Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category
January 26th, 2009 by Daiko
For some months now I’ve neglected my faithful users with absolutly no updates and/or bug fixes. For me the widgets have been a leisure project with no plans to use them commercially nor as a career change.
I’m still uncertain whether I’ll get any spare time to pick up where I left in the forseeable future. On the other hand it is comforting to know that the code is out there for anyone to improve and develop further.
Look at this as a small sign of life from me, and an open invitation to those of you feeling tempted to carry on where I left. It is actually fun if you have the time and very rewarding to watch the download numbers just ticking away.
I will continue to write, and keep the site running so let’s just keep in touch.
Daiko
October 6th, 2008 by Daiko
Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Wikipedia, MySpace and others have simply revolutionized the way we act online and socialize on the web. From regarding the web as a place to publish your content for others to read (if they find it), the web has truly become a place where people meet and interact.
The connection and interaction between people on these sites and with these tools has just amazed us all. It is slowly but steadily putting the individual and its personal features center, and instead of focusing on what they may have recently published (a hurdle for many), the individual is right there, able and ready to share the things they know with people they know.
The hurdle to share things with a more focused group of people, whether being relatives, schoolmates, former collegues or friends, is much lower than just throwing it out in cyberspace to a bunch (if you’re lucky) of anonymous readers. Suddenly the web becomes more humane, simply because sites become people.
The one group lagging behind here are Governments. Few Governments, and their agencies, have taken on board the obvious challenge of, through social networks, actually using the possibility to engage in a direct dialogue with their constituency. The mantra should of course be “Follow the Audience“. Traditional media simply isn’t enough if you need to reach your audience. Simply because a lot of them aren’t there like they used to be.
Continue reading ‘The Social Network as a Government Vehicle’
June 23rd, 2008 by Daiko
Daiko’s YouTube Widget is now available in norwegian, translated by yours truly….
In addition there is a pot-file included for other enthusiasts to translate it into their languages. Please send me a copy of your .po and .mo files if you do so for inclusion in the official download. And don’t hesitate to report any problems…..
As always! Have fun!
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.
