Image Rotator

Download

http://github.com/voceconnect/image-rotator/downloads

About

The Image-Rotator plug-in adds the ability to insert an image rotation panel into a WordPress blog. The plug-in features a management page which allows any users with upload privileges to easily manage the images used by the plug-in.

We originally developed the Image-Rotator plugin solely for use on Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (SCEA) PlayStation.Blog to randomly feature a collection of image-based panels on their home page. Thanks to SCEA’s desire to contribute back to the WordPress community, we are able to offer this plugin for public consumption.

Change Log

• ver. 1.5.2
  • Readme changes.
  • Author changes.
• ver. 1.5.1
  • Removed extra slash on front end URLS with links.
• ver. 1.5
  • Improved stripping of forward slashes in url to keep paths from getting double slashes.
  • Fixed issue with false error reporting after uploading new image with the same name while editing an image.
  • Reformatted code as class to cleanup global space
• ver. 1.4
  • Fixed divide by zero error
  • Added short code handling. To implement short code add the following to your post/page: [ir_image_rotator group=goupname]
• ver. 1.3
  • Modified admin references to go through tools.php instead of edit.php
  • In order for the latest version to work with WP < 2.7, replace all references of 'tools.php' with 'edit.php'
• ver. 1.2
  • Added Groups
  • Modified widget integration to allow for multiple instances
• ver. 1.11
  • Changed imgLink field to varchar(255) to make table compatible with older version of mysql
• ver. 1.1
  • Click counter added
  • Corrected database issues during install in WP 2.5
  • Added Widget Handling

Installation

1. Note: The Image-Rotator Plugin requires WordPress 2.7 or greater
2. Upload the Image-Rotator to your plug-ins directory, usually wp-content/plugins to create a wp-content/plugins/image-rotator/ directory.
3. Activate the plug-in through the Plug-ins admin screen.
4. Go to the Options->Image-Rotator page to set the directory where uploaded images should be saved. The default is the currently set upload directory.

Adding to a Theme

The image rotator plugin now has a widget option which allow it to be added to the sidebar of widget enabled themes. Alternatively, you can add the plugin directly to theme as described below:

1. Open the theme file containing the content where the rotating image should be inserted, usually wp-content/themes/ /index.php or wp-content/themes/ /single.php
2. Add this code wherever you would like the image rotation to appear (note- the space between < and ?php should not be there, our WP install keeps adding it and we haven't had a chance to fix it):

   < ?php if(function_exists('print_rotating_image')){
   
     print_rotating_image();
   
   }?>
   

Adding Images

After activating the Image-Rotator plug-in, the images can be managed via the Manage -> Image-Rotator Page. Each image added has the following options:

• Title: alt text for the image.
• Link/URL: (optional) will add a hyperlink to the image.
• Active: when active the image is included in the random selection.
• Image: the image file. Feel free to upload gifs, jpgs or pngs.
• Group: the group name the image which the image belongs.

Give Feedback / Report Issues

http://github.com/voceconnect/image-rotator/issues