<p>This is a widget that brings up a little preview of a site into the sidebar. If you want to use this in a widget-less / static sidebar, give <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin/" title="blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin">blogintroduction-wordpress-plugin</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 widget 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 translate the plugin, feel free to do it! Since Version 0.2.0 the Output is fully internationalized.</p>
<p>To see the widget working in a production-environment, visit the <a href="http://blog.huebel-online.de/" title="Blog of Kim Huebel" rel="nofollow ugc">author’s blog</a>.</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-widget/" title="Home of blogintroduction-wordpress-widget - 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

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

Atanas Yonkov

Vlastimir Samolov

<p>Create interactive step-by-step introduction tours/tutorials/walkthrough guides for your admin users or content creators through a friendly user admin interface. Inspired by the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/components/guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide</a> Gutenberg component that pops up when you open the Block editor for the first time. Customize the default welcome message or add as many custom guides as you want. Maybe you are a WordPress agency or a freelancer who needs a simple and user-friendly way to showcase to your clients the cms options that you have built in the WordPress admin? Or you work with an editorial team and you want to make the publishing experience as easy and smooth as possible? This plugin will empower you to display custom welcome messages and tips to your admin users in a fun, easy and much more interactive way.</p>
<h4>Plugin Options</h4>
<p>You can create, edit and delete guides and add as many sub-guides (popups) to them as you wish via the Guides tab in the WordPress admin. You can choose whether to display a list of all the guides inside the post editor, page editor or only on a specific custom post type. If you wish, you can also remove or override the default WordPress Block Editor welcome tips.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IfIbsKaFeH0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>How it Works</h4>
<p>Navigate to the Guides tab in the WordPress admin and add a new Guide. You can then assign sub-guides (steps) to the guide you have just created. Just add a new guide and link it to the parent guide via the Page Attributes tab from the bottom right corner in the Block Editor’s sidebar. In this way, the latter guide will become a sub-guide to the first guide (parent guide) that you have created. Now, when you create (or edit) a post or a page in the WordPress admin, you will see a new “Welcome Guide” tab in the Block Editor’s sidebar, right under the Status & Visibility tab. Once you expand it, you will see a list with all the parent guides that you have created. When you click on a parent guide, you will see a tour with all the sub-guides that you have associated to the parent guide via the Page Attributes tab.</p>


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