Erik released a simple Plugin to generate a countdown for an upcoming event. All it does is output the days left, and all you have to do is to set the date in the admins' control panel. Get the file here: CountDown for LightPress
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I would like to bring you today a new plugin for LightPress. It's about an new plugin for showing your twitter posts on your blog. It's very easy to install and fully configurable. This plugin has five parameters:
twitter_id: Here you must to indicate your user id
count: Number of posts that you wanna show it
screen_name: Your screen name
image: If you wanna show your profile image
name: If you wanna show your name
Download | Twitter Plugin for LightPress
More info | AlfonsoJimenez.com (Spanish)
Our friend Omar has published Footnotes Plugin for LightPress on the LP support forum. It's a plugin that allows us to include footnotes on ours posts. More info at toomuchcookies.net
Installation
From LightPress root directory
1) Copy footnotes.php in /plugins
2) Copy footnotes.xml in /themes/XXXX/YYYY/plugins/ (XXXX and YYYY correspond to current theme and lang-codification respectively)
3) Activate the plugin from WP-Admin
4) To write a footnote, just add ((This is the footnote))
Features
1) You can change both the hook and the appearance of a footnote in the plugin-management
2) To change the look of the footnotes block you'd have to change the template 'footnote.xml'
3) You can even change the position of the footnotes block. For example to put the footnotes in the sidebar:
add {PLUGIN_FOOTNOTES} to the sidebar at the desired position
in the plugin management page, set 'templateready' to '1'
Download
Download | Footnotes Plugin for LightPress
... continuedBased on Share This Plugin for WordPress by Alex King, I've decided to develop a version of Share This Plugin for LightPress. Share This is a plugin that allows share your content via social bookmarking sites. More info at AlfonsoJimenez.com (spanish)
Installation in 8 easy steps
From LightPress root directory
1) Copy ShareThis.php in /plugins
2) Copy sharethis.xml in /themes/XXXX/YYYY/plugins/ (XXXX and YYYY correspond to current theme and lang-codification respectively)
3) Copy sharethis.js in your javascript directory
4) Copy sharethis.css in your CSS directory
5) Copy folder /icons in your images directory
6) Add to headers these lines (change YOURXXXDIRECTORY!):
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" xsrc="YOURJSDIRECTORY/sharethis.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" xhref="YOURCSSDIRECTORY/sharethis.css" type="text/css" />
window.onload = function() {sharethis.init('{plugin_sharethis_path_icons}');
}
7) Copy between <!-- BEGIN post -> and <!- END post -->
{PLUGIN_SHARETHIS}
8) Activate the plugin from WP-Admin and enjoy it ;)
Download
Download | Share This Plugin for LightPress
I have just finished writing the first draft of the documentation for plugin authors. Leave here any comments or suggestions for improvement.
... continuedYesterday I committed the new Gallery plugin by Sergi March that supports embedding Gallery2 images in Lightpress. The plugin is contained in the latest nightly. Thanks Sergi!
Those of you waiting for a stable 2.0 release can go ahead and download the nightly archive, as the only thing I expect to change before 2.0 is the installation instructions, as the fine folks at WeblogsSL have helped spot and fix quite a few bugs, and the WP2.x compatible code now seems stabler than previous versions.
... continuedIn the latest nightly build, together with lots of fixes and improvements. Getting ready for a 2.0 release.
... continuedWork on WP 2.0 compatibility is mostly completed, and has been already merged to the trunk. You can now test Lightpress with WP 2.x using one of our nightly tarballs.
I have also made substantial changes to the administration interface, simplified the installation process, and made use of some of the WP 2.0 changes to the DB layout to further improve our rendering speed.
New plugins you get in the nightly tarballs:
The most important change in this release is the new formatting function used for post and comments, that adds full XHTML support to Lightpress, as you can see on my Italian blog. You can read more about the evolution of this function in this thread on the forum. Thanks to Shadow Seraph for pointing this out.
This release fixes the few remaining reference warnings (remember to disable error display on production sites), and adds the new CommentsList plugin to list the latest comments.
Download: from our downloads page
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A couple of months ago, Jerome wrote a quick and dirty WP plugin to display the data logged to MySQL from our Stats plugin. We never got around to release it, always hoping to find the time to add some extra functionality. As time is always short, and lp-stats may be useful to some of you, I have decided to release it while Jerome is on vacation. :) It's not even an alpha release, but I have been using it for quite some time without any problems.
Patrick has just released the first user-contributed plugin for LightPress: TagSidebar. It will work only on the 1.2.0 alpha release, and will be included in the next alpha (beta?) if Patrick has nothing against it. Thanks, Patrick!
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