I launched a new website called WPImageRotator.com. The website’s sole purpose is to house the Header Image Rotator plugin for WordPress. It was becoming increasingly difficult to manage the traffic, comments, and support questions as the popularity of the plugin grew. Hopefully, this new website will help people use and enjoy the plugin even more. So, if you’re looking for the plugin, go to www.WPImageRotator.com for download. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for supporting the plugin!
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
NOTICE: The location of this plugin has been moved to www.WPImageRotator.com, a new site dedicated totally for the plugin! Please go there to get the plugin.
After a long time, I finally have gotten off my lazy behind and updated my original Header Image Rotator plugin for Wordpress. I included a bunch of user submitted suggestions, optimized the code, and hopefully have created a more enjoyable and intuitive end-user experience. I listed some of the changes below. Enjoy!
- Certified to work with WP 2.5
- Streamlined the install process
- Cleaned up the options panel interface and made it easier to understand
- Cleaned up and organized error and exception handling
- Users now have the ability to change the CSS header tag directly from the plugin option page instead of having to manually edit the php file
- Users now also have the ability to manage and change the CSS image styling directly from the plugin option page so you can get the image to play nice with your theme
- Hyperlinking to your blog URL was added. Further, hyperlinking can be turned on and off from the options panel for more flexibility
- You can specify to use either the Google AJAX API to serve the jQuery javascript libraries or you can use a local version provided with the plugin. With this choice, you can select which method is better depending on your performance or bandwidth concerns
NOTICE: The location of this plugin has been moved to www.WPImageRotator.com, a new site dedicated totally for the plugin! Please go there to get the plugin.
I recently finished my first Wordpress plugin titled the “Header Image Rotator”. What does it do? Well, like the title says, it rotates your blog header images. Why is this one different you may ask? Well, after being disappointed by the limited functionality of other header image plugins, I decided to create my own plugin.
Features:
- Add as many images as you like.
- Will take any kind of image file (jpg, gif, etc).
- The interval at which the images are rotated can be controlled.
- Different rotation intervals are minute, half hour, hour, daily, and weekly.
- You can preview your images and delete them from the option panel.
- Certified and tested in Wordpress 2.5.
- Works with PHP 4 and PHP 5.
- Streamlined the install process
- Cleaned up the options panel interface and made it easier to understand
- Cleaned up and organized error and exception handling
- Users now have the ability to change the CSS header tag directly from the plugin option page instead of having to manually edit the php file
- Users now also have the ability to manage and change the CSS image styling directly from the plugin option page so you can get the image to play nice with your theme
- Hyperlinking to your blog URL was added. Further, hyperlinking can be turned on and off from the options panel for more flexibility
- You can specify to use either the Google AJAX API to serve the jQuery javascript libraries or you can use a local version provided with the plugin. With this choice, you can select which method is better depending on your performance or bandwidth concerns
Installation:
Installation is simple and easy. Here are the steps:
- Download the zip file and unzip it into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Create a directory in your /wp-content/ folder named “header-images”.
- Add some images into the “header-images” folder.
- Activate the plugin from the admin panel.
- Go to ‘Options’ in the admin panel, and then ‘Header Image Rotator’ to configure.
- Enjoy!
Version History
Version 1.0 – 1/18/07
Plugin released and made compatible with PHP 4.
Version 1.1 – 3/7/07
Fixes function names that were interfering with other Wordpress Plugins.
Version 2.0 – 7-13-2008
Too many updates to list. Hence, the new version number!