delicious tagroll shortcode

The delicious tagroll for WordPress plugin adds a new shortcode to WordPress, the [delicious_tagroll] shortcode. The shortcode creates a tag cloud from your public delicious tags.

Live demo: http://soderlind.no/bookmarks/

For more information, please see the plugin home page

Requirement

• PHP: 5.2.x or newer

Manual Installation

• Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/delicious-tagroll-shortcode/
• Activate the plugin

Automatic Installation

• On your WordPress blog, open the Dashboard
• Go to Plugins->Install New
• Search for “delicious tagroll”
• Click on install to install the delicious tagroll shortcode

WPMU Installation

• If you want to change the shortcode defaults, edit the ps_delicious_tagroll.php file
• Upload the file to wp-content/mu-plugins/

Usage

• Add the [delicious_tagroll username="delicious username"] shortcode to a post or page, see screenshot and the plugin home page

Parameters

• username=”delicious username” (the only mandatory parameter, if you forget this parameter, my tagroll will be displayed)
• title=”tagroll title” (default =”My Delicious Tags”, use ” ” if you don’t want a tagroll title)
• count=”number of tags” (default=”100″)
• sort=”alpha or freq” (default = “alpha”)
• showcounts=”true or false” (default = “false”, show tag counts)
• mincount (default mincount=”10″), eg. show only tags with 10 or more links
• minfont=”12″
• maxfont=”35″

What are shortcodes?

Shortcode, a “shortcut to code”, makes it easy to add funtionality to a page or post. When a page with a shortcode is saved, WordPress execute the linked code and embedds the output in the page.

Writing your own shortcode plugin

• Smashing Magazine has a nice (as allways) article about Mastering WordPress shortcodes. The article has several examples you can use as a starting point for writing your own.
• At codplex, you’ll find the Shortcode API documented
• Also, feel free to use this plugin as a template for you own shortcode plugin

1. 

   Demo

2. 

   Adding the [delicious_tagroll] shortcode to a page

2.2.2

• Tested & found compatible with WP 4.7.

2.2.1

• Change feed URL to feeds.del.icio.us

2.2.0

• Add scripts to shortcode only when the shortcode is used.
• Update plugin for WordPress Coding Standards.
• Tested & found compatible with WP 4.5.

2.1.4

• Tested in WordPress 4.3

2.1.3

• Tested in WordPress 3.9, bumped version number
• The plugin no longer supports PHP 4.x

2.1.2

• Bugfix, You need this version if you are using PHP prior to version 5.3

2.1.1

• Replaced LastRSS with WordPress built in methods and set/get transient for caching. See function ps_delicious_tagroll_get_tags() in ps_delicious_tagroll.php
• Added a new optional attribute:
  • tags (default empty), used to filter which tags you’d like to display eg. tags=”javascript,jquery,nodejs”

2.0

• Delicious removed their javascript feed so I had to do a total rewrite
  • Creates the tag cloud server-side (good for SEO) and lets you change the look and feel using the included style sheet.
  • Uses the Delicious RSS feed API
  • Caches the feed for one hour. Delicious might block you if you access their feed API too often.
• Some attributes are removed from the shortcode (you can change these using the ps_delicious_tagroll.css style sheet in the plugin directory):
  • mincolor
  • maxcolor
  • flow
• Also removed the attributes
  • showname
  • showadd
  • icon
• Added a new attribute:
  • mincount (default mincount=”10″), eg. show only tags with 10 or more links

1.1

• changed parameter name=”true” to showname=”true”
• added missing parameter showcounts=”false”

1.0

• initial release