I knew you’d make another great widget. Thanks Owen!!!
Description
The EntreDroppers plugin give you the ability to show the last few people who dropped their Entrecard on your blog. It is a widget you can easily add to your sidebar and uses information from Entrecard’s website
Usage
The plugin can be used in one of two ways:If you are using widgets, just drag the widget onto the area of the page where you want it to appear.If you aren’s using widget, add the code below to your sidebar template where you would like the button to appear.
Installation
1. Download the plugin file, unzip and place it in your plugin folder.
This makes the plugin available to WordPress and it should now appear in your Plugin folder.
2. Activate the plugin
This “starts up” the plugin, making it available to your presentation files (you know, the ones that make up your theme). At this point, the plugin is active, but WordPress doesn’t know where it should be displaying your Entrecard Droppers
3a. The plugin is widget-aware and will appear in your widget list. Go to your widget screen and add EntreDroppers to the sidebar.
3b. Alternatively, if you don’t use widgets, add this snippet to the sidebar file in your theme:
<?php entredroppers(); ?>
This tells WordPress where to put the widget.
4. Configure the widget
The plugin can be configured both from the Settings pane or from the widget control area, by clicking “Edit” on the widget. Most of the options are self-explanatory, but you will be needing the EntreCard Latest Droppers RSS feed to power the widget. You can get this from your EntreCard dashboard (top right hand corner) as shown in the picture below:
Download
History
v1.0: Base release. Works as per spec.
v1.1: Added ability to mark dropper’s links as NoFollow
Responses
on April 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
By: Drew
(10 comments)
on April 10th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Very cool. Well done, Entrecarder.
By: StanHayes
(1 comments)
on April 11th, 2008 at 5:15 am
love this one… gonna promote it now.. 
By: nick
(4 comments)
on April 11th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Looking forward to trying it out sounds, like a great idea.
By: Lenny
(1 comments)
on April 11th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Very cool addition.
By: Michael
(1 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 1:29 am
How do you make the links appear “nofollow”?
By: FruityOaty
(4 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 4:59 am
@FruityOaty: Is nofollow important for you? If so, I’ll add it as an option for the plugin
By: Owen
on April 12th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hi hey I tried to get at ya on that Google chat it’s either lame and lagging BIG time or you have to many honies trying to chat at you at once,anyway if you get a chance run by that blog I got there and see if you’d be interested in make a simple badge widget etc.And we’ll take it from there.
Nice blog btw that share this is tight
By: John Sullivan
(1 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Thank you Owen. Great plug-in. I just downloaded it and installed. Great way to give some “link love” to your entrecard droppers.
By: Marty
(1 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I already “dofollow” on my comments (after “x” number of comments). I support “dofollow” movement.
However, I’d like to display more than 10 droppers on my sidebar, possibly the last “50″. To answer your question, having “nofollow” option is important for me in this case. I don’t want my sidebar getting spammed by droppers only tempted by “dofollow”.
Thank you very much if you decide to add the “nofollow” option. Much appreciated.
By: FruityOaty
(4 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am
The only other thing I wished it didn’t do is… show duplicate links.
What I mean is, if “Site X” dropped by twice (and both drops was in the last 10 drops), I wish it’d only show up just once and not twice (or more).
As in, last 10 unique droppers. Well, if that’s possible…
By: FruityOaty
(4 comments)
on April 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
@FruityOaty: Sure .. the nofollow thing will be quite easy, can probably get it out tonight. Will look into the unique request too
By: Owen
on April 13th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Is it possible to show the top droppers and not the latest droppers? I guess that will be more encouraging..
By: nick
(4 comments)
on April 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Thanks for this. Just about to install it.
By: Jen
(2 comments)
on April 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Mine isn’t working. Any idea why?
By: Jen
(2 comments)
on April 15th, 2008 at 3:21 am
@Jen: You’ll have to be a bit more specific than that. What problems are you having?
By: Owen
on April 15th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Sorry yes. A bit vague.
Okay I followed all instructions as on this page. One does upload the entire folder into plugins I presume. I activated plugin and went to widgets where it was and filled that in I think.
Does the Read me file tell me other things to do?
I have WP 2.3.3 with a cutline theme
By: ozwebhub
(2 comments)
on April 15th, 2008 at 5:34 am
@Jen: Yeah .. I can see it running on your site, and the fact that there are no droppers shown. Can you tell me what URL you’re using in the RSS feed field?
By: Owen
on April 15th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I’m using
http://entrecard.com/feeds/inbox/CY7Q728SQT/rss2.0
I also discovered it in Options so just updated that. Still no luck
By: ozwebhub
(2 comments)
on April 15th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
@Jen: Hmm .. that URL is correct. Any chance you can allow me admin access to the blog? If so, email me on owen@cutajar.net
By: Owen
on April 15th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Entrecard seems to be having a problem right now listing the same cards multiple times in a row. This results in the same link showing four, six or eight times in a row in my list of recent drops. Is there a way for the plugin to recognize and reject duplicate listings?
Great plugin, by the way. I love it. Thanks!
By: Len
(1 comments)
on April 16th, 2008 at 3:42 am
@Len: Yup, it’s on the request list, just after a nofollow option for the links
By: Owen
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
@FruityOaty: New version out, that allows you to tag Droppers as NoDollow.
Enjoy
By: Owen
on April 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Thanks! Great!
By: Fool
(1 comments)
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Thanks for doing the nofollow request. Sweet.
By: FruityOaty
(4 comments)
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
@FruityOaty: Pleasure .. any other requests, just post here !
By: Owen
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
this is wonderful but unfortunately…i am a blogger user…boohoo!!
By: Pinay Mommy
(1 comments)
on April 25th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
It doesn’t show the drops I’ve had. The RSS url is correct and it shows up on the page, but it doesn’t process the RSS feed correctly. I’m on GoDaddy shared linux, so id there something like CURL or FOPEN that you’re using the GoDaddy might not enable/allow?
By: MECU
(1 comments)
on April 26th, 2008 at 4:17 am
@Mecu: We did have a problem earlier (forgot who’s blog it was), where their ISP’s firewall was configured so not let their website access feeds from the outside world.
Could this be the case for you?
Maybe I need to add a diagnostic to the plugin …
By: Owen
