[ep-social-widget facebook="https://facebook.com" gplus="https://plus.google.com" rss="1"]

Available networks are

• facebook
• gplus
• twitter
• flickr
• youtube
• rss

Just use the one you want to display in your post/page and give it a link. The RSS option only need a 1 as value if you want that displayed. Remove any network completely to remove it from the post/page.

Download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

When enabled, this plugin will encode all images sitewide on your website. This is generally a bad idea. Should you need help tweaking the plugin further, just drop me an email. Download the plugin here.

UPDATE: This plugin is now released at the WordPress Plugin Directory. Download the plugin here.

In this update we have also integrated support for pic.twitter.com and images in the lightbox are no longer cropper and cut, say hallo to the whole image scaled down.

As usual, you find this amazing plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory and please leave a comment if you have any suggestions or just like the plugin.

The new latest version is 2.3.0.

This is how to work it:
1. Place this file in application/libraries/
2. Load or autoload it
3. In your controller, use this to validate a request:

if($this->checksum->validate()){
    # keep calm and carry on
 }else{
    # respond that the checksum was bad
 }

4. Call your controller with ?checksum= or by passing checksum as a post variable.
5. The value of checksum must be calculated correctly on the client side (IOS app/Flash/etc). Bad requests are logged in application/logs, together with the correct checksum for the request.

This is how it works:
The calucation is done like this:
sha1(‘yourcontroller/yourmethod/?fieldstring|salt);

“fieldstring” is all the post or get variables, formatted like name=value&name2=value2&etc
post and get variables must be sorted on key name (using same algorithm as php ksort).

“salt” is the CodeIgniter encryption key, set in application/config/config.php

Gotchas:
- This method allows the same request to be sent again, as long as it looks exactly the same. It’s pretty easy to make this library take current time into account, but would require that your CodeIgniter install and your external app do a little handshake on init, syncing the app’s timestamp to the server’s. Should you need this functionality, just put a time() somewhere in the sha1 in both the lib and the app.
-  We currently only handle the request methods GET and POST. If you need support for more verbs, you are probably capable of adding it yourself, heh.

(If you end up using this: please share your client code, and let me know so i can put up a link to it from here!)

You can download the latest version of the plugin over at wordpress.org

the new earthpeople.se is an experiment driven website, where we try out ideas in the background, where the actual content stays the same over time. we just love fiddling around with www, and we thought it would be a good idea to showcase this somehow.

the base of the website is a codeigniter install, with all content living inside one reusable model. using routes we can decide when to go live with a new experiments, by routing to a new controller.

in the first experiment we’ve set up a webcam, which will move around from day to day. our music machine (my old macbook pro) has been rigged with a couple of scripts to enable twitter users to decide our playlist. the playlists are logged in mysql and displayed on the website.

some fun findings when creating these scripts were:
- you can control the local spotify client by calling “open <spotify uri>” from commandline (at least in osx).
-  it’s easy to make your mac talk, from php. call “say <text to be spoken>” from within a system() call (we use this to make the mac read us whatever is playing next and who’s chosen it)
- spotify’s metadata api returns the duration of a song, which makes it easy to create a fake play queue from within php. the script playing songs is actually just an endless loop that sleep()’s the duration of the current song.

download the scripts here. bare in mind that these are just fun hacks and should maybe not be used in a production environment. oh wait…

The news in the code are:

• Shortcode for easy use directly in your post or page content.
• Timthumb resizing, so you don’t have to load large images every time.
• Displaying clicked images in a lightbox with Slimbox 2.
• Admin settings page for thumbnails and lightbox image sizes.

We hope you enjoy this plugin.

When started, it is so much easier to continue. Today we have released our very tiny social wordpress widget. It is simple, this plugin will add and widget on your site in witch you can choose to display a RSS, Twitter, Facebook or Flickr icon, linked to you profiles or thoes sites and your sites RSS feed.

More information at the WordPress plugin directory.

Update Jan 13: Added Google Plus
Updated Jan 30: Added Youtube & rewriten CSS

The plugin, with the name EP Comments Export, lets you easily export all comments and comment meta data from a specific post, page or custom post type. The export will be saved as a .csv file for you to download. To download the .csv file, just click the new icon added in the all posts/page list.

Today you can only export comments. There are plans on making it possible to import an exported .csv file to a post.

You find more information and the plugin at wordpress.org plugin directory.

When installed, this WordPress plugin will override your theme’s 404 page and instead display a random homeless dog + links back to Hundstallet and to your homepage.
Try it here! Download and contribute here! UPDATE! We have now released this plugin at the WordPress plugin directory, we recommend you to download it from there in the future, still, the git repository will be kept updated as well.

Since Hundstallet is a Swedish organisation, all copy is in Swedish.

(Hundstallet does not know about this plugin. If you are a representative for Hundstallet and like us to take this plugin down, please let us know.)