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Drupal Plugin: Page Ad

Binny V A — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:00:21 +0000

This is my first Drupal plugin – so I’m not sure how much mistakes I have made in creating this. Page Ad module allows the admin to add advertisement specific to a page. It will create a textarea in the edit/create page of content. Whatever HTML you type into it will be shown in a block anywhere on the client side display of that page.

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Note: This module is for Drupal 5. I have not tested it in Drupal 6.

Note 2: I will not provide support for this plugin. If you run into any trouble, you are on your own.

Installation

Download and extract the module
Upload the module to sites/all/modules folder of Drupal.
Enable the module from the admin side
Edit the node.tpl.php template file and insert the code where you want the block to show up.
Edit the template.php file and add the code 'page_ad' => t('Page Specific Ad') in the returning array for the regions function.
Go to the block configuration page and set the ‘Page Specific Ad’ block with the ‘Page Specific Ad’ region.

This is a plugin that I created to learn a bit about Drupal. I did this quite a while ago. It may have a lot of error – because I’m not an expert in Drupal. I don’t use it much.

Screenshot

This is how the admin side will look…

Plugin Week 2

This plugin is part of the Plugin Week 2 series. Plugin Week is a week when I publish a new plugin each day for an entire week. I have already one this one time – so this is Plugin Week 2. The plugins released so far…

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MiniCart WordPress Plugin: Shopping Cart for WordPress

Binny V A — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:04:38 +0000

MiniCart will implement a mini-shopping-cart in your blog. You can add items from the admin side and embed the cart into posts. This can also be used as a donation plugin. By design, you can only show one item in a cart.

If you like this plugin, consider making a donation…

The above donate form is created using the MiniCart plugin. To see an actual cart in action, got the MiniCart Demo page.

Download MiniCart

Features

Supports Paypal
Easy to use interface
You can also embed it directly into a post
One item/cart restriction. This will force the users to focus on just one item.

Installation

Download the zipped file.
Extract and upload the contents of the folder to /wp-contents/plugins/ folder
Enable the plugin from WordPress admin area
Go to Settings > Mini-Cart Setting page and set the paypal id(Make sure this is done).
Go to Tools > Cart Items and create items
Embed the cart in a post by using the code [MINICART item="ID_OF_ITEM"] anywhere in a post/page.
Alternatively, you can use the code [MINICART donate] to show a donation form.

If you have any issues with the plugin, post a thread at the MiniCart Plugin Forum.

Plugin Week

This plugin is part of the Plugin Week 2 series. Plugin Week is a week when I publish a new plugin each day for an entire week. I have already one this one time – so this is Plugin Week 2. This is the second plugin released this week. The first is Weather Man.

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Plugin Week 2: WordPress Plugin – Weather Man

Binny V A — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:58:54 +0000

After the success of Plugin Week, I have decided to do it once again. So, without further ado, Welcome to Plugin Week 2. If you don’t know what a plugin week is, its a week when I publish one plugin per day – for an entire week.

There is one big difference between Plugin Week 1 and Plugin Week 2. In Plugin Week 1, only wordpress plugins where release(they are Eventr, Autofields, Pollin, Surveys, Quartz and Quizzin). This time around, I will not restrict myself to WordPress plugins – I’m going for other software too – expect Drupal plugins, jQuery plugins and more.

I’ll start off with a very simple plugin…

Weather Man WordPress Plugin

Weather Man shows the weather as a widget in the sidebar. You can add the widget using the Widget page under Appearance. Or you can add it in a post using the [weather-man] shortcode anywhere in the post. It uses Yahoo’s Weather API.

Download Plugin

Demo of Weather Man WordPress Plugin

Installation

Download the zipped file.
Extract and upload the contents of the folder to /wp-contents/plugins/ folder
Go to the Plugin management page of WordPress admin section and enable the ‘Weather Man’ plugin
Go to the Widget configuration(under Appearance) and add the Weather Man Widget into any sidebar.
Alternatively, you can add the [weather-man] tag in any post and the Weather Man Widget will show up there.

Screenshots

Feedback

If you have any suggestions or notice any problems with the plugin, post it in the Weather Man Plugin forum.

About Me and Plugin Week

If you are new to this blog(I hope to get many new visitors due to the Plugin Week), I’m Binny. I’m a freelance web developer on the LAMP platform. I specialize in PHP and JavaScript. More about me on my personal site. Plugin Week 2 is an initiative to force myself to a small deadline to write code. It worked great during Plugin Week 1 – so I’m doing it again. Also, I get a lot of visitors during the Plugin Week – that can’t be bad.

If you want to get news about the upcoming plugin releases(remember, 1 per day), please subscribe to this site.

If you like the concept of the Plugin Week or if you found it helpful, consider writing a post about Plugin Week on your blog. If you write a post, please let me know – and I’ll list your post on the last day of the plugin week(it will have a ‘Thank You for your Support’ section).

Next plugin will be released tomorrow.