Post Highlights
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
1. Nice concept and will work if Images are kept the same size in all posts.
2. Starts to look untidy if there is no way to manage the image position in the Post Highlight Banner. It all seems to be aligned Left.
3. Need to be able to select multiple images from a single Post.
4. Need the ability to be able to use multiple image URL’s
Hello Leo & Pedro,
I’ve translated your awesome plugin in Italian. Please, could you send me your email address? I don’t know where send you the .po & .mo files
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Gianni Diurno
hi Gareth..
yes. so far its not possible to change the image position. it just aligns to top-left. Its a good idea to be able to change this, although it would be a tricky interface to allow people to choose the exact position of the image
about 3 and 4 I dont really understand how several images would be used for one post, can you explain that?
Gianni,
penso chè puoi parlare in italiano, anche io sono mezzo-italiano…
This is amazing! Maybe the world record for the fastest translation ever!
cheers
Leo & Pedro
it_IT
Ciao Leo & Pedro,
grazie per il Vostro meraviglioso plugin!
Un caro saluto da Sanremo, Italia
Gianni
en_EN
Hi Leo & Pedro,
thanks so much for your great plugin!
Best regards from Sanremo, Italy
I have problem about Turkish iso-8859 charset. Is there any way to set correct charset?
By the way perfect plugin.
Thanks.
hi Yunus,
Flash has lot of troubles with special characters. The best I can do is send you the .fla and then you see what you can do..
cheers
Leo,,
I see.
Please mail me the file.Maybe i can do something.
cheers
Muito bonito, adorei! obrigadao
I installed the plugin on WordPress 2.7, installed correctly, and selected options correctly but when I click on Highlight the settings area opens up but you can’t see the fields.
hi Larry,
any javascript error?
How about a working demo?
Marko,
http://catracalivre.com.br
http://ludov.com.br
cheers
Leo,,
I installed and setup the plugin but it wont show up on the front page (where i put it on my MainIndex.php file. Any ideas?
What would I need to change in order for this to work for Pages instead of Posts?
Hi Sir
You say in your instructions: This plugin wont work if you moved your wp-config.php file or your wp-content folder from the default location — need to fix this
Does that mean that when I changed to prefix wp_ for the database to 4dham_
the plugin will not work either? Would it be easy to edit this in (hopefully) one file?
ps On above website the swf file is in the footer, but no links, no images, remains loading …
Thanks for your reply
Johan de Groot