Airliners Widget

This widget allows you to display an Airliners.net aviation picture on your website. You can easily choose between a random picture, the “Top Of Yesterday” picture, or a specific picture by specifying the picture ID in the widget’s parameters.

The widget uses a class called “widget_airliners_widget” allowing you to enforce some rendering, as the default block provided by Airliners.net is black with white writing.

Included is airliners-widget.css style sheet that shows how to get the block with gray writing and transparent background. Feel free to edit this file to suit your needs !

This widget comes out of the box with french and german translations.

This widget also supports shortcodes !

Just add a [airliners] shortcode to any of you posts and you’ll get a random Airliners.net picture by default !
The shortcode supports two parameters : imgtype and imgid.
* imgtype indicates what type of picture you want to show, it can take one of these values : random, yesterday, picture
* imgid sets the id of the specific picture you want to show, if ‘picture’ has been set to imgtype

Shortcode usage samples :
[airliners imgtype=’yesterday’]
Displays the top of yesterday’s pictures.

[airliners imgtype=’picture’ imgid=’123456′]
Displays the picture corresponding to id ‘123456’.

1. Upload the zipfile to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Extract and remove it
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Drag the new widget to desired sidebar, choose a title (or not) for the widget and select the image type.

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   Admin side of things.

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   Sample rendering.

1.1.1

• Tested up to WordPress 4.2.2

1.1

• Added translation capabilities
• Included french and german translations

1.0.1

• Tested compatibility up to WordPress 3.9

1.0

• Initial release