted and coloured’ cloud can be found on my Archives page.

For further details and installation instructions visit my Plugins page

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Support forum is online 7

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I’ve just finished setting up some simple support forums for Redoable 1.0 as well as for my two plugins, Rechuked Buttons 1.0 and Ultimate Cloud Category 1.0-beta. So if you have any questions about these be sure to use the new support forums. If you find a bug, let me know. If you want to see an extra feature, let me know. If you’d like you’re favourite plugin to be supported, let me know. I’m open to suggestions, comments, and even constructive criticism.

Goto the Support forums

The Redoable Support Forums are powered by Vanilla 1.0.3, which is a relatively new open source, standards compliant discussion forum. It takes a slightly different approach to the more widely used vBulletin and phpbb forums, but it perfect for a small scale application like my support forums. Well worth a look.

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Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0

Version 2 is ready to roll, and compatible with your Wordpress 2.1 blog!

This is a modified version of the Weighted Category Cloud by Matt Kingston. I wanted it to be able to colour each category differently, in a similar way to how the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin coloured tags in its cloud. After Studying the UTW code, and playing around with the Category Cloud code I was able to achieve the desired result.

Installation

Note: If you are using this plugin with the Redoable theme, all you need to do is upload it to your plugins directory and activate it.

  1. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
  2. Upload ultimate_category_cloud.php to your plugins directory.
  3. Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
  4. Add this code to any page one which you want to display the Ultimate Category Cloud.

    <?php
    $weighted = 0; // set to ‘1’ to turn font size weighting on.
    $colored = 1; // set to ‘0’ to turn font color weighting off.
    $minfont = 70;
    $maxfont = 250;
    $fontunit = “%”;
    $lightcol = “#FFFFFF”;
    $darkcol = “#666666”;
    $category_ids_to_exclude = “1”; // list of any categories you want to exclude from the cloud, seperated by ’ , ‘.
    weighted_categories($weighted, $colored, $minfont, $maxfont, $fontunit, $lightcol, $darkcol, $category_ids_to_exclude);
     ?>

  5. Make adjustments to the variables to suit. If you are using this plugin with the Redoable Theme, the defaults are the recommended values.
  6. Enjoy.

View Code

Click here to open ultimate_category_cloud.phps in a new window.

Download

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Changelog

29/01/2007
Version 2 Released!
Substantially re-written to work with Wordpress 2.1.
Code that handles the ‘colouring’ of the cloud has been simplified and improved.
01/01/2007
Category links should now work from all pages, not just the home page.

Rechuked Buttons 1.0

Rechuked buttons 1.0 plugin is not currently compatible with Wordpress 2.1

This plugin is a modified version of Sawchuk Buttons by Kirk Montgomery. It adds additional buttons to the WYSIWYG text editor to insert the tags for some of the special styles included with Redoable.

Installation

  1. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
  2. Upload the entire ‘rechuked_buttons’ folder to your plugins directory.
  3. Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
  4. Now when you edit or create posts/pages you will have additional buttons to easily insert the special styles included with Redoable.
  5. Enjoy.

View Code

Click here to open rechuked_buttons.phps in a new window.

Download

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Redo-Recent-Links 1.0-beta

Please note this is only a beta release, if you find any bugs please post details in the support forum.

Redo-recent-links is a modified version of wp-recent-links by RebelPixel. It has been modified to exclude links from the post count in the loop. ie. So if you set your blog to display 10 posts per page, your will get 10 posts, plus your links.

While this plugin is in beta, it is recommended that it is only used with Redoable 1.1. Only use it with other themes if you are sure you know what you are doing…

Installation

For more detail, see the included readme.txt

  1. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
  2. Upload redo-recent-links.php to your plugins directory.
  3. Upload wp-recent-links.php and wp-recentlinks-rss2.php to your Wordpress root directory.
  4. Upload recent-links.php to your wp-admin directory
  5. Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
  6. Enjoy.

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