Do you read..? The widget for WordPress

It star­ted with Rabbitpoet’s assump­tion. It con­tin­ued with CCY-senpai’s replies. And it ended with me. Here you go: A ready-to-go wid­get plu­gin for Word­Press, which has the not-my-idea powers to dis­play a link with a cynic annota­tion from you from your links list in your blog’s side­bar. It’s easy to install, easy to set up, it’s not so easy to write a one-liner about a blog though.

m3-doyouread-screenshot

To do proper cred­it­ing, the idea, and the basic ‘code idea’ how I call it, come from CCY. I merely recoded it for WP link man­age­ment sup­port, plugin/widget-ness as well as auto­mated some code variables.

Issues I hadn’t checked but am sure exist are: WP Super Cache, and to gen­er­al­ize, every cach­ing plu­gin, will kill the ‘ran­dom’ part. Sure, on dif­fer­ent pages you’ll have dif­fer­ent blogs linked, but the pager-refreshing thing will vanish.

After you’ve now read through three para­graphs which could have been com­pressed to one line, you are finally ready to down­load the thing and try it out. After try­ing it out, tell me.

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This is a free plu­gin. And this is a great plu­gin. As everything Eugen cre­ates for you. If you want to thank him for his work and encour­age him to do more, he’s accept­ing dona­tions: and you decide, how much money you want to send him.


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4 Comments

  1. RP 24
    Posted August 12, 2009 at 02:29 | Permalink

    Worked like a charm for me, although I haven’t done any heavy duty test­ing with it yet, as I turned it off until I had descrip­tions for all the links… but like you men­tioned, writ­ing these “witty” one-liners is damn tough.
    RP´s last blog post: Umineko no Naku Koro ni, epis­ode 6 – Middle Game begins

    • Gargron 511
      Posted August 12, 2009 at 21:13 | Permalink

      Some­times ideas on them might come in strangest places though! E.g., my one-liner for We Remem­ber Love, namely ‘A /m/an of word’, came to me while I was in a train head­ing school. Not sure if that one’s witty but I think that’s the best I got so far.

      I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing the wid­get work­ing! :3

  2. Posted August 16, 2009 at 20:22 | Permalink

    Awe­some! Ill try it out as soon as possible!

    • Posted August 17, 2009 at 23:11 | Permalink

      Worked without Prob­lems for me but doesnt look good in use with my theme :(

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