IconBuffet WordPress Plugin…
Ever since I joined IconBuffet I’ve had one of their dynamic banners sat on my blog. It did its job–displaying my avatar and my points total with a referrer link as well.
Now that I’ve been bitten by the bug (the same one that got me for Pokemon–”you gotta catch ‘em all”) I’ve upgraded my account to VIP. Because of this I wanted to add something a bit more detailed to my site.
This simple plugin let’s you embed a more detailed stats panel on your blog or homepage.
In the absence of an API for the IconBuffet, this plugin is a little bit clums. It will attempt to load your profile page and crawl the content to find your avatar, points total and badges.
The panel comes in 3 sizes, depending on how many badges you have:
- 220w x 100h if you have 12 or fewer badges
- 220w x 180h if you have between 12 and 22 badges
- 220w x 250h if you have more than 22 badges
The panel also links through to IconBuffet using your username as a referrer tag.
Installing the plugin
Installing the plugin is a simple process and begins with downloading the ZIP package.
Once you’ve downloaded the package, extract it and upload the files to your blog. Make sure you add the PHP file directly within your “wp-content/plugins” directory, while the images can be uploaded to anywhere on your site.
Once uploaded, go to your WordPress admin pages and enable the plugin.
Using the plugin
You can embed the panel in your WordPress template using the following, simple line of code:
<? d13ibcard(username, vipstatus, imagespath); ?>
Be sure to add in the correct username, VIP status and path to the included images. For example, if your username is “wallerdm” , with a VIP account, and you uploaded the images to “http://www.yoursite.com/images/ib” then the plugin code would be:
<? d13ibcard(”wallerdm”, “true”, “http://www.yoursite.com/images/ib”); ?>
If you weren’t a VIP then you’d use:
<? d13ibcard(”wallerdm”, “false”, “http://www.yoursite.com/images/ib”); ?>
This will display a snazzy, dynamic panel showing your latest points total, avatar and badges.
wallerdm
Support
If you experience any trouble using the plugin, just leave a comment on this post and I’ll see what I can do.
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