Gerbera.org

www.gerbera.org

(EN) Gerbera.org - Comprehensive site on the Gerbera (”Barberton Daisy”), with history, care and flower-growing industry information.

(NL) Gerbera.org - Uitgebreide site over de Gerbera (”Barberton Daisy”), met historische en kwekers informatie en verzorgingstips.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep:Algemeen publiek
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)

Hearts Unlimited

www.heartsunlimited.net

(EN) Connecting Hearts in a Digital World - Hearts Unlimited is a small Dutch publishing house for books, courses, games and software.

(NL) Brengt harten samen in onze digitale wereld - Hearts Unlimited is een Nederlandse uitgeverij van boeken, opleidingen, spellen en software.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep:Algemeen publiek
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)

Essentie

www.essentie.nu

(NL) Spirituele therapie en praktijk voor coaching en training

(EN) Spiritual therapy plus coaching and training.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep: Spiritueel publiek
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)

Sounds pretty cool but getting this feature up and running proved to be a little less cool…

First of all the instructions on how to activate and use the plugin at the WordPress Plugins pages are extremely minimal and also contain some typos:

<?php if (functionexists('snapmyroll')){snapmy_roll();} ?>

should be…

<?php if (function_exists('snap_my_roll')){snap_my_roll();} ?>

I got the almost correct line of php script from the developer’s blog, but if you copied from here, you need to remove the blank space before the first ? - question mark:

< ?php if (function_exists('snap_my_roll')){snap_my_roll();} ?>

Otherwise all instructions at this blog are in French and mine had become too rusty to make much sense of what was being asked in comments etc. And unfortunately, getting the php line correct didn’t make the plugin work…

I hate to give up quickly, so I decided to look at the plugin files to see if I could get this fixed myself. The original code is this:

function snap_my_roll(){
global $wpdb;
$js_url = get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/SnapMyRoll/' . 'js/';
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
//store links in an array
$my_query = "SELECT link_name, link_url FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = 'Y'";
$links = $wpdb->get_results($my_query, OBJECT);
//rand the the array and build the javascript
shuffle($links);
echo "<li>\n\t<h2>Snap my 'Roll</h2>\n";
echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$js_url.'jquery.js"></script>'."\n";
echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$js_url.'jquery.innerfade.js"></script>'."\n";
echo '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";
echo "\$j=jQuery.noConflict();\n";
echo "\$j(document).ready( function(){\n";
echo "\$j('#blogroll').innerfade(\n";
echo "{ timeout: 4000 ,type: 'sequence', containerheight: '180px', runningclass: 'snap_li'});\n";
echo "});\n";
echo "</script>\n";
//lets print the list of images
echo '<ul id="blogroll">'."\n";
foreach($links as $link){
echo '<li style="width:252px;">'."\n\t".'<a href="' .$link->link_url.'" title="'.$link->link_name.'">'."\n\t".'<img src="http://images.websnapr.com/?url='.$link->link_url.'&size=s" alt="'.$link->link_name.'" /><br />»'.$link->link_name."\n\t".'</a></li>';
echo "\n";
}
echo "</ul>\n</li>";

?>


And the problem is with the path to the .js files this plugin uses. It calls 2 files:

1. jquery.js
2. jquery.innerfade.js

But in the download you only get jquery.innerfade.js - which isn’t a problem because WordPress comes with jquery.js. The only problem is that WP’s jquery.js file is located somewhere else…

So I relocated the jquery.innerfade.js file to sit next to jquery.js and changed the code to this:

function snap_my_roll(){
global $wpdb;
$js_url = get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-includes/js/jquery/';
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
//store links in an array
$my_query = "SELECT link_name, link_url FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = 'Y'";
$links = $wpdb->get_results($my_query, OBJECT);
//rand the the array and build the javascript
shuffle($links);
echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$js_url.'jquery.js"></script>'."\n";
echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$js_url.'jquery.innerfade.js"></script>'."\n";
echo '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";
echo "\$j=jQuery.noConflict();\n";
echo "\$j(document).ready( function(){\n";
echo "\$j('#blogroll').innerfade(\n";
echo "{ timeout: 7000 ,type: 'sequence', containerheight: '133px', runningclass: 'snap_li'});\n";
echo "});\n";
echo "</script>\n";
//lets print the list of images
echo '<ul id="blogroll">'."\n";
foreach($links as $link){
echo '<li>'."\n\t".'<a href="' .$link->link_url.'" title="'.$link->link_name.'">'."\n\t".'<img class="websnapr" src="http://images.websnapr.com/?url='.$link->link_url.'&size=s" alt="'.$link->link_name.'" /></a></li>';
echo "\n";
}
echo "</ul>\n";

?>


I also made some changes to the generated html, but that is only to fit my template and not always a necessity.

Do I like this plugin?

At current I’m having mixed feelings about it.

• This plugin uses a screen snap shot service from www.websnapr.com - it’s a free service with the usual limitations when you don’t upgrade to their pro account. They add a watermark text to the snap shots. It’s not very intrusive, but it wouldn’t look good on any professional sites (by which I mean sites used for commercial purposes as opposed to personal blogs and such).
• In addition there seems to be a limit to the number of snap shots they will generate for you per day. I still have 3 snap shots in queue and they have been in this status for well over 12 hours by now…
• As for the plugin itself, I don’t like the fact it cannot be used as a widget. If you add the php snippet to a text widget, it just displays the php code in your sidebar. (You can actually get another plugin to fix this problem, but that’s another story…)
• The plugin prints a default title ‘Snap my Roll’ which can only be changed from within the php file.
• What I also don’t like is that the plugin generates html that isn’t compliant with WordPress standards. It’s minor - just h2 tags instead of h3 tags for the plugin title, but still…

I think this plugin has potential. With some small adjustments it would be better suitable for general use. I will still look for an alternative at this point that suits my own needs better…

UPDATE - 20 March 2008 at 17:21
After only a couple of hours, I decided to let this plugin go. It wants to be the top layer of the site no matter what and that seriously disturbs my lightbox feature for photographs�

I’m interested in giving this a try, though I also have SpamKarma 2 running as extra protection after a spammer would manage to pass this plugin.

After first installation and trying to leave a comment, I received a php error message which I forgot to copy but it was related to the following line in jspamblock.php:

if(JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE != ''){
$log = fopen(JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE, 'a');
}


The problem was that the script was trying to write to a non-existent yet defined logfile, and the solution was to remove the logfile definition:

Changed:
define('JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE', 'jsspamblock.log');

to:
define('JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE', '');

Of course it’s also possible to create a log file, upload this to the server and make sure the php has permission to write to it. The readme.txt instructions included in the plugin offer a clear explanation of how to proceed if this is what you want.

<?php the_time('Y'); ?>

in the template to display the year (for example in copyrights statements in the footer), WordPress takes the year associated with the content on any given page.

So if you posted an article in 2006, your footer will show a copyright for 2006 when reading that article. If you wrote a page in 2007, the year will change to 2007 when viewing that page…

If you want to use php for automatically keeping your copyrights up-to-date, use the following script instead:

<?php echo date(Y); ?>

From Heavens

www.fromheavens.org

(EN) Spiritual site with daily ‘channelled’ messages.

(NL) Ontwerp voor website waar dagelijks korte ‘gechannelde’ berichten worden geplaatst.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep: Spiritueel publiek
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)

Longevity

(EN) Site for Chinese products.

(NL) Ontwerp voor website waar producten met Chinees karakter verkocht worden.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep: Gezondheid en fittness
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)

Aventurijn

www.aventurijn.org

(NL) Aanpassing van bestaande WordPress template (’Crop circles’) met header logo en eigen kleurenschema. Website is informatieve site van de school ‘Aventurijn’.

(EN) Adaptation of Wordpress template (’Crop circles’) - website of ‘Aventurijn’ school

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep: Ouders schoolgaande kinderen

YokiDoki

www.yokidoki.nl

(NL) Ontwerp voor een website waar kinderyoga lessen in eigen praktijk (YokiDoki) verkocht worden.

(EN) Adaptation of Wordpress template (’Blikxkrieg’) - Yoga workshops for children.

Web software: WordPress blogging software
Doelgroep: Ouders met yoga interesse
(100% W3C xhtml/css validatie)