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This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided, but you can customize the templates 100% to match the look and feel of your own site. And if you want, you could also hook it up with Lightbox or any other number of display libraries.

On the backend, this plugin will also add a new Flickr icon to your WordPress edit screen which will allow you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple clicks. You can either have your inserted photos link back to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your Flickr.com photo page.

Screenshots

WordPress 2.5+	Click the screen shot to see what the pop up overlay looks like
Older WordPress:

Author: Joe Tan (joetan54@gmail.com)
License: GPL
Features:

• Supports Flickr videos
• Display your Flickr photo sets as albums on your site
• Search engine friendly URLs
• Complete control over the look and feel, see below for customization details
• Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’
• Flickr notes and Flickr comments are supported
• Adds a new Flickr icon to your media bar which allows you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post. Browse your photos by tags, album, or search everyone’s photos by tags
• Use WordPress shortcodes to easily insert photos from an album into a post (and also Flickr videos).
• Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar.
• Use a popup overlay to display your photos.
• Allow your visitors to leave comments without leaving your blog (via third party commenting services).
• Coming soon Support for over 10+ languages. Learn how you can help.

Installation:

1. Unpack / unzip the archive
2. Copy the entire “tantan-flickr” directory to your Wordpress plugins directory. Your wordpress plugins directory should be something like [WORDPRESS DIR]/wp-content/plugins. Upgrading Note: Just overwrite all the files inside the tantan-flickr directory. If you made edits, then make sure you make a backup just in case something goes wrong!
3. Go into your Wordpress admin, click on the “Plugins” tab, and then activate “Flickr Photo Gallery”.
4. Click on the “Options” (or “Settings”) tab, and click the “Photo Album” subtab to bring up the options screen.
5. Just follow the onscreen prompts to link your photo album to your Flickr account.
6. Once your photo album is linked to your Flickr account, enter a URL where you want your photo album to appear.
7. You’re done! To view your photo album, just go to the URL you entered in the previous step. To insert a photo, just click on the Flickr icon in your “Add media” bar when editing posts. Click on a photo, select a size, and a HTML snippet for that photo will appear in the post’s textarea. Cool!
   If you’re using WordPress 2.3 or older, then you should a new “Photos” tab next to your uploading tabs.

Photo Album Customization:

1. All the templates are located inside a “templates” folder inside the tantan-flickr directory.
2. If you just want to customize one particular template, just copy that template into your current theme directory
3. To completely customize the look and feel, copy all these template files (they all start with photoalbum-) into your current theme directory and modify as necessary.
4. Modify the HTML and CSS in the template files to fit your own site. All the CSS is referenced from the template file photoalbum-header.html
5. That’s it!

Popup Overlay Support:

• Depending on your blogs theme, this may require a little bit of JavaScript / CSS mojo.
• See this page for more detailed instructions on how to use popup overlays.
• Take a peek inside the file photoalbum-resources.php to see how to hook up the plugin with the display library. Example implementation is provided for Lightbox, Facebox, FancyZoom, and Fancybox. Here’s a quick demo of these display libraries >

Download the plugin

Installing Word Press on your own server space only sounds intimidating. It’s actually a fairly easy process that can be accomplished in a few steps. The most important part of the whole thing is backing up your data, just in case something goes awry.

Note: This how-to assumes limited familiarity with common Web terminology such as FTP, server and directory.

Getting Started

The first thing you need to have a Word Press blog from WordPress.org is server space. If you have a WordPress.com blog, you don’t need space - they host it for you. Same company, same interface, slightly different software and more limited functionality.

Once you have your server space (you can get this through a company like BlueHost or GoDaddy for very little money per month), you need to grab your log in information from your cPanel (control panel, usually found on the hose Web site). This is so that you can use an FTP program to log in and install WordPress and any other software you might want to use on your blog.

If you have chosen a host like BlueHost or similar, you can almost stop here. Hosts such as these also offer a tool called Fantastico. Fantastico will install and configure your Word Press files and related databases for you. If you either didn’t choose a host like that or just want to do it yourself, it’s a fairly simple process.

First, log in to your host’s cPanel - your dashboard for controlling the things stored on your Web server. Find the thing that says PHP Admin. Open that, and create a new database. This takes only a moment. Once it is created, some hosts already have you set up as a user of the new database, some need you to set that up. If you need to, add a new user to your new database. Write down the name of the database, your new user name for it and the password.

Prepping Your Installation

Now you need to download Word Press. Go to the WordPress.org site and click the Download link. This will put a .zip file on your computer. You will want to unzip this so that you can add some basic information to the wp-config.php file. You can unzip this right into your FTP folder (directory) /public_html or a new directory you create called /wordpress or /blog on your host server, but I’d recommend not doing that for your first time installing Word Press, just in case.

Once you have unzipped the file, you’ll need to go in to the wp-config-sample.php file and enter in your server log in and location information. You can do this in any text editor program, or a program like Dreamweaver if you have it. You will need the name of the database you made earlier, the server name, your user name, your blog url, and your password. The people who wrote Word Press have made it really simple figure out where to enter this information. Just look for the text that says ‘localhost’ and replace it with your database name, replace ‘password’, ‘user name’ and the rest as you as well. Once you are done, save the file under a new name: wp-config.php.

Installation Basics

Now use your FTP program to upload the entire collection of files and folders from Word Press to your server. Some people put them in their own subfolder named WordPress or Blog, but many just install the files right to the top level directory. To do this, just open the Word Press folder where the unzipped files are stored and select all, then upload them exactly as they are organized into the appropriate spot on your server.

Once the files are done uploading, double check to make sure you renamed the config sample file as wp-config.php. Go to your browser and type in the address of you blog plus /wp-admin/index.php. When you are done it will look something like this: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php or http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php. That will bring you to the Word Press install script. This will ask you to fill in a few blanks with basic information. One you are done, Word Press will automatically take you to the Dashboard (main editing screen) of your new blog, where you can start writing right away, upgrade a theme, add widgets or plugins and more. We’ll go over adding some extras in our next tutorial, but for now…

Happy Blogging!

Current supported release at time of writing: Word Press 2.6.5, Word Press 2.7 is in Release Candidate 1, and is considered a stable development release.

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In forums or groups with a wordpress topic, there are quite often questions about how to offer downloads that require a charge. One of several Wordpress shop plugins could shurely offer this, .. but really more hypothetically. If you want to offer loose download links against payment (to the eBooks for example) or certain information (with serial numbers for products for example), those shop plugins are most of the time far much too complex and expensive and therefore really overdone and in most cases also not flexible enough. The newly developed WordPress plugin wpSALE is very quickly installed and offers parts of a post or downloads only after successful payment with PayPal.

German Version
wpSALE: Mehr verkaufen unter WordPress. Unkompliziert und effizient

Jump marks

• Mode of operation
• Examples
• Screenshots
• Features
• Download & demonstration
• Version of progress
• Installation

Mode of operation
So what does wpSALE? This software, which comprehends by the way only a few kByte, notices the marked parts of the blog operator and replaces them with an alternative, promotional text, regardless if these parts are download-links, text parts or even something different. wpSALE alters the via short code marked part (similiar to wpSLEEP) to a chargable and only after payment reachable content area.

The short code (= marked part) can therefore be placed everywhere and also multiple times within a blog text. When marking the parts, the corresponding attriubutes are also defined: That is why the data has not to be entered in a complicated way and with effort in the WordPress backend - everything is already done locally within the shortcode.

Price und the promotinal text that wpSALE adds with a link for payment, are those attributes. With the help of more attributes/parameters, which are placed before or after the payment link, even more information can be added, which offers you more freedom and playground for the arrangement of the “sold note”. An Example with possible parameters for the time being:

Examples

• [wpsale cost="0,99" id="display-serial" before="Paid content!" link="Now paying via PayPal!" after="Please pay $ %cost% for viewing the content"]Your Serial: 123456789[/wpsale]
• [wpsale cost="3.99" id="download-product" before="Pay $ %cost% to download this product!" link="Now paying via PayPal!"]Thanks for buying with Paypal! <a href=”product.zip”>Click here for download the file.</a>[/wpsale]

Marking, forwarding, paid
After marking the area and saving the post, the reader can only see the alternative text and the link (before, link, after). But all of this happens intuitively: If the user decides to pay and clicks on the payment-link, wpSALE automatically forwards him to the PayPal site, where he loggs in and makes the payment. After successful transaction, PayLal forwards the user back to his previous website. The alternative text is now gone and the user can see or download the content, he paid for.

The successfull transaction at PayPal has supplied the browser with a valid cookie, that passes the verification. The advantage of this technic is obvious: The reader does not have the effort to have to register and wait for the admin review to be able to see the content that requires a charge. The course of process is just one step and thanks to PayPal quick, safe and unbureaucratic.

The possible shady side of this solution
The disadvantage is surely that the cockie can be deleted and in cause of that, the user can not access the content he paid for. This can happen by manual deletion or by the validity period of the used browser. On the other hand there is the question, if the offered content that required a charge, should be accessable for eternity, after one has paid for it. I am quite sure: No it should not. My thoughts, speculations and view about that:

• The link that forwards one to the download of the eBook, once the user has paid for it, leads to the direct downlaod: The pdf can be saved locally on his pc.
• The serial number, that is shown after successfull payment, is copied once to activate a certain program. After that, not again.

Screenshots
Settings in the Backend of the wpSALE plugin

wpSALE sales in table form

Features

• Faster, gentle code for database
• Entry of product details directly within the article text
• Protocoll of all transactions
• Uncomplicated process without registration
• Cookie validity of 1 year
• Usable from WordPress 2.5

Possible attributes in [wpsale]… [/wpsale]

• cost
  Product price in german oder english format.
• id
  Explicit ID respectively the name of the product. Ideally - as IDs do - this identification number consists only out of numbers, but this is not mandatory. PayPal shows the ID within the payment details.
• before
  Text before the payment link.
• link
  Associated text to the payment link.
• after
  Text after the payment link.

Possilbe placeholder in [wpsale]… [/wpsale]

• %cost%
  At the time being the only placeholder can be placed within the attributes before, link and/or after and will be replaced with the value from the attribute cost automatically. The advantage: The price of the product has to be set in the short code only once.

Download & demonstration
wpSALE is a software that requires an charge and can be acquired without obligation for a price of € 0,99 (€ 0,37 PayPal charge inclusive).
» Now paying securly via PayPal and downloading!

Version of progress
Version 0.5 dated 19.11.2008:

• Encryption of data (price, productID)
• Automatic cleanup of the data table
• Improving the pay process

Version 0.4 dated 07.11.2008:

• New option: Language of the PayPal login page

Version 0.3 dated 31.10.2008:

• wpSALE sales statistic in table form
• English interface
• Restructering of code

Version 0.2 dated 21.10.2008:

• Improved compatibility with all PayPal accounts

Version 0.1 dated 20.10.2008:

• wpSALE goes online

Installation

• Download plugin
• Unzip the archive
• Upload the file wpsale.php into ../wp-content/plugins/
• Go to tab Plugins
• Activate wpSALE
• Click on Settings and define within the options

Tipps

• Check that the email address of the PayPal receiver is set under wpSALE settings, otherwise there will be no forwarding to PayPal.

Donate
Does wpSALE come up to your expectations? If that is the case, I am very grateful for a ping- or trackback. Or Donate via PayPal. Thank you!

Updates
This plugin will be updated permanently. Is a new version out, I will tell you about it within the comments. » Subscribe to article comments via RSS

WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier speeds up comment moderation.

A major part of blogging involves managing the readers’ comments and responding to them in a timely fashion. WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier sits on your system’s tray and notifies you whenever a new comment is posted. Depending on how you set it up (it checks new comments at set intervals), you can moderate and respond to comments much quicker - something your readers will appreciate.

Google is the undisputed king of search. They do it well. What many bloggers may not be aware of is that you can use Google as your site’s main search engine. You don’t have to use your blog engine’s built in search.

There are two really nice benefits to using Google for your site search engine:

1. It’s Google! That means you have full power of Google search on your blog.
2. You can use Adsense for your search results and make some money on your site searches. And the CPM is usually VERY high with Adsense in this case because the ads are super well targeted.

So the question is: how do you do it? Well, I’ll show you. 

1. You need an Adsense account. So, if you’re not already signed up as an Adsense publisher, do so now.
2. In your Adsense account, click on “Adsense Setup”. Then click on “Adsense for Search”.
3. Click the “Get Started” button. You will enter the wizard for creating your search form.
4. For “Search Type”, select “Only sites I select”. In your “Selected Sites” box, type the URL to your blog. You can enter multiple sites if you wish.
5. Enter some “optional keywords” which will gear the ads displayed toward your blog subject matter.
6. You can leave all other fields as default. Continue to the next step.
7. Choose the look and feel of your search form. Continue to the next step.
8. Next, you can choose where you want your search results to appear. In order to make the search results appear within your own site, choose “open results within my own site” and specify the URL. For PCMech, I entered “http://www.pcmech.com/searchresults.php”. This is obviously not part of the Wordpress installation, but that’s OK. We’re going to create this file for you in a moment.
9. Choose the ad position and color palette and then continue to the next step
10. Assign a name to the search engine. This is for your own internal purposes later. Then hit the “Save and Get Code” button.
11. You’re going to get two snippets of code. One is for the actual search form and the other is for your search results page. Include the search form HTML wherever you want it to appear in your blog theme (likely either the sidebar or the header). You can use CSS to customize the appearance of the search form to match your site as closely as possible.
12. Now you need to create a file called searchresults.php. The code I use for this file is below. You will need to paste in your results code that Google gave you, modify as needed to suite your particular theme, and upload to your blog’s root directory.

<?php
unset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
//Include current WordPress Theme Header etc.
require(’./wp-config.php’);
function maketitle() {
return ” | Search Results”;
}
//Check if we’re wrapping the WP Theme
//Get Theme settings.
$themes = get_themes();
$current_theme = get_current_theme();
$current_template_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Template Dir'];
$current_stylesheet_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Stylesheet Dir'];
//Initialize the WP class to be able to get the header
wp();
//Set status to 200 to override the 404 set by WordPress
status_header(200);
//Include the WP Header
add_filter(”wp_title”,’maketitle’);
get_header();
?>
[ PASTE YOUR SEARCH RESULTS CODE FROM GOOGLE HERE ]
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php
get_footer();
?>

This file will use your blog’s active theme, however you may need to do some modifications to suit your blog. You might also need to go back and define the width of the search results to fit your blog.

When you’re done, you will have a Google powered search engine within your blog

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screenshot:

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alysonstoner.com

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studioracket.org

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weheartstuff.co.uk

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blog.tshirt-factory.com

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ledzuc.com

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taptaptap.com/blog

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labs.mozilla.com

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iconicon.net

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neweracaptalk.com/blog

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blog.brightbox.co.uk

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newsfirex.com/blog

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blog.x3studios.ro

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ilustract.com

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antiphrasis.com

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mustberigged.com

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ispoil.net

I’m sad to report that my Related Posts plugin for WordPress which was created by W-A-S-A-B-I no longer fits the bill with WordPress 2.7. This means I had to replace an old favorite with a new plugin that provided related posts. Upon browsing through the plugin repository, I came across one that I’ve heard about throughout the community called YARPP or, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

I found YARPP easy to configure and was happy to know that it comes bundled with a widget that I can place in my sidebar. YARPP has two critical elements. The first being that it limits the amount of related posts to display and the second, displays posts based on a relatedness score that is configurable. The relatedness score is what is called a match threshold. With various options, you can configure how tight or how loose that threshold score is by editing titles, bodies, tags, and categories.

Last but not least, you can also configure the output of the plugin by adding bits of html to the before and after sections of the related posts. As a bonus, YARPP also has a new option to display related posts in the RSS feed. If you’re not using a FeedBurner FeedFlare to provide this functionality, this plugin makes a nice substitute.

All in all, I think I can qualify this plugin as my new recommendation to others who are looking for a way to display related posts on their WordPress blog. How about you? Which related posts technique or plugin are you using?