Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress -even WordPress MU-, (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software’s) posts and generates ‘featured content’ section for your blog using the posts and images.
Features:
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Image caching (once a image is re-sized & rendered by plugin, it’s cached for future hits which saves lots of performance)
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Template support ( embedding & editing any output template is easy. You can just use any JS/Ajax script to output the contents!)
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Layered architecture: input_layer (Standalone, WordPress etc) → featplug engine → output theme (simple banners, slide show etc)
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Image enlarging
Benefits for WordPress MU:
As MU is multiuser environment, the main page for your MU blog can just generate featured content for your visitors from all the different authors.
Download & Wiki
- Plugin Website: http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/
- Support Forums: http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/forum
- Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featplug/
- Demo: http://postbanners.huseyinuslu.net/ and http://www.huseyinuslu.net
- Sites Already Using: http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4&sid=194dc523828be6ffcda762acf1419496
Screenshots:
Simple banners Mode:
Widget Mode:
Very nice :) Thanks for the submission!
seems to be very much like featurific, right? But it sounds good: `is a plugin that can mine your WordPress -even WordPress MU-, `
Yes, it’s like featurific but the difference is featurific is a hardcoded & flash based plugin where featplug is not hardcoded on any flash.
It can just use flash as-well but with the template support, customization is quite easy
Does it also shrink images to fix or only enlarge them? It never seems to find any suitable images on my site and just sits in the “loading” screen.
Franks, yes it does shrink & enlarges images. Try lowering the output dimensions. Can you please post the code you use or if you’re running it from widget.
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This plugin is REALLY nice! Is there a way to have it run in WPMU on the “main” blog, while displaying/featuring posts in the user’s blogs elsewhere on the WPMU site?
@D’arcy;
Yes you can with a few hacks for version 0.60.
But I’m just about to release a 0.61 version which will have native-MU support. In a few hours..
Hi i’ve released the version 0.62, which now does have NATIVE wordpress-mu support which you can put the plugin on your MU’s main page and the plugin will find the featured content from “latest updated MU blogs”.
Download it; http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featplug.0.62.zip
More information about the MU-support: http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/documentation#wordpress_mu_support
Is there an easy hack to slow down the speed of the slideshow (going just a tiny bit too fast… don’t have time to read text).
Yes, open up templates/smoothgallery/header.php and find the line:
timed: true,delay: 5000
Change the value as you need there.
Thank you!
Last question: Is there an option to assign a default image if the plugin doesn’t find one in a post (when a post doesn’t have any images in it).
I would like to use the plugin to ALWAYS display my last 5 posts (even if the post doesn’t have a image in it). Currently, by design (I suppose), the plugin doesn’t include post in the slideshow if the post doesn’t have an image.
(Technically, I can get around quirk by adding a 1 pixel transparent gif at the beginning of a post)… and theoretically, the plugin will resize that image to whatever dimension I want… if I set image resizing to “true”, hence no posts will ever be skipped. I was hoping there was an easier way via the plugin settings?)
Hi again, yes right now there is no support for a default image. Adding it todo list now. But you can just hack the engine.php and function add_item($i) to do it.
Thanks for the answer!
Sorry, one last thing (then I go away until next update, promise… hehe). In Internet Explorer 7, this error always pops up (I also verified issue on your demo site):
Line: 521
Char: 4
Error: Type mismatch
Code: 0
But totally fine in Firefox 2 & 3.
(Side note: I didn’t realize until now that I had accidentally typed my e-mail address in “Name” field in 2 previous comments. Could you please change those to “fruityoaty”, if it’s not too much trouble… as spambots might harvest my e-mail that way. SORRY.)
It seems to be a problem with smootgallery, i’m waiting for author to fix the problems with smoothgallery 2.1
is there an issue with subdomains? it’s not working on my install. do i need to edit .htaccess to get it to point to the correct post URI?
can you post your url so i can check?
Hi
Is there any way to show content of one category only on WPMU. Plugin is great and works fine but it’s showing images from all posts no matter which category they belong to.
Thanks in advance
Yes use the $filter feature.
Btw here’s a WPMU demo running the Featplug; http://int6.org/wpmu/
I must be doing something wrong as category filtering does not work for me. Is there any example of this? Sorry!
Please can you check this links:
http://www.regularsexpressions.com/wp-post-banners-wordpress-filters/
and
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Brilliant stuff..Followed the link through from Noupe. Will be implementing this one on my own blog… was usinn Alex King’s plugin before WordPress 2.6+
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Hi I’ve been tring to get this plugin to work for ages but no luck… i am using it on MU but what ever combination of the direct call i use it pulls old posts from my sub blogs and non from the main one!
Please help, all i need it to do is show the last 5 or so posts from the main blog!
this is what ive been using:
thanks :]
Hello, may I know if there is a way to render the image so that they don’t look so pixelated so shown on this site (http://www.samsungi907.com/careace/)?
Thanks!
Using big images in size is the key for non-pixelation
This looks like a wonderful plugin that I would consider using.