WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0037

Title: World Cup Predictor

Author: Ian Haycox

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

This plugin is designed to collect users predictions for each of the matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Users predict the score for each World Cup match in the group and knockout stages and are awarded points based on the accuracy of their prediction.

Match results may also be displayed using this plugin.

New in V1.2

Ability for users to toggle match kickoff times between South African and browser local time. Manually order Group tables in the event that FIFA draw lots. Countdown timer message can be customized to use local language conventions. Display all users predictions for all matches with one shortcode.

Features

• easy adding of matches, venues, results
• entry form for users to make predictions on each World Cup games
• sidebar widget to display prediction standings
• sidebar widget to display currently logged in users’ predictions
• countdown timer to next prediction deadline
• display of match results and group tables
• configurable scoring system to award points to users’ predictions
• toggle match times to local users browser time

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0036

Title: ShareBar

Author: Monjurul Dolon

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

Big Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px (or whatever value you set).

When Auto mode (enabled in settings) is ON, the Sharebars are added automatically. When Auto mode is off, you must manually add the sharebar code to your template files:

• Vertical (next to post) Sharebar: <?php sharebar(); ?>
• Horizontal Sharebar: <?php sharebar_horizontal(); ?>

You can also call an individual button in any template by using the following code (where size is either big or small): <?php sharebar_button('name','size'); ?>

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0035

Title: Make PDF Newspaper

Author: Martin Hawksey

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

The ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ plugin replaces the Make Tabbloid to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive 2 column magazine/newspaper format. Development of the original plugin stopped after HP removed API access to their service. The new plugin uses code developed for the Five Filters PDF Newspaper project, which in itself pulls together code from a number of other open source projects including TCPDF, HTML Purifier, SimplePie and SmartyPants

The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by Bluga.net Webthumb) to let your readers see what they are missing.

Key features

• PDF generation entirely self-hosted removing reliance on 3rd party services and making it suitable for Intranet installations of WordPress
• Option to include QR codes for each post
• Customisable banner text and logo
• Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl or bitly to shorten long links)
• Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication
• User controlled production of PDF

See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.

For an example of its usage visit http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/