BillyBen Ring
Display links, tag, pages, and/or categories by circulars sideBar widgets, full or arrowed circles. Fully customizable. ShortCoded. Mutli Instance.
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Possibly abandoned • Last updated 5303 days ago
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Description
BB Rings can display your links, with or without their own category, your categories, your page and your posts tags. It show them by circle, full or arrowed, and it is moving!
It is quite entirely customizable, especially all colors can be indivudually choosen.You can also add the widget to your page or post with shortcode. Each instance of BB Ring are customizable (see screenshots). You can choose wether it open a new windows or keep the same for each display’s type. It use an swf integrated by swfObject2 (javascript) in the html page. The Option page also uses Javascript for a really convenient experience.. (…).
Available in English and French
Requirements
It require Javascript enabled, and Flash Player 10 or higher.
You can also visit Widget Page
note : ColorPicker javascript code were from Jan Odvarko (jscolor)
WPML Compatibility : It can display colors for different languages, based on the admin language choosen colors.
Installation
- Upload the “BillyBenRing.zip” file.
- Unzip the content
- Copy the “BillyBenRing” folder (found in “billyben-rings” folder from unzipping) to your wordpress pluging folder
- Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
- Configure the Ring’s colors on “BB Ring Colors option ” page (by the BillyBen Ring option menu)
- Configure each widget by the BillyBen Ring option menu, create and delete.
- At the widget page, add BillyBenRing to your sidebar, choose witch Widget Id it refers (sometimes the ifd of the widget 0 doesn’t appeat in choices, just create another one)
Note : For some configurations (don’t know which) the auto install by the admin panel failed (you will see the error “invalid header”), prefer an ftp installation.
Frequently Asked Questions
When I switch Language with WPML I lost data
Make sure you have defined each traduction for each item, and you have links those traduction
No “0” id appear in choices for widget choice in sidebar widget panel
Yes, i know, sometimes for some unknow reason it does’nt. just create an another one in the bbr widget configuration page.
Please Ask! Widget Page
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Changelog
2.2.4
- Fix some url bug (i.e “Create New” widget option)
- update some deprecated function
- add some missing french traduction note : thanks to Lillia for feedbacks and test
2.2.3
- Fix a bug about the “create Gradient” button with WPML multilingual configuration
2.2.2
- Add French traduction
- fix an FF bug
- fix a wpml compatibility issue
2.2.1
- add rings position (top, left, bottom, top left, etc…)
- add preview for Widget Option page
- add possibility to not display choosen item (checkbox at the left of color)
- add possibility to re organise item (simply drag n drop)
- Rings now crop text if too long
- Rings now follow mouse when over
2.1.1
- minor bug fixed
2.1.0
- Add ShortCode
- Change Menu – add specific BBR Menu
Updating from version 2.0 should not erase your configuration
2.0.0
- It is now Multi instance
- added the choice for _self or _blank for each category
Important Upgrading to this version will initialize Instance Setting but your defined colors for each category will remain the same.
1.0.1
- Add Page to the display possibility
- Turn Option page to internationalization (so can be translate)
1.0
- Adding some modification to be partially compatible with wpml plugin





