=== ADVANCED WIDGET PACK === Developer: WPInsite Version: 1.4 Tags: wordpress, plugin, widget, posts, random, latest, popular, contact, author, flickr, feedburner, video, google maps Requires at least: WordPress 2.8 Tested up to: 3.4 CodeCanyon Item Page: http://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-widget-pack The Advanced Widget Pack WordPress plugin is a pack of popular high quality widgets that allows you boost your blog SEO by displaying you most popular, recent, random posts in your sidebars. Display your blog contact information for clients to easily get in touch. Enable visitors to subscribe to your Feedburner RSS Feed. Display your favorite Flickr photos. Display a custom Google Map. Embed your favorite video directly into your WordPress blog. Display your latest Twitter Tweets in two different formats. Display your popular posts, recent posts, latest comment and tags in a jQuery tabbed interface. Display archived posts by month in two seperate formats. Display a list of blog categories. Display a list of your blog page. Display a list of your blog authors. Display unlimited 125px advertisements. == Description == Advanced Widget Pack is an all-in-one widget plugin pack that easily allows you to display the most common widgets in you WordPress blog sidebars. Advanced Widget Pack is an all-in-one widget plugin pack that easily allows you to display the most common widgets in you WordPress blog sidebars. Widgets are responsive. You can determine the width of the widget in "pixels" or "percentage". Custom posts types supported. Each widget has been visually styled to the utmost highest quality ensuring visual appeal to your blog. All CSS styling is maintained in a single well commented CSS file allowing for easy modification of the style. The first three widgets allow for display of your blog's latest posts, most popular posts and the ability to display random posts therefore increasing exposure to older posts and articles. Thumbnail images are automatically created for each post using the TimThumb script. The Widget has been developed to he highest quality standards and tested in all major modern browsers. Some of the Special features: - You can determine the widgets width in "pixels" or "percentage or leave the width blank for a reponsive layout. - Display your blog's latest posts. You determine the amount of posts to display. - Display your blog's most popular posts. Determined by the amount of post comments. You determine the amount of posts to display. - Supports custom post types. - Display a user determined amount of random posts. You determine the amount of posts to display. - Ability to display thumbnail images next to latest, poplar and random posts. You have the ability to disable this feature if not required. - If no image is avalable for a certain post, a default image will be displayed. - Add and display you blog contact details in a visually appealing sidebar widget. - Display the blog address, phone number, fax number, email address and website url. - Have the option to display icons next to contact details or hide if not required. - Allow visitors to subscribe to your Feedburner RSS Feed via email. - Display a desired amount of photos from your favorite Flickr account. - Option to use the jQuery "ColorBox" library to view photos. Included with plugin. - Display a custom Google Map. - Embed your favorite video directly into your WordPress blog. - Display your latest Twitter Tweets in two different formats. - Display Twitter Follow button to gain more Twitter Followers. - Display your popular posts, recent posts, latest comment and tags in a jQuery tabbed interface. - Display archived posts by month in two seperate formats. - Display two seperate formatted lists of blog categories. - Display two seperate formatted lists of blog pages. - Display a list of your blog authors - Multiple widgets configurations - Inherits CSS styles from current active theme - fonts and colors Plugin's homepage http://www.wpinsite.com/portfolio-view/advanced-widget-pack == Installation == Automatic Installation Method Please refer to Advanced Widget Pack documentation located in the documentation folder provided with this plugin for detailed information and screencast. Manual installation is easy and takes fewer than a few minutes. - Unzip plugin file. - Upload the the plugin folder "advanced-widget-pack" (not just the files in it!) to your `wp-content/plugins` folder. If you're using FTP, use 'binary' mode. - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. - Navigate to the WordPress Dashboard widgets page, view the new available widgets. Drag the required widget(s) onto one of your WordPress theme sidebars and configure its specific settings. Please refer to Advanced Widget Pack documentation located in the documentation folder provided with this plugin for detailed configuration settings and screencast. - A few of the settings have a default value, replace if necessary. Hover over text-field labels for details descriptions and instructions. - You're done. Enjoy. == Configuration & Usage == The plugin is simple to use and only requires a few inputs fields completed to use all of it's available features. After you have activated the plugin and navigated to the Widgets page in your WordPress Dashboard, you will be presented with the new available widgets available for your theme. To use the plugin in your theme file simply drag any of the required widgets into one of your theme sidebars. Once you have dragged the widget over to your theme sidebar the widget option will expand. Read the below settings guide to get an understanding of what each option does. After you have added / edited or deleted any of the configuration setting click on the "Save" button located at the bottom of the widget panel for the changes to take effect. The Widget Settings This is the core of the Advanced Widget Pack WordPress plugin. Here you can configure all the settings for the plugin and each individual widget. Advanced Latest Posts Widget: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Latest Posts". - Post Type: Supports custom post types. Select the post type to display the listings for. Default = "posts". - Display thumbnail images: You can define whether you wish to display the post thumbnail image next to each post. If checked and no image available, a default image is displays and is provided with plugin. - Choose the categories: Here you are presented with a dropdown list of all the available categories for your blog. You can determine to display the latest posts from all categories or a single category. - Number of Posts to display: You define the amount of latest posts to display for the widget. Options range from 1 - 10 posts. - Amount of characters to display before trunicating entry: You can specify the total amount of characters to display for the post title. When the character limit is reached the '...' characters will be displayed. For readability a limit of 35 characters is recommended. Advanced Popular Posts Widget: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Popular Posts". - Post Type: Supports custom post types. Select the post type to display the listings for. Default = "posts". - Display thumbnail images: You can define whether you wish to display the post thumbnail image next to each post. If checked and no image available, a default image is displays and is provided with plugin. - Choose the categories: Here you are presented with a dropdown list of all the available categories for your blog. You can determine to display the popular posts from all categories or a single category. - Number of Posts to display: You define the amount of popular posts to display for the widget. Options range from 1 - 10 posts. - Amount of characters to display before trunicating entry: You can specify the total amount of characters to display for the post title. When the character limit is reached the '...' characters will be displayed. For readability a limit of 35 characters is recommended. Advanced Random Posts Widget: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Random Posts". - Post Type: Supports custom post types. Select the post type to display the listings for. Default = "posts". - Display thumbnail images: You can define whether you wish to display the post thumbnail image next to each post. If checked and no image available, a default image is displays and is provided with plugin. - Choose the categories: Here you are presented with a dropdown list of all the available categories for your blog. You can determine to display the random posts from all categories or a single category. - Number of Posts to display: You define the amount of random posts to display for the widget. Options range from 1 - 10 posts. - Amount of characters to display before trunicating entry: You can specify the total amount of characters to display for the post title. When the character limit is reached the '...' characters will be displayed. For readability a limit of 35 characters is recommended. Contact Info: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Contact Info". - Address: Enter your complete contact address. - Phone: Enter your phone number. - Fax: Enter your fax number. - Email: Enter your email address. - Website URL: Enter your complete website URL. ie http://www.envato.com - Display icons next to address details: Decide whether to display small icons next to each address field. Feedburner Subscribe: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Subscribe via Email". - Feedburner ID: Enter your Feedburner ID. ie envato Flickr Feed: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Flickr Photos". - Flickr ID: Enter the Flickr ID of the photos album you widh to display. Use the 'idGettr" link to help obtain the ID if necessary. - Number of photos: Enter the amount of photos you wish to be displayed. - Include ColorBox jQuery library: Select this option to have the photos load in the jQuery ColorBox popup script. Library is included with plugin. Un unchecked Photos will load in the Flickr website. Google Maps: - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Google Maps". - Width: Enter the width of the map you wish to display in pixels. - Height: Enter the height of the map you wish to display in pixels. - Latitude: Insert the latitude of the map coordinates. Use the link to find the latitude if required. ie. 34.148007 - Longitude: Insert the longitude of the map coordinates. Use the link to find the longitude if required. ie. 34.148007 Video Embed: - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Latest Video". - Video URL: Enter the complete url of your video. - Video Width in pixels: Enter the width you wish the video to be displayed at in pixels. i.e 250 - Description: Enter a description for the video. This will be displayed directly under the video. Latest Twitter Tweets: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Latest Tweets". - Tweet Styling: Select the CSS styling you wish applied to the tweets. Options are "Normal" or "Bubbled". - Open timestamp in new window: Determine whether you wish the timestamp links to be opened in a new browser window or in the current window. - Twitter Username: Enter your Twitter username. - Number of tweets to display: Using the availale options select how many tweets you wish to display. - Exclude @replies: Exclude displaying Twitter replies. - Display time of tweet: Select whether you wish to display the time of the tweet. - Display Twitter Follow button: Select whther you wish for a Twitter Follow button to be available under each list of tweets. The Twitter Follow button is linked to you Twitter username. Tabbed Posts: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Display popular posts: uncheck to disable popular posts tab. - Display "" popular posts: Enter the amount of popular posts you wish to display. - Display thumbnails images for popular posts: Select whether to display a thumbnail image next to each post. If no image is available, a default image will be displayed. - Display recent posts: uncheck to disable recent posts tab. - Display "" recent posts: Enter the amount of recent posts you wish to display. - Display thumbnails images for recent posts: Select whether to display a thumbnail image next to each post. If no image is available, a default image will be displayed. - Display comments: uncheck to disable comments tab. - Display "" comments: Determine how many comments you wish to display. - Display tag cloud: uncheck to disable tag cloud tab. - Display "" tags: Determine how many tags you wish to display. - Order tags by: Select how you wish the tag cloud to be ordered by. Options are by tag name or by post count. Archived Posts: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Archives". - Format: Select the format applied to the archived posts. Options are as list or dropdown list.. - Display post count next to each month name: Select whether to display the post count next to each month name. - Display an image icon next to each month name: If you selected to display the archives in normal list format, you can opt to display an image icon next to each month name. Categories: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Categories". - Format: Select the format applied to the categories. Options are as list or dropdown list.. - Display post count next to each category name: Select whether to display the post count next to each category name. - Display an image icon next to each category name: If you selected to display the categories in normal list format, you can opt to display an image icon next to each category name. - Hide empty categories: Select whether to hide empty categories from the list of categories. Pages: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Pages". - Format: Select the format applied to the pages. Options are as list or dropdown list.. - Sort pages by: Select the order in which you wish the pages to be listed by. Options are "Page title", "Menu order" or "Page Id".. - Exclude pages: Enter a comma seperated list of page you wish excluded from being displayed - Display an image icon next to each page name: If you selected to display the pages in normal list format, you can opt to display an image icon next to each page name. Authors: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Authors". - Format: Select the format applied to the author list. Options are as list or dropdown list. - Sort authors by: Select the order in which you wish the authors to be listed by. Options are "Display name", "Preferred name" or "Author Id".. - Exclude authors: Enter a comma seperated list of authors you wish excluded from being displayed - Display post count next to each author name: Select whether to display the number of post by that author next to each author name. - Hide authors with no posts: Select whether to hide or display those authors that have not created any posts. - Display an image icon next to each author name: If you selected to display the authors in normal list format, you can opt to display an image icon next to each authors name. Advertisements: - Widget Width: You can determine the width of the widget container. Adding a width will keep the widget at a fixed width. Leave this field blank to make it responsive. - Widget Title: You can change the default title of the widget. The default title is: "Authors". - Ads: Insert unlimited ads in the textfield. One ad per line. Hit the keyboard "enter" key to jump to a new line. The ads follow this pattern: URL | Image URL | Image Alt Text | Rel - URL: The full URL you want the advertisement to link to i.e http://www.wpinsite.com - Image URL: The full URL of your advertisement image. i.e http://www.wpinsite.com/ads/ad-1.jpg. - Image Alt Text: The alternate text you want displayed with the advertisement image. ie "My advertisement banner". - Rel: Whether you want the linked to be followed or nofollowed. - Open ad links in a new window: When ads are clicked determine whether to have the ads opened in a new browser window. == Frequently Asked Questions == = How do I change the default "No Image available" icon = In the widget folder there is a folder called "images". Inside this folder you will find a 75px by 75px .png image called "nothumb.png". Simply create your own .png image with the same name and dimensions and copy it to the images folder overwriting the original. == Requirements == In order to work, Advanced Social Widget WordPress plugin needs the following requirements: - WordPress release 2.8+ - PHP version 5+ == Support == For any support or suggestion please feel free to contact me via my user page contact form or visit the WPInsite website or on the CodeCanyon.com Forum. I'll try to reply as soon as possible. == Changelog == 6 Nov 2012 * v1.4 - Fixed various bugs when running in wp_debug mode. - Replaced fancy checkboxes with more stable code. - Fixed W3C validation errors. 8 Oct 2012 * v1.3 - Fixed a bug when linking to the plugin CSS styles and JavaScript. - Replaced and redesigned Tabbed Posts widget. - Updated TimThumb to latest version. 19 Aug 2012 * v1.2.1 - Fixed a bug where the tabbed post widget was not calling the snippet_text function correctly to shorten the "comments" text. 16 Aug 2012 * v1.2 - Redesigned JavaScript functions pages adding jQuery noConflict wrapper for less conflict with other plugins. - Removed supplied jQuery UI Framework and now call on WordPress built-in jQuery. 20 May 2012 * v1.1 - Added option to determine between pixels and percentage when entering widget widths. - Added custom post type support. - Added jQuery ColorBox library option for Flickr photos. 18 May 2012 * v1.0 Initial release.