EntreDroppers
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
Drew on April 10th, 2008
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I knew you’d make another great widget. Thanks Owen!!!
StanHayes on April 10th, 2008
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Very cool. Well done, Entrecarder.
nick on April 11th, 2008
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love this one… gonna promote it now..
Lenny on April 11th, 2008
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Looking forward to trying it out sounds, like a great idea.
Michael on April 11th, 2008
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Very cool addition.
FruityOaty on April 12th, 2008
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How do you make the links appear “nofollow”?
Owen on April 12th, 2008
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@FruityOaty: Is nofollow important for you? If so, I’ll add it as an option for the plugin
John Sullivan on April 12th, 2008
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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
Marty on April 12th, 2008
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Thank you Owen. Great plug-in. I just downloaded it and installed. Great way to give some “link love” to your entrecard droppers.
FruityOaty on April 12th, 2008
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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.
FruityOaty on April 12th, 2008
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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…
Owen on April 12th, 2008
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@FruityOaty: Sure .. the nofollow thing will be quite easy, can probably get it out tonight. Will look into the unique request too
nick on April 13th, 2008
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Is it possible to show the top droppers and not the latest droppers? I guess that will be more encouraging..
Jen on April 14th, 2008
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Thanks for this. Just about to install it.
Jen on April 14th, 2008
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Mine isn’t working. Any idea why?
Owen on April 15th, 2008
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@Jen: You’ll have to be a bit more specific than that. What problems are you having?
ozwebhub on April 15th, 2008
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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
Owen on April 15th, 2008
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@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?
ozwebhub on April 15th, 2008
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I’m using
http://entrecard.com/feeds/inbox/CY7Q728SQT/rss2.0
I also discovered it in Options so just updated that. Still no luck
Owen on April 15th, 2008
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@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
Len on April 15th, 2008
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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!
Owen on April 16th, 2008
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@Len: Yup, it’s on the request list, just after a nofollow option for the links
Owen on April 19th, 2008
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@FruityOaty: New version out, that allows you to tag Droppers as NoDollow.
Enjoy
Fool on April 19th, 2008
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Thanks! Great!
FruityOaty on April 20th, 2008
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Thanks for doing the nofollow request. Sweet.
Owen on April 20th, 2008
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@FruityOaty: Pleasure .. any other requests, just post here !
Pinay Mommy on April 21st, 2008
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this is wonderful but unfortunately…i am a blogger user…boohoo!!
MECU on April 25th, 2008
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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?
Owen on April 26th, 2008
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@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 …
pinoyskull on May 16th, 2008
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Great plug-in, i integrated it to my blog not as a widget but as a page.
I am not a programmer so I dunno how to customize your program, I want it to display the title a little bit bigger and in boldface.
How can I do that?
raxso on May 20th, 2008
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Great plugin…
Peter Answers on June 15th, 2008
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I’m sold on this concept, I have now installed the plugin. Thanks!
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Bizphere - My Top Ten Entrecard Droppers For May on June 20th, 2008
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ika on June 24th, 2008
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thanks. this helps much, i am gonna put this on my blog..
jackie on June 26th, 2008
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very helpful, this is a very neat plug in.
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Rev on July 5th, 2008
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Great pluggin there , thanks for this
jackie on July 5th, 2008
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super cool plugin, works great!
Geoserv on July 6th, 2008
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Not owrking for me. After placing it in my sidebar, nothing shows up except the “Powered by” link.
I have triple checked the RSS url and its correct.
I have disabled this plugin becuase I refuse to give you a backlink for a plugin that doesn’t work.
Owen on July 7th, 2008
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@Geoserv: Last time I saw something like that, the hosting company that the website was running on was blocking any HTTP requests from the website to Entrecard. You’ll see it mentioned somewhere in these comments.
Can you raise a ticket with your host to enquire if this is the case
Owen
Michael on July 10th, 2008
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I have this set up on one blog and it imports the drop list with no problem. I have just set up a new blog with GoDaddy, and it will not import the rss feed. The working set up is not at GoDaddy. Anyone know if they would block something like this? I haven’t heard back from their support system yet about it.
Geoserv on July 17th, 2008
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For some reason its working now.
Is there anyway to show a thumb of their card next to their name? Obviously not the full size card, but maybe one resized to 30×30.
Owen on July 18th, 2008
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@Geoserv: At this moment, the short answer is no, I don’t think that information is even supplied in the RSS feed. I’ll look into it though and see if I can come up with a workaround
Tom on July 29th, 2008
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This is quite a clever plug-in. Thanks for sharing it with us.
BloggerBoy on August 5th, 2008
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SuperB plugin indeed.
Btw i really like the colors of your blog theme quite appealing.
tipis learn english » Blog Archive on August 11th, 2008
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Geoserv on August 13th, 2008
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Owen,
I got it to work, not sure how, but its working.
I posted a thread over at EC regarding images in the RSS feed, I will let you know what happens.
Patty on August 20th, 2008
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Any possibility of finding or creating something like this for the blogger users?
I eventually plan to switch to wordpress, just haven’t had the time.
Mike on September 1st, 2008
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Great plugin! I have implemented it on my site..
Samson Delila on September 4th, 2008
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Great widget for EC’ers! Thanks for make this, bro!
Owen on September 4th, 2008
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Thanks mate. Tell all your friends about it
Dennis Edell on September 22nd, 2008
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Very cool widget indeed, thanks.
I just subscribed to your blog
Ash on September 22nd, 2008
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Thanks ! I was on the look out for some good widgets.
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Erik on October 7th, 2008
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Owen,
Great tools for Entredroppers. I’ll put this on mine.
Thanks.
Marketing Business Review on October 13th, 2008
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The plugin worked perfectly fine in my right hand side widget bar.
Great plugin, im blogging about it,
Thanks
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