Archive for the 'Widgets' Category
April 8th, 2008 by Daiko
I’ve updated the Daiko’s YouTube Widget with support for “Post in Category(-ies)” conditional testing. That means that you will be able to specify that the widget will only display on certain posts belonging to certain category (or categories). The widget will also display on the respective Category archive pages.
Please enjoy and report any problems with it. Since this widget actually includes two widgets (the videoplayer also), make sure you test the flexibility of being able to change the way you display the video’s from the various YouTube widgets you have running.
Download it here: Daiko’s YouTube Widget
Have fun! 
April 4th, 2008 by Daiko
After a question from one of my users I’ve included an additional conditional tag option in the widget that shows the widget only on posts belonging to a specific category or even a collection of categories. It will also display on the respective category archives.
Check it out and please give me feedback on it’s functionality.
You find it here.
November 19th, 2007 by Daiko
I’ve been trying hard to find a good CSS solution to the play button issue in IE with limited luck. That is why I’ve now decided to provide you all with an update that will work on all plattforms (I guess). I’ve decided to put the video thumbnail in as a background image and use a transparent gif play button on top. The only problem with this solution is that you loose control over the size of the background image, thus just get a cropped view of the thumbnail when using the small and medium size thumbnails.
The other update is that I’ve made sure that the widget doesn’t display any before and after widget code on pages you don’t show the widget using conditional tags. It still displays comment code to assist users in debugging.
Tell me what you think and if you css freaks out there have a better solution, give me a shout.
Get version 1.2.3 of Daiko’s YouTube Widget here.
November 19th, 2007 by Daiko
On the recommendation of Katja I’ve updated Daiko’s Text Widget so that it only displays comment code (and not the before and after code) on pages/posts where it is not displaying. I’ve kept the comment code because you might have many text-widgets running and might want to be able to check the source for the various widgets.
Go grab version 0.9.3 here.
Have fun!
November 12th, 2007 by Daiko
I have brushed up Daiko’s YouTube Widget with a couple of small, but important, fixes.
- It now produces valid XHTML code - Sorry for not doing that right away
- It will now also show the video if you only insert 1 single video - I didn’t even know that until I got noticed by one of my users since it was always meant to show many.
So go grab your very own copy of the widget and have fun!
October 30th, 2007 by Daiko
I just wanted to let you know that Daiko’s YouTube Widget just reached 1000 downloads after it’s first month in the public domain. You can follow the download development at Wordpress.org. You can of course also download it there. And don’t worry I keep the same versions here if you’ve downloadet it at daikos.net.
Enjoy the widget and keep those bug reports and feature requests coming.
October 27th, 2007 by Daiko
I learned that the widget didn’t play well with installations where wordpress was installed in a different folder than the home page. I tried to fix that and thought I had solved it in version 1.1.10. Well that wasn’t exactly true. Now it should be alright though. Give version 1.1.11 a spin instead. Go download the latest version of Daiko’s YouTube Widget here.
October 26th, 2007 by Daiko
I’ve just updated Daiko’s YouTube Widget with a fix to address the ever returning conflict between plugins/themes/widgets using prototype.js and mine that uses jquery.js. In addition I’ve used WPs built in script loader to prevent jquery.js being loaded more than once. This means that the widget is only compatible with WP 2.1+ so make sure to upgrade your Wordpress installation at the same time.
Enjoy!
October 19th, 2007 by Daiko
As many of you may have noticed, YouTube has a re designed player. This has caused the videos to come out of their original position in the ThickBox window. Thank you grokker for pointing that out to me. Because of that I’ve modified the way the video is loaded in the ThickBox so that it fits better. For those of you that might want to play with the width and height of the ThickBox window, you can do that in line 233 and 234 in daikosyoutubewidget.php.
Get the latest version here: Daiko’s YouTube Widget
This parameter could of course be controlled through the widget control panel so any views on that are welcomed. I like keeping it as simple as possible for the user.
October 12th, 2007 by Daiko
I’ve been working on a Google Video Widget with similar features as Daiko’s YouTube Widget. After playing with the amazing search feeds you get on Google Video I think the following features can be added:
- Display thumbnails of the videos.
- Play in ThickBox player, or Daiko’s VideoPlayer.
- One-click subscribe to feed in iTunes (will only display Google Videos as podcast episodes).
- Link to copy into other podcast readers
- Download link on individual videos (depending on availability)
One of the things I have to decide since this is a Google Video search based widget, is how to handle the YouTube and videos from other sources. It will be easiest to just take out other results, but the coolest would be if it worked with all.
Stay tuned and suggest features!
Have a nice Wordpress weekend!
