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RSS Image Widget

I’ve just created a new widget as a plugin using the Simplepie WordPress plugin for the RSS feed logic.

You can specify how many images you want to display, and a sample template is provided to get you started, though it should be more than good enough for what you need.

It comes with the latest version of PHPThumb to generate good-looking thumbnails. You can see the value 150 in the sample template – this sets the width – a value you may change yourself.

Download – RSS Image Widget:

RSS Image Widget – download here.

SimplePie Core

SimplePie by Itself:

SimplePie WordPress Plugin (Required for this widget to work)

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Posted By: admin on 27/02/2008
Category: RSS Image Widget
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Credo Trust – QuickShop Plugin, Theme

Credo TrustCredo Trust was designed as a mini shopping cart site. It uses posts to collate the products and the NextGen gallery for images, as well as search-engine friendly plugins and the WP-GBCF form.

I created a plugin called QuickShop for this site which works by allowing you to put a tag in your post with the name of your product. This generates a form button called ‘Add to Cart’ which puts the product into the cart. I also created a sidebar widget for the plugin which shows the items currently in the cart. When the user is ready, all they need to do is go to the contact page or click on ‘Proceed to Checkout’. I made this link to the contact form where I integrated WP-GBCF, a contact form plugin for WordPress, into QuickShop. The contents of the cart are loaded into the body of the message with amounts allowing for the customer to easily edit everything, and upon sending the form the cart is cleared. This is fine as the client wishes to use direct debit only.

Posted By: admin on 10/10/2007
Category: Portfolio
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Zeta Prints WordPress Theme

Zeta PrintsZeta Prints was the first WordPress theme in which I used multiple RSS feeds. The client required completely random feeds each page load but wanted very little download/waiting time to be aparrent to the user (basically a pre-cache). What I did was modify the hacked WordPress version of Magpie RSS to include another constant that allowed a PHP script at the end of the page load to flush the already-generated HTML to the client, clear the Magpie RSS cache, and then load the new feed(s).

It works really quite well and the only major wait apparent after you initially view the page is quite short regardless. Cron jobs and Javascript-based AJAX updates were out of the question for this project due to the client’s special needs.

This site also includes a set of posts which show certain link categories depending on post view, and several other bits and pieces of WordPress template magic.

Client’s Review:

“Zack is just awesome. 1. he knows what he’s doing. 2.if he doesn’t know, he goes and finds out. We had some minor technology problems and he put extra hours to resolve them. All done on time and with the highest quality. Highly recommend.” – Max

Posted By: admin on 25/05/2007
Category: Portfolio