Contributors: LeoGermani, PedroGermani
Add a nice looking animated highlights box to you theme, and lets you highlight your posts
Installation
. Download the package
. Extract it to the “plugins” folder of your wordpress
. In the Admin Panes go to “Plugins” and activate it
Usage
Place the following code where you want the highlights to appear on your theme:
<?php if(function_exists(”insert_post_highlights”)) insert_post_highlights(); ?>
To highlight a post go to Manage > Posts and check the checkbox under the Highlight column
Go to Settings > Post Highlights to change some options, such as delay time and the button color.
Post Highlights comes with 7 pre-defined sizes. You can easily create a new one from the .FLA file available at the plugin’s home page.
1. Download the source file here
2. Read and follow the instructions inside the .FLA
3. create a new swf and name it with the width and height (eg: posthighlights300×300.swf)
4. Save the swf in the plugin folder and it will be available as an option in the Settings page.
Screenshots
1. The look of the highlightbox, with a crossfade between the highlights
2. Manage your highlights
Hi Leo & Pedro, this plugin looks great! Thanks for releasing it.
However, after following your Installation and Usage directions, I get a blank white block when I choose to highlight a post in the Edits Posts page. Everything else seems normal — the Settings page works, there are no errors show up in my log. Any ideas?
I am using Wordpress MU 2.8.4.
Hi all,
Sorry for not beein here all the time answering the questions. But Im happy to announce that a 2.0 version is on its way. I got rid of all the flash and now everything is done with jQuery. Also, you will be able to build themes for post highlights, so hopefully we will see lots of flavours coming up.
Ill be back soon with more news on that.
Johan, the plugin will work fine with different table prefixes
Jack, this could be a lot of things. First try, does your images have special characters in their names? Flash doesnt like that very much..
cheers
Leo,,
sorry, but i’ve problem to “Deactivate” your Post Highlight from wordpress.
when i try to select the checkbox for deativate it return me Fatal error: Call to undefined function remove_option() in /…wordpress/wp-content/plugins/post-highlights/post-highlights.php on line 49
i’d really appreciate your feedback
regards