Content Icons Plugin Release

Project Release

It’s with GREAT pleasure that I make the announcement of releasing my latest project: Content Icons Plugin for WordPress 2.7.

What is it?

Simply put, Content Icons is a tool that an author can use to assign “icons” or “images” to individual posts… similar in idea to having Topic Icons. However, biggest difference being, topic icons only display icons that are related or associated with the category (Hence Topic Icon). Content Icons allows author to assign icons such that a reader can readily make an association with the post.

This being the first release of this project, it’s been given version 0.1. Please don’t let the version number deceit you. It has packed with a lot of features (look below for a list of features). However, it is my coding convention that my first ever release of any project starts with 0.1, and increments to 0.5 for the next release, and finally to 1.0, 2.0, etc. with every subsequent release (barring any minor updates).

Features:

No Fuss Install: Simply upload your icons into the upload directory at:

ROOT/wp-content/uploads/cicons

Preview Selected Icon
Display Currently Selected Icon
No Unnecessary DB Entries: i.e., The plugin will not make any revision/auto-save related entries. it will make entries only that is related to the current post.

Enough… Show Me the Needed Info!

Demo: @ My WordPress Playground

Download Plugin

Learn how to develop plugins for WordPress 2.7! Follow the simple step-by-step guide at GuidesForge, that will walk you through the development of this very plugin. The guide also gives all the necessary explanations of the code. Furthermore, the code (both the downloadable copy and the one that is in the guide) has inline commented code, that explains all the important lines of code.

Questions? Comments? Critiques?

Please post all your questions/comments/critiques below, in the comment. I will try and set the forums up, but till then, this will suffice.

Enjoy!

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6 Comments

Submarine Said in Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 @1:33 pm

Hi,

Your plugin is cool & I’m glad you use my plugin !

Jayferd Said in Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 @9:33 pm

Hi there,

Your plugin provides some very useful features. For my blog’s theme, it’s more useful for me to have a library function to call up the icon of a given post. I therefore commented out the ‘the_content’ hook, and added the following function:

/** ** Function: actually grab the url of the selected icon. Takes either a post ID or a post object. By Jay. **/


function get_content_icon_src($post, $default='')

{
    $iconsrc = $default;
    if(is_object($post))

        $postid = $post->ID;

    else

        $postid = $post;

if(is_numeric($postid)) { global $wpdb; $icon_name = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT icon_name FROM `$wpdb->cicons` WHERE `post_id` = $postid"); if($icon_name) $iconsrc = cicons_url().get_upload_path().'/'.$icon_name[0]->icon_name; } return $iconsrc; }

RushiKumar Said in Thursday, June 25th, 2009 @5:52 pm

@Mr. Sub:
Thank you… Your work has been an inspiration!

@Mr. Jayferd:
Glad my plugin has been of use towards your site! That’s a cool mod you did… Whenever I release a new version to this plugin, I will reference your comment, so other users can do a similar solution, if they need to.

Thank you!

Erik Said in Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 @7:09 am

I have installed it, assigned a icon to a post, but where is it suppose to show up?

I cant see the icon nowhere.

Thanks

RushiKumar Said in Sunday, August 16th, 2009 @7:57 am

@Mr. Erik,

Did you follow the installation/usage instructions? If so, I would like to know more details:
- what version of wordpress are you using?
- where are you uploading your images/icons to?
- what are the permissions on the upload folder?