<p>This is a plugin that brings up a little preview of a site into the widget-less sidebar. If you want to use this in a widget-enabled theme, give <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogintroduction-wordpress-widget/" title="blogintroduction-wordpress-widget" rel="ugc">blogintroduction-wordpress-widget</a> a chance. The link is chosen by random out of the links in the WordPress link-manager. You can specify a single link-category or use all categories for the random-link-base.</p>
<p>You can also decide to show invisible/private links. This is for the case you want to show links as a preview you don’t want to show in the linkroll.</p>
<p>If you want and if there is a description for the link done in the link-description-field it would be shown.</p>
<p>A refreshing via AJAX could be enabled with a specific time (in seconds) when the next thumbnail would be loaded.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="http://www.websnapr.com/" title="Website Thumbnais For Your Site" rel="nofollow ugc">websnapr</a>-Service for generating the thumbnail-images. Keep their <a href="http://www.websnapr.com/terms/" title="General Terms and Conditions for Websnapr" rel="nofollow ugc">term of use</a> in mind. You should get an API-Key for free from there to use this widget and get more then 80 snapshots per hour, with key it would be about 340 per hour (250.000 a month).</p>
<p>Since Version 0.3.0 you could also use the image-link stored in the link-manager for containing the link to the preview-image. If no link is given the widget would use websnapr as fall back.</p>
<p>If you want to leave a feedback, feel free to do this on the <a href="http://blog.huebel-online.de/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin/" title="Home of blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin - Blog of Kim Huebel" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s homepage</a> of the author’s blog. Though the pages are in german, comments in english are wellcome, too.</p>


blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin

Shows a thumbnail of a blogroll/linkroll-entry by random

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<p>Blog Introduction displays an introduction (heading and/or contents of certain<br />
page) before posts. Intro content comes from a designated page, please see below for examples.</p>
<p>An introduction can appear on your</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>home page</strong> (from page whose URL – aka permalink aka slug – is, by default, ‘blog-introduction’),</li>
<li><strong>category</strong> archive pages (intro from page ‘yourcategoryurl-cat-intro’, e.g. category has ‘widgets’ slug, then intro comes from page that has slug ‘widgets-cat-intro’),</li>
<li><strong>tag</strong> archive pages (intro from page ‘yourtagurl-tag-intro’, e.g. tag is ‘blue-widgets’, then use ‘blue-widgets-tag-intro’ as intro page slug), and</li>
<li><strong>author</strong> archive pages (intro from page ‘yourauthorurl-author-intro’, e.g. author is ‘jsmith’, then use ‘jsmith-author-intro’ as intro page slug).</li>
</ul>
<p>Hide these special pages by making them private.</p>
<p>Plugin options allow for you to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Define who sees the introduction (everyone / logged in users only / visitors only).</li>
<li>Choose which parts (heading and/or content) you want to show.</li>
<li>Change the heading wrapper tag. </li>
<li>Define style (CSS) for various parts of intro.</li>
<li>Change where the home page’s intro is taken from, either by page id or its permalink. </li>
<li>Define home page’s the intro (instead of using a specific page).</li>
<li>Disable intro on home page and only use it on archive pages.</li>
</ul>
<p>Default output (for home page):</p>
<pre><code><div id='blog_introduction' class='blog-introduction-container'>
    <div id='blog_introduction_heading' class='blog-introduction-heading'>
        <h2><span></span></h2>
    </div>
    <div id='blog_introduction_content' class='blog-introduction-content'>
        
    </div>
</div>
</code></pre>
<p><strong>If you use the plugin, please rate it at WP Plugin Directory. Thanks!</strong></p>

Blog Introduction

Blog Introduction inserts a static intro before posts (on homepage or archive pages). Introduction content is taken from a designated page.

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